This week was full of excitement! Sorry that my last letter was not up to par with all the rest, but this week should definitely make up for it!! So last PDay was a little frustrating. We went to our ward building where we normally email, but the WiFi wasn't working. We fixed the modem and did all the tech- savvy stuff but nothing would work. We then went to the English branch building 5 miles away to email on our Ipads in our hot and humid car in the parking lot because we don't have keys to the building and the WiFi was only in one little spot. We couldn't go to any library because it was Labor Day, ugh! We then went back to the church to play some basketball because we wanted to do something productive for Pday and let me just tell you, we were amazing. Normally we play pretty bad but we were all like Jimmer, everything was going in. If a church ball team was made up of us... wow. JK it was way fun though, I am always the shortest one out of everyone who are all 6 feet or taller. I also decided that I wanted to start eating more healthy personally because the dinners we eat are not healthy. I bought super healthy bread (that's disgusting) and instead of little snacks or something, I bought carrots. (without ranch mind you). Let me tell you how good that plan worked out for me. The carrot thing worked out for about the first day, after that I was sick of them. The bread I thought was going to be good and that I could stomach it because it has all this protein and fiber in it, good right? Wrong. It tasted like bread soaked in vinegar to make it taste like pickles or something. It is the New York style rye bread at Wally, never get it, it is terrible. I am also starting to get tired of my tuna sandwiches, time to branch out!!
We also had a temple service day. We were told to be there by 7:30 in the morning so we left around 6am to get to downtown LA right? only 24 miles ok ok... wrong. Traffic was so bad. It took us till 8:30 to arrive at the temple.2 1/2 hours to go 24 miles! We could bike faster than that!! The service was really fun. There are apartment buildings by the Visitor Center and the temple that the VC sisters use and also the Senior missionary couples. They are remodeling it so they had us move furniture in and out all day. after 4 hours we were done. It was a lot of fun, I love the missionaries in my zone, they are so chill.
We ate dinner with this family that is just so humble. They gave us this tuna fish salad with corn and lemonade. The salad was really good and the lemonade, let's just say the lemonade tasted like watered down medicine. We had a lesson with this investigator who is just a handful. We always try to share something spiritual with him, but he always gets off topic. He basically told us that he knows what he needs to do in order to be baptized, he's just 'waiting' for the right moment. This investigator (V) also has received many answers to prayers. He's told us that a lot of the time he will pray about having the missionaries come by and that day we stop by. Now how much more evidence does someone need in order to be flippin baptized?? Ugh. He basically told us that when we come over that he doesn't want to talk about church stuff, just about 'normal' stuff. ya, right, peace out bro!
We ate dinner with this lady named M L. She is a less active because she doesn't come to church. She doesn't come to church because she is pregnant. She has a really strong testimony about the Church and the Book of Mormon, everything. She just needs a little support from the ward. Elder Parker and I were thinking that maybe the Relief Society could visit her or stop by and bring food over for her, we'll see how that turns out.
I will send pictures of what we ate with M, it was sooo good!
We were told during our weekly planning (Thursday) that Elder Parker and I were going to give the training at DM this week. We planned the lesson, found scriptures, told some jokes, and are pretty sure that nobody fell asleep and it was a really good training. A training is basically a talk to a bunch of missionaries, which is pretty easy. We stopped by this investigator named R A. She is super catholic and has a lot of virgin marias in her house. We decided since she hasn't come to church in a while to talk about the 10 commandments (to talk about the sabbath day and to go to church right?) well after we read the 10 commandments, we asked her. "Which of the 10 commandments do you think you could work on?" She told us the 2nd. She said that she has too many idols in her house of the Virgin. We were thinking, well ya, uh, ok. She told us that she was going to get rid of a couple well WAM! she started to tell her life story. Basically she's done a lot of bad stuff in her life and she is very thankful for her husband who loves her and ya. We invited to her to come to church, but she didn't come this week.
