My week has been really good ; not really too busy but we worked hard and I have learned a lot. Brawley is always hot but it has cooled down to about 98 degrees sometimes it still gets into the 100's but not as often. Now it is just really humid and that kinda is not good either. People are coming back, but a lot of people didn't keep the appointments they set up with us this week, so it was kinda frustrating. Not extremely bad but still not what i like to do. Trying to find things to do instead of the appointment is hard to do on the spot. I don't have to go to the ward council anymore. The ward mission leader came back into town so he goes for us.
The interview with the mission president was good, we talked in Spanish for a little bit, and then we talked in English cause i could only understand parts of his questions. He just asked how my Spanish was coming, and asked if i was doing anything that would not let me have the spirit. I told him about the trouble i have with my companion not wanting to exercise in the morning and he said that is always a problem. He said i will get the hang of things. He asked me if i know my area and i told him yes, so maybe i will get a different companion next week? either way i will be happy.
I will have to go on a country rock band tour with you guys when I get back. You all will be way better than me by that time.
That is awesome that you are getting bikes. Are they good ones? The ones you got last time were good but the one I road here for that one day of exchanges was very easy to ride. It seemed like I didn't have to work as hard to move as I did on your purple one. Janel is always going to be the more healthy one of the family. I do a little here and there, but she keeps up with it more. Running a 5 K just doesn't sound at all fun to me. AT ALL., but good for her :)
Stockton and Miranda are awesome. I love that family, they are some of my best friends in the ward. Did a lot of people come to the neighborhood party?
The swimming party is always a good way to start off the school year and stuff :) i miss swimming. I can do it later though :)
I feel like i am growing a little bit in the gospel, but a majority of it is that i just realize how much i already know. People know a lot more about the gospel but they just never try to talk about it. I am fine living on my own. I don't seem to have any problems. There has been a lot of grass hoppers around lately and that isn't cool they are ugly things lol. But everything seems to be going really good. Scriptures are always amazing and you learn more things every time you study. Language is slow. but its coming.
My knee is good; headaches i don't have any. The only time me knee has given me problems is trying to sit on the floor. So i just don't do it very often.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Mailing Address
Elder Clint Joseph Hall
California San Diego Mission
7404 Armstrong Place
San Diego, CA 92111
California San Diego Mission
7404 Armstrong Place
San Diego, CA 92111
August 17, 2009
Your missionary is doing great! I am just working and trying to find people to teach. It is so hot everyone leaves the town until school starts, which is in a couple weeks so that will be good.
Spanish is OK, pretty funny story with that. We went and started teaching a guy named Tao, who we found the day before outside his apartment raking leaves. He only speaks Spanish, so, I was sitting there listening to Elder Kingsford teaching him in Spanish and understood that he was talking about the atonement. So, I kind of jumped in and said "Jusucristo pega por pescados" which I guess translated into "Jesus Christ hits for fishing". I meant to say Jusucristo paga por nuestro los pecados", very different, cause that means Jesus Christ paid for our sins. So Elder Kingsford had to correct me cause Tao got very confused. I laughed really hard after we left and told what I said. Good Times!
The bugs are fixed. The bugs in the bathroom were coming through the walls because we didn't have base boards around the bottom of the wall. They came and put some on, so it is fine now. I have only seen one cockroach and it was dead. We have a pretty clean apartment, so it's not bad.
I bought a flash drive the other day, because, there have been pictures and stuff I wanted to save. So, I used my America First Account. I also bought a Rubik's Cube. I can actually do it now. We started using it to teach a lesson, because we were teaching a couple of little kids so, We figured it would be fun and help explain it better.
On P-day we mainly just go to the church to email and then we play basketball or soccer, or go eat lunch some place. The swap meet was pretty lame. Just a lot of junk and stolen stuff.
I eat a lot of Mexican food, and a lot of spaghetti. I still don't like spaghetti by the way. lol Especially when it is Mexican spaghetti because it has mushrooms and a lot of peppers and just things I don't want to eat, because they are bad for you. I eat it anyway, but I am not happy about it. I also eat a lot of beans or at least I have been this week. Still don't like those either. The newest thing I have tried has been Chiles Rellenos, which is a pepper stuffed full of cheese. They were OK, but if they had shredded beef or shredded chicken it in, it would have been better.
Looks like Robintino's was a good time!
