100 Days???

100 Days??? Oh no.

Well, with such little time, we're having a lot of success.

I'm very shocked and sorry to hear about Brother Lauritzen. Let them know, especially Liz, that they're in my prayers and I'm thinking about them.

Sounds like Disneyland was a blast. Super funny that it snowed when you got home, because it did here too. Basically it was Springtime, then last Thursday night/Friday Morning it snowed a bunch and completely turned into Winter. I was super worried because we had planned to have a barbecue on Saturday; but by Friday Afternoon, EVERYTHING had melted and it was Springtime again. Oh Mother Nature.

This week was pretty awesome.

Monday we went and celebrated the Birthday of Elder Valliere, my son in the mission, by going and getting Korean Barbecue. 'Twas delicious. Then, later that day, I went on exchanges with Elder Babbel and we taught some lessons and saw a lot of success. It was pretty great. And fun! We're both praying that we become Companions before we go home. He goes home four weeks after I do, so we both keep each other pretty trunky. ;)

Tuesday, we taught a few lessons and then taught English Class.

Wednesday, we went over to a city called Vaughn, found a strange painting of this alien looking lady on the side of the road, took it, worked in the area, then went home. Later on, we did some service, ate dinner, and then met with our Bishop and talked about Missionary Work.

Thursday we met with Romeo and planned everything for the Barbecue that we had last Saturday. We then taught some more people, did some service, and ate dinner.

Friday we had Zone Council. It was REALLY good. We had a lot of discussion on Jesus Christ and the new Easter Video (which I'll talk about later). We also talked a lot about the Book of Mormon and how the most important thing the Book of Mormon does is testify of Jesus Christ. Super good. We then drove some Elders back to their area (in Black Creek). I used to serve there so I decided to take them out to one of my favorite Pupusas places. 'Twas delicious.

I was on exchanges with Elder Valliere that day so we had a lot of fun. We taught some awesome lessons and almost got into a Car Crash!!!!

It was super fun. We we're driving to our Dinner Appointment and some Indian Guy, turning right, totally skipped over the first lane and started turning into my lane (the far lane). I slammed on my horn and my brakes and veered left (as much as I could with the median there). The cars touched, but no crash occurred. We turned off onto a side street and I got out of our car and saw that some of his white paint rubbed off on our car, but no damage was done. The guy then came out and said that he was so sorry and that he was just super exasperated and tired and that he just wasn't paying attention. I was like "OBVIOUSLY NOT!!!!" Just kidding. I was super nice. I told him it's all fine because there was no damage and only a little paint of his car rubbed off on ours. We then introduced ourselves to him, gave him a card with Jesus Christ on it, and told him to go watch the new Easter Video. He was super nice. He told us that he'll definitely go watch it and that his faith in God grew from the fact that we didn't get in a crash. So that's good. It was super exhilarating.

On Saturday, we had the Barbecue with Romeo. It was SO good. A few Brothers from the Ward came over and we Barbecued and had a great time. 'Twas delicious. Our main goal of it was to get Romeo some friends and fellowshipping in the ward. Mission Accomplished. Later that day, after we were stuffed from the Barbecue, we had another dinner appointment with some members. Luckily, they didn't feed us that much, so we survived. We then went and taught some more lessons.

Sunday was a crazy miraculous day. We had a great time at church. A couple of our investigators came (including Romeo). After church, an Uruguayan family had us over for another Barbecue. 'Twas even more delicious. Later that day, a Mexican member of the Mississauga Ward (where I used to serve), got in contact with us and invited us to come meet some of her friends up in Georgetown (a town in our area). We went and found this Plant Farm kind of deal, where there are a bunch of Mexican migrant workers working and living there. The member took us around to two of the houses (bunkers) and we ended up teaching the Restoration to 11 of them!!!! It was crazy.  We gave nine of them a copy of the Book of Mormon (because we ran out). We're going back over this Wednesday and we'll probably try to teach all the Mexicans over there. They told us that there are about 70 living around the plantation. So we're planning on baptizing them all and starting a Mexican Branch over there. Haha!!! We were SUPER excited and Super Blessed.

So basically. This was one of the most successful weeks of my mission.

SOOO. If you haven't heard, the church just came out with the new Easter Video, "The Prince of Peace." If you haven't watched it yet, watch it!!!! It's SO good. It's awesome the direction the church is taking to focus everything on Jesus Christ. The new Easter Cards that are in Correlation with the video are just pictures of Jesus Christ on them. Nothing more. Because who doesn't want a free picture of Jesus Christ that they can easily carry around with them everywhere?? So my invitation to all of you is to watch the video, share it with your friends (online and in person), and get some cards from the missionaries and pass them out to EVERYONE!!! Let's spread the Spirit of Jesus Christ around for this Holy Week/Easter Week!!! I love you all!!!