Week 91

So his last week has been cool. Here are some redeeming qualities of
Clearlake. The stars here are really, really pretty and full. Another
redeeming quality is that there is a member who washes and presses all
of our clothes for us. We just drop them off on Sunday nights and we
pick them up Mondays!

So in Clearlake there is a part of town called the Avenues. It's not
like the Salt Lake City Avenues that are nice and pretty. The Avenues
is a huge part of town with lots of dirt roads and a couple thousand
people live there. There are only two roads in the whole city that go
in or out of the avenues. 90% of the people there grow marijuana.
There are no streetlights and at night there are dogs that roam the
streets, if you can call them dogs. They are pit-Bulls and or German
shepards mixed with Wolves. That's not a joke, there are half wolves
roaming the streets. It's like if you mixed Fall Out 3 and Borderlands
you would pretty much be in the Avenues, but since I'm a missionary I
can only carry a knife.

We found a super cool lady named Reyna, she's Christian but doesn't
have a church. She let us in, we gave her a Book of Mormon and she
said that she would read it and she said that when she doesn't work on
Sunday she'll be a church! We also found a different lady named
Adriana, she's was funny. Less solid than Reyna, but we'll try her
again. I don't know why, but middle aged Mexican Women are my
specialty.

We had a fast as a zone to find families. To break the fast we had a
super sweet break the fast. We made quesadillas and cream cheese
stuffed bacon wrapped habaneros. It was way fun!

Basically I'm just finding a lot of joy in the members and
investigators. They are nice and it's been good so far!

Love you guys!

Nick