Spanish is OK, pretty funny story with that. We went and started teaching a guy named Tao, who we found the day before outside his apartment raking leaves. He only speaks Spanish, so, I was sitting there listening to Elder Kingsford teaching him in Spanish and understood that he was talking about the atonement. So, I kind of jumped in and said "Jusucristo pega por pescados" which I guess translated into "Jesus Christ hits for fishing". I meant to say Jusucristo paga por nuestro los pecados", very different, cause that means Jesus Christ paid for our sins. So Elder Kingsford had to correct me cause Tao got very confused. I laughed really hard after we left and told what I said. Good Times!
The bugs are fixed. The bugs in the bathroom were coming through the walls because we didn't have base boards around the bottom of the wall. They came and put some on, so it is fine now. I have only seen one cockroach and it was dead. We have a pretty clean apartment, so it's not bad.
I bought a flash drive the other day, because, there have been pictures and stuff I wanted to save. So, I used my America First Account. I also bought a Rubik's Cube. I can actually do it now. We started using it to teach a lesson, because we were teaching a couple of little kids so, We figured it would be fun and help explain it better.
On P-day we mainly just go to the church to email and then we play basketball or soccer, or go eat lunch some place. The swap meet was pretty lame. Just a lot of junk and stolen stuff.
I haven't had any chocolate milk yet, but last week I did drink a whole gallon of milk; actually, it was more like 3 days. This morning when we went shopping, I bought 2 gallons to get through the whole week. If, I come back weighing more, it will be because of the milk.
I eat a lot of Mexican food, and a lot of spaghetti. I still don't like spaghetti by the way. lol Especially when it is Mexican spaghetti because it has mushrooms and a lot of peppers and just things I don't want to eat, because they are bad for you. I eat it anyway, but I am not happy about it. I also eat a lot of beans or at least I have been this week. Still don't like those either. The newest thing I have tried has been Chiles Rellenos, which is a pepper stuffed full of cheese. They were OK, but if they had shredded beef or shredded chicken it in, it would have been better.
Looks like Robintino's was a good time!
Monday, August 10, 2009
August 10, 2009
My week was pretty good, with the baptisms we had last week, we kinda lost our teaching pool of our regular people, so we started to focus more on finding than on just teaching. We found 4 new investigators, and one lady seems to be really interested, and she Loved that we have a prophet, so that is always a step in right direction. I try speaking Spanish especially at church because people know that i am just learning, but i don't know very many words yet? so its hard. I can pretty much say a prayer in Spanish and say a really simple testimony. Like really really simple, but its a start.
The church has a pretty good air conditioning system, but it was broken for the first 2 weeks, so yesterday it was really great cause it was back on. It is actually cold and i am glad to have my suit jacket on when we go to church. I haven't had to say anything in church yet, except yesterday I gave 2 girls the holy ghost. The 2 older ones we baptized and elder Kingsford confirmed the other 1. The ward that we serve in is pretty small. There is 4 of us serving in one ward. But People say a lot of people move to San Diego during the summer and that it will get a little more busy in a month when school starts back up.
The way the church is set up is kinda weird because of the Spanish population. So it is an English speaking ward, but they have translators that translate everything into Spanish, and the Hispanic people just wear headphones the whole time. What is also interesting is when we go to Sunday school, there is an English and a separate Spanish Sunday school, so that is interesting, sometimes we go to the Spanish class sometimes we go to the English class, it just depends on the investigators that show up.
In your ward have you done away with PEC? Yesterday was the last day that we were supposed to have PEC. They changed it and are now having a Ward Council every week, on a week day. Just wondering if that is new for just out here or everywhere. They said they have had told to start this new way of things about a month ago, but are just doing it now.
The members are ok at giving us people to teach, but not really. They are good at fellowshiping people though. They are all over the new people when they come to church, trying to get to know them and get them involved with the church. A lady that got baptized a month ago is probably one of the best ones. She wont let people walk away from her. She is really loud but one of the nicest ladies i have met.
I have worked in some gardens one time, but that was about it. Well elder Kingsford and i also helped some people set up their computers and get things going cause they didn't know how to do anything. And we wanted them to look at the mormon.org
Today we started playing Hacky sack. I am so bad at that. I kick it really far away or just miss it. But there are some people that are really good. I think i will stick to basketball and racquetball.
