Week 62

Dear Family,

Well, it's been a weird week to say the least! I guess we'll go from
Tuesday, where we did the best service thing of all time. There is a
Christian revival place where every Tuesday they give out food to
homeless/ needy people. We help out every Tuesday from 3-4. It's
probably the best thing ever. To start off, we sing songs like This
Little Light of Mine and such, and then we do introductions. So the
preacher's wife gets up and says "We are so thankful for the Elders
who are here with us today. Everybody say God Bless!" "God Bless!" "Elder Foster" "Elder Foster" and so on until we're done introducing ourselves. So then anyone who wants to share stuff can, and so, for example, Elder Dascomb gets up and starts sharing some stuff from Psalms, and everyone in there while he is preaching "AMEN!" Or "HALLELUJAH!!" And all in all. It was just a fun experience.

Then! Exchanges on Wednesday to Thursday. On Thursday we weekly planned because on Friday- more service! There was this thing here called CDA cares, which was like this huge free dentistry clinic thing. All volunteer, a bunch of dentists from all over California. I saw Brother Perez from Napa again, which was cool! It went from 5AM-6PM. It was a loooong day. But fun. And wet, because it was raining and we were escorts. So I talked to a ton of new people Friday. We also saw all of Fairfield Zone and Napa zone, which has some of my favorite missionaries, like Hermana LeMmon and Hernandez, and Elders Tepox and Despain. It was way fun. And according to all the people I talked to from Fairfield (missionaries and people I was escorting) Fairfield is getting dangerous. I guess there have been a lot of shootings in the last few weeks. I was also translating for all of the Spanish people which was a lot of fun. Helping them fill out paperwork, helping them communicate with the dentists. I really enjoyed all of it!

Saturday we finished weekly planning. It's been kind of a slow week, seeing as I didn't really get too much time in the area. But I'm getting the hang of it, and I love Vallejo! Last night we went to an investigator's house and he was having a BBQ with some family. We shared a message, and answered a lot of questions. It was fun. The investigator also promised me that after my mission, if I come back I have permission to marry his daughter. I told him if she got baptized I would consider it (don't worry, I'm not really considering it.).

Also, as I'm sure you guys swam the Diaz De Leon family came over to Vallejo (it's like 10 minutes from Cordelia) and took Elder Minkler and I out to lunch!! I just love them so much. I can't wait for you guys to come here for their sealing a meet them. They are the greatest! Best recent converts of all time.

Hopefully more to update next week! It's been a good week though. Love you guys and miss you a ton!