Subimos la Montana otra vez 4/3/17

   Yeah, and because we climbed that mountain again, im freaking sore and cut up. but the pics we took were pretty rad. WE MADE IT TO THE TOP THIS TIME! last time we mad it like 3/4 the way up, and since Elder Osberg is probs leaving in a week, we had to finish it! Pics in a link below.

    Santiago was Baptized this last Saturday! too hype!! Elder Osberg baptized him, and ill be doing the confirmation this sunday, because General conference was this last weekend. We baptized him after the 2 regular sessions, and we had a really good turn out from the members in our ward. This guy is awesome, super sweet looking old man. Hes already calling a less active back to church(his next door neighbor)! CONVERT.

     General Conference was so awesome. If you didnt already know, we believe in a modern day prophet that still talks to God directly and 12 apostles that help and guide the church just like Jesus Christ established( Ephesians 2:19 ; 4:11-14). And in General conference, we get the opportunity to hear from these great men, and other selected General Authorities of the church. IF YOU WANT TO REALLY KNOW what we believe, id watch it. its on LDS.org.

     Anyways, i really enjoyed this General Conference, one of my fav talks was about "The Eternal Langauge", talking about the gospel of Jesus Christ in our lives. He compares it to how many children from hispanic parents speak better English than their parents Mother-tongue, and by there kids, many arent taught Spanish, and hence lose the language. he focuses on how we must continually maintain the langauge of the Gospel in our homes and in the lives of our children, and even us. Go read it!!

       This week i learned a lesson about spiritual promptings. As we were going to try by an investigators house, i saw a woman cleaning up some cut weeds in her lawn. Here in the mission, and im sure in ever other mission, the moto is, TALK TO EVERYONE! because you never know who is willing to accept the message we bring. I had a thought that i should to talk to her. i gave a look to elder osberg to see if its someone he has already talked to that hates missionaries (there are quite a few). When i received the notion that he hadnt talked to her before i walked over to over some help. she declined that offer, but accept us into her home, and we were able to pick up her, her daughter, and her mother-in-law as new investigators. A spiritual prompting isnt always a slap in the face, or be a pressing feeling, it can happen in more suddle ways like a thought! 

The pics and vids we took are in this link here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B95MbSeSlK4vVDh5cmlKSElJTEk?usp=sharing.

Love yall!

3/20/17

 Hello mis seres Queridos

         This week has been a good one, buts its been an even hotter one. The lows have been 88 and the highs in the low 90s, so its just hot all the fetching time. but ya know, thats just how it is, and im going to have to get used to worse, because in the summer time it gets 20 degrees hotter :)

        We had some awesome lessons this week. We are still teaching Santiago! that guy is awesome. always wanting to go to church, keep commitments, what a guy! we taught him the Word of Wisdom(abstaining from coffee, tea, alcohol,tabacco, illegal drugs, anything addictive really, and eating healthy) this week, and we though he might have a few probs with it with coffee or something, but no, he doesnt do anything, so hes on track for success!

        We also had a great lesson with a guy named Santana. hes a younger guy thats recovering his faith in Christ and just sincerely looking for the truth. He has alot of doubts, about everything really. he is also meeting with the jehova witnesses -_- . but if he really prays he will find out that our message is true. Really guys, as missionaries we teach what we KNOW is TRUE, then we just ask our investigators to pray with real intent if its true. super simple. And people become happy. also our Ward mission leader was there, and he is a convert to the church, and he bore a powerful testimony, its was dope.

       We also had a cool lesson with a Manuel and his wife. Manuel is a super cool guy, but his kids play soccer on Sunday... lame. But he said that when the dont have a game early in the morning he will come. so thats good. a little problem is that he says he will only want to continue going to the church and be baptized if he feels comfortable and good at church. i mean, thats super important and all, but its important to be converted to the gospel, not just how things go at church. we shall see.