The church has a pretty good air conditioning system, but it was broken for the first 2 weeks, so yesterday it was really great cause it was back on. It is actually cold and i am glad to have my suit jacket on when we go to church. I haven't had to say anything in church yet, except yesterday I gave 2 girls the holy ghost. The 2 older ones we baptized and elder Kingsford confirmed the other 1. The ward that we serve in is pretty small. There is 4 of us serving in one ward. But People say a lot of people move to San Diego during the summer and that it will get a little more busy in a month when school starts back up.
The way the church is set up is kinda weird because of the Spanish population. So it is an English speaking ward, but they have translators that translate everything into Spanish, and the Hispanic people just wear headphones the whole time. What is also interesting is when we go to Sunday school, there is an English and a separate Spanish Sunday school, so that is interesting, sometimes we go to the Spanish class sometimes we go to the English class, it just depends on the investigators that show up.
In your ward have you done away with PEC? Yesterday was the last day that we were supposed to have PEC. They changed it and are now having a Ward Council every week, on a week day. Just wondering if that is new for just out here or everywhere. They said they have had told to start this new way of things about a month ago, but are just doing it now.
The members are ok at giving us people to teach, but not really. They are good at fellowshiping people though. They are all over the new people when they come to church, trying to get to know them and get them involved with the church. A lady that got baptized a month ago is probably one of the best ones. She wont let people walk away from her. She is really loud but one of the nicest ladies i have met.
I have worked in some gardens one time, but that was about it. Well elder Kingsford and i also helped some people set up their computers and get things going cause they didn't know how to do anything. And we wanted them to look at the mormon.org
Today we started playing Hacky sack. I am so bad at that. I kick it really far away or just miss it. But there are some people that are really good. I think i will stick to basketball and racquetball.
August 3, 2009
My Spanish is OK. I still don't know what is really going on but i can kinda understand parts of what people say and i can tell people that i am a missionary of the church, but that's about it for right now.
My day has been good so far, we just did our laundry this morning, and we just got back from a swap meet. There is so much junk there. We went looking for some ties, and one elder wanted some new basketball shoes, but we didn't really find anything. Last Saturday a couple elders went and found like 6 really nice ties and bought them all for $1.75 so we wanted to do that again but didn't have the same luck.
They don't want people sending letters to the apartments because we are only there for like 6 weeks and then we could be changed, and being 3 hours away from San Diego it probably would be 6 weeks before someone would be able to bring it to my new area. That is just a rule that the president has set and so i figured email would be ok.
I tried to watch the video after Marley's blessing, but the computers we use don't have a program that we can watch it on. So i don't think i will ever be able to watch them, but i did figure out how to download pictures that are attached.
I went to go talk to a family and there dog attacked me. well jumped on me... didn't bite me, but i took a picture of my shirt afterwords the girl ran out and got the dog away from me and then she felt so bad about my shirt. But i was like "isn't that what wash is for?" she laughed really hard, and then told me i am too relaxed about things. :)
This family is way cool though... Yesterday i baptised one of them, and elder Kingsford baptised the other 2. Hopefully the mom will want to be baptized later. It was really cool :) first baptism down, now i can really get to work right? lol I also had to give a talk at the baptism, and the ward is so small that everyone just stays for the baptism so it was pretty much just another sacrament talk.
The Guillen Family - First Baptism
Wednesday i went on exchanges with elder Overman and I was on a bike all day. That was pretty awesome i loved being on the bike cause i got to talk to a lot more people. I didn't just drive past everyone. Pretty much i talked to everyone that was in view. Biking in 117 degrees was a little warm, but the hot wind would dry my sweat before i even got bad, but when we stopped to talk to people, it was like a waterfall started down my face.My day has been good so far, we just did our laundry this morning, and we just got back from a swap meet. There is so much junk there. We went looking for some ties, and one elder wanted some new basketball shoes, but we didn't really find anything. Last Saturday a couple elders went and found like 6 really nice ties and bought them all for $1.75 so we wanted to do that again but didn't have the same luck.
They don't want people sending letters to the apartments because we are only there for like 6 weeks and then we could be changed, and being 3 hours away from San Diego it probably would be 6 weeks before someone would be able to bring it to my new area. That is just a rule that the president has set and so i figured email would be ok.
I tried to watch the video after Marley's blessing, but the computers we use don't have a program that we can watch it on. So i don't think i will ever be able to watch them, but i did figure out how to download pictures that are attached.
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