So DM (sorry my thoughts are just all over the place today). since it was 9/11 we decided to sing the national anthem to start DM. It was pretty funny because we have an Elder from Canada and from Ecuador in our District. However, it was probably the best way to start DM, not gonna lie. We took pictures afterwards of the district so thats all 8 of us.
One of our investigators, W A, she started to read the BOM!! its really cool because she is the one that is pregnant that we went to the VC with. She tells us that she is wanting to go to church after she has her baby in like 2 weeks. We read with her, its hard for her to understand sometimes, but her intentions are super sincere. Elder Parker received a package from his family and all that was in it was a big thing of Nesquik ahahah. He can't drink milk plain because he hates the taste. I came to find out that he is a germaphobe. He does not like it when someone touches his stuff and he is always washing his hands, like after the washing the dishes he has to wash his hands again ahah. Sunday was pretty intense.
I am going to have a portion of the letter about E below so bare with me. At Stake conference they reorganized the stake presidency. It was really funny at some parts during the meeting because of the translation. When they said the vote of thanks thing for the presidency and the sustaining of the new, the translation was behind so one latina lady raised her hand to oppose rather than sustain the presidency, WOOPS! her daughter forced her hand down so that she didn't 'oppose' the vote, it was pretty funny. She also would laugh at a joke after it was said in english ahahah ooooooh translation stories... soo good.
Tuesday was when we needed to have the baptismal interview for E (the really old investigator). He had to have a special interview from President Vincent of the LA mission because there were some things in his life that needed to be talked about. We were really concerned. After the interview President Vincent walks out and says that everything is in order and that E is going to be a good member. We were so excited. E also brought his large copy of the triple combination, because he is blind and he can't see a regular print. When he would sit down Elder Parker would carry the book and E would always ask him 'for his book'. it was soooo adorable. We visited E on Thursday to teach him the last lesson and to ask him who he would want to have baptize him. He told us that so that he doesn't offend either one of us, that he was going to flip a coin. We went back to our car to get a penny. He flipped it and the luck fell on me! I was chosen by fate to baptize E. We all decided that Elder Parker was going to help because E is a little bit top heavy (has a huge beer belly) and really bad balance, so we did a baptism with two people in the font with the investigator (see the jump suit that Elder Parker had to wear, it looks like it is from the 80's). Anywho, we made the baptismal program on Saturday and brought it by to E. He said he wanted to sing the two hymns that we had put on the program. He said he wanted to practice them so that he sounded good for his baptism. The tender mercy of this visit was that he was suppose to go to the hospital earlier that week to check on a possible 'bola' or tumor that is in his stomach. He never went to the hospital which is a blessing so that he could make it to his baptize. On Sunday we had a ride for him to go to Stake Conference but when we called him he told us that he had been vomiting all night and that he didn't feel good enough to go to conference. We told him to rest for his baptism and that all would be ok. The baptism started late. It was really hard to get baptismal clothing for E because we don't have any in our building because we don't have a font and the guy who had keys to the jumpsuits in the other building wouldn't give it to us. The font also had termites in it. But when all was said and done, E was baptized!! it was really cool.
I AM BEING TRANSFERRED!! I am going to the Palos Verdes zone with Elder Hunsaker (the Elder that I went on an exchange in my first area) and I will be a senor companion with him because he has a lot of anxiety problems so i'm excited. Also Elder chidester is my DL and Elder Wheelwright is now a ZL in that zone too. All my comps are following me! Elder Parker is the new DL and his is going to train a new Elder. Elder Parker was also in the area that I am going to last transfer so this is going to be fun!!
Also, my watch broke. The every day one, not the fancy one the Charlie and Emily got me, Dad's watch broke. The band ripped. So if you could maybe get a ghetto looking watch that is super durable that would be wonderful. I have also not been able to find the hair gel that I use (the surf paste) so... ya that too ahaha. I think I can last a couple weeks. And maybe some letters from y'all.
Love you all
Les amo,
Elder Roberts
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