    Loves,

                 E.B.

youthz 3/6/17

hey everyone!

   this last week was an awesome week!

      to start off, we had 3 people come to church, which was super cool! Santiago, One of the people that came to church is an investigator that we met this last week really liked the message of the Restoration and came to church. when we met with him he mentioned he didnt have transportation, so we told him we would find someone to get him and bring him at 8:30. He calls us thinking that we said 7:30, wandering where we were at. 

This is insane, 1. because usually no one wants to come to church.

                      2. because he called US wondering who is getting him, and no one calls us... and we                             give our number out to everyone offering service and to our investigators all the                               time

so yeah, it was pretty exciting, at church he commented a bunch that he wanted to be baptized and that he feels more youthful sitting by elder Osberg and I. Youthz

      We also met a really cool man named Manuel. he was really interested in what we had to say. we are going to share with him the whole message of the Restoration this saturday, and if he doesnt have any soccer games for his kids, he said he would come to church, really awesome guy. we put him and his 2 kids on date for April 8th, so it will be exciting what happens.

   So a couple of days ago marked my 7 month mark. the mission is weird, it goes by fast and slow at the same time, but always enjoyable. 

   One thing that i have really enjoyed doing as a missionary is really digging into the bible. its crazy what truths you may find when you really go deep in a verse or chapter. im trying to read the bible all the way through starting at Genesis, and so far its been a blast. the old testament is a little peculiar tho...

E.B.

baptism! 2/27/17

Hey guys!

        This week was a pretty awesome week! AS you can tell from the title of this week, Florencia was baptized and confirmed this last weekend! it was some awesome spiritual experiences, Florencia has changed a lot. when i came into this area, she seemed very quiet and shy towards us, she always let us come by but the last couple of weeks she has really opened up to us so that we have been able to help her to this step in her life. she also has like a super bad short term memory, she usually forgets its sunday or church was on sunday, but this last sunday, we didnt even have to remind her... thats a miracle let me tell you that!

        We also had a really good lesson about the Plan of Salvation with a family we are teaching. This family is a young family, that have had some recent hardships come into their paths the last couple weeks. that lesson seemed to have help them feel a little better. the Plan of salvation for those who dont know is the plan that God has prepared for us so that we can be happy in this life and prepare to live with Him for eternity with our families! its all centered on the Atonement(the sacrifice of Jesus Christ) and the decisions that we make in this life. its a pretty awesome message, and im glad i get to share it with others!

      So Elder Osberg and i are doing another 6 weeks together! i feel sorry for him tho, because when he finishes this transfer, he will have been in this area for 7 1/2 months... he hasnt been outside of the perris/menifee area. At least he gets to be with another cool missionary(me) instead of someone super difficult or new.

      We also had a lesson that lasted 2 hours because this guy just wouldnt stop talking. we didnt really mind that much because it seemed her just needed someone to talk to. he is a really cool guy too, he accepts invitations to do things, so we hope he keeps his commitments with the Lord.

   thats all for this week!

1. Picture with Florencia and Claudio

2. pic with Elder brown and Elder Cox

3.pic with Elders whiting,jones (taught florencia long ago) and the spanish sisters

oh Harold 2/21/17

  Hey!

So almost every time we go emailing, there is a man named Harold, who is an older man from the Hawaiian islands, who always comes to talk to us. He thinks that Elder Osberg and i are super tight with him, and he always calls us "his boys"😂. The funny part is that whenever he comes over to us, he tells us super inappropriate jokes lol. he also does artwork and projects of that sort, and you can probably guess that they arent very morally clean. Needless to say, he probs needs a girlfriend.

This week was awesome! We are straight slaying the game. One of our investigators that i have mentioned before, Florencia, has her baptism this Saturday! hyped for that! Whats even more Crazy is that her husband came to church with her! 

it was super funny because we were in Sunday school and the teacher asked a question to Claudio (husband of florencia), and after he answered we gave him a fistbump. then she asked one to florencia and we did the same thing with her. Eventually, a little competition broke out, and the tried to comment more than the other, and the other members were getting into it too, and telling us things like "oh yeah, that was a good one, give him/her a fistbump". it was hilarious.

