Wow being on bike is so not fun haha. I think we are two of the most
> frequent McDonalds $1 beverages customers in the entire world haha.
> This week, at the beginning was a little slow and very tedious.
> Transfers were on Monday and they pulled the sisters out of our ward
> and threw in a training companionship, Elder Aguilar and his greenie
> Elder Vincent. So Monday we had to go to transfers to pick up Elder
> Aguilar and all his crap, sit through the transfer day rah rah pep
> talk and move all of Elder Aguilar's stuff into his new apartment. It
> was not the most exciting p-day of all time to say the least. However,
> we did go bowling at Tustin Lanes afterwards for dollarmania. And I
> had a great game, a zone best 218. It was awesome. Elder Walker is a
> good little bowler as well, so we were just putting on a show in our
> shirt and tie (Lance Storm lightning bolt tie for me, needless to
> say). Elder Aguilar spent the night in our apartment, and on tuesday
> we went to go pick up Elder Vincent. He is an alright kid, super
> hyper. Doesn't speak a word of understandable Spanish haha, but he
> loves to practice. Its really funny haha. Kinda like Elder Calhoun
> from The Best Two Years. But anyways, the rest of the week was full of
> sweaty necklines and trips to McDucks to cool off. We didn't have a
> lot of success during the week, just a lot of miles put on our bikes.
> But then on the weekend we had a really interesting series of events.
> We were riding down Harbor when as we were flying past a
> semi-transient car dealership, the owner flags us down and tells to
> come get a hot dog off their barbeque. Who could resist right? So we
> stopped and started to talk and turns out that this dude grew up right
> next to the Colonia Juarez in Mexico, so he knows all about the
> Church. His name is Carlos. We invite him to the our temple tour in a
> couple of week, he is thrilled. We teach him and the two kids working
> the grill. Get return appointments. Justice. Then another old Mexican
> dude pulls up for a hotdog and Carlos starts to do a missionary
> contact on our behalf. Crazy. The old guy his name is Juan. He seems
> pretty excited and invites us back to see him the next day, which is
> Sunday. So after church, we go to see Juan and this is where it gets
> pretty interesting. We go and teach him a pretty solid lesson, then as
> we are finishing up, this lady walks in the room and says "oiga elder,
> deme su tarjeta ya ando con prisa" Wait hold up. I ask "como sabia que
> yo era elder" because people don't usually refer to us by our correct
> title so naturally. She responds "porque soy miembro. Hace 2 anos que
> no estoy activa. Cuando vivia en Chicago daba a comer a los elders
> todo el tiempo" Woah no way. What a weird chain of events. By the time
> we left, the lady was super interesting in listening to us, coming
> back to church and having us teach her kids. Crazy huh? No doubt we
> were right where we were supposed to be. Pretty neat.
>> 3 good things about the week?
>> 1. Bowled a 218 last monday after email. SCORE!
>> 2. Made some ridiculous contacts this weekend. So cool. I'll tell you
>> more later.
>> 3. Got rid of the sisters. Now we have another companionship of elders
>> in the ward. Elder Aguilar from Mexico/Arizona, and Elder Vicent the
>> greenie from Brigham City.
>>
>> Something funny that happened?
>> Elder Walker took a tumble on his bike this morning on our way to a
>> member's house to do laundry. He went down, and I followed up with an
>> amazing Anchorman reference "wow that was a terrific little spill
>> there!" and he just cracked up. It was funny.
>>
>> Any luck pawning your extra typewriter and bike on some other poor Elder?
>> I did manage to sell the typewriter for 40 to Elder Curtin. He was
>> thrilled. The bike has a few interested customers. I think I'll just
>> sell it for $100 just to get rid of it.
>>
>> Investigators?
>> Juan-I'll tell you more about him in my letter.
>> Yesenia-Done. Not interested anymore. Not sure why. Oh well.
>> Carlos-From the mexican mormon colony in chichihua. Never got
>> baptized. Super interested. We'll see what happens.
>> bout it.
>>
>> What does President Bowen usually talk to you about in your
>> interviews? You said he does the talking and you listen.
>> A lot of stuff. He mostly wants to make sure that I am ready to come
>> home in a year. He has told me multiple times that "we really are here
>> to get ready to go home" so its kinda interesting.
>>
>> Why did you think that you and Elder Walker might get separated and
>> that you would be a trainer again? Are you happy you two are still
>> working together?
>> Oh of course. I just thought it was a possibly. He has been here his
>> entire mission.
>>
>> There have been several news shows on TV lately about Mormons because
>> of Mitt Romney and the convention being this week. Have you had any
>> curious people because of that?
>> I haven't heard anything about that this week. But I have heard
>> plently about Bro. Romney.
>>
>> Was the weather any better for you last week? It looks like it is
>> going to be warm for you the next few days. Make sure you stay
>> hydrated!!!!
>> Oh yes it stinks so bad haha. Thank goodness for McDonalds' dollar
>> beverages
>> haha