There was also a ward valentines day party, it was pretty lit! one of the members is a DJ, and he started playing some seriously dope electronic music, and it was hard to stand still! Elder osberg was going crazy, he loves that stuff, i thought he was gonna have like a panic attack or something haha! (for those who dont know, we dont listen to that kind of stuff on the mission, only approved music). Then he turned on some hispanic music and all the hispanics went and danced, so it was a fun time!

thats all i got, love yall!

2/14/17

Hey Guys!

  So do you know what i hate most? When people go to the internet instead of the bible and prayer for spiritual knowledge. People like to bring up anti and when we ask them where they did research its always the internet. What a world we are in when man relies on man instead of their Great Creator. One of our investigators told us to stop coming by because of things he found on the internet, and was pretty rude about it too. the Weird thing was that he was super chill and nice when we first met with him. but im also pretty sure he worships the internet because thats all he did was bring up how the internet he found this and that and how its the best thing in the world...😶

  i mean other than that the week was Fracking good. we met Alot of cool people and im excited to see how their testimony of Christ develops as we meet with them. we are working with one family in particular where the father lost his faith because of hardships and is slowly building it back up. i decided that we needed to share the Plan of Salvation, or the plan of happiness that our Heavenly Father has provided for us. it was a good lesson but got cut short when he got a call from his brother, so we are going to see how it goes :)

   Also Florencia Sanchez will be Baptized on the 25th if everything goes right! we had an awesome lesson with her with a member and they talked a good long while #bestfrans

she was struggling pretty hard that week but she made it to church and it seems that it helped her out a ton!

     well thats all for right now, pics Below!

1.Swaggin it out with some chillins

2. Noche de hogar! (family home evening)

This is such a trip! 2/6/17

So this week was an awesome week, alot of cool stuff to talk about!

  So, the quote from the drunk lady, really funny story and all. So we get to this house, and its the last house that we were going to stop at for the night, we were going to see this lady alma, but we lost her address and we just knew the general location. so we thought that this house we found was the right house, so we get out and knock on the door. after a few seconds, a lady looks through her blinds and lets out a weird scream saying " HEYEEE". 

  She opens the door and immediately invites us in, but this woman wasnt Alma! when she say who we were, she said " oh crap hahaha, you guys look just like my nephews, this is such a trip." I could smell the scent of beer of her breath, and i just got uncomfortable tbh. i decided to ask anyways if alma live there, but she just told me that no one named alma lived there, in a weird giggly, drunk way. then she said "oh crap, this is such a trip." she ended up saying that like 12 times lol. Then people come out from other doors in the house and say hey to us, and one of the guys in there comes up to us and says "She needs jesus, she drinks too much help her" chuckling at the same time. they eventually tell her to talk to us outside, because she was letting the cold in. She tells him to get her purse and her keys too.... uhhh lady, we arent taking you out idk what you think we are... 

but then i go tell Elder osberg to get a BOM real quick. so he grabs it, and we just start trying to get her to commit to read it, because hey, why not?! i quickly tell her we arent going anywhere but we are just going to talk right there and then we would leave. She starts talking about ho she goes to this baptist church right next to ours. We took the opportunity to be blunt and tell her that church wasnt as cool as ours, just joking around, because ya know, you cant get alot of stuff done with a drunk person. then she started talking about how Jesus loves her, and we were like "thats awesome! youre 100% correct!" and we gave her high fives, alternating back and forth probably about 50 times before she noticed what we were doing, and added in a "this is such a trip!". we left her a BOM and left. it was pretty funny.

     Also, we got a text form other missionaries that a non member needed help moving, so we called this number and she told us were she was and we went and helped. So we go and help her move things to her new house with our truck, but while we talked with her, we learned that she is actually from Brazil, and speaks Portuguese, Spanish, and average English. it was funny because she would refer to things by their Portuguese name and elder osberg and i would get confused on what we needed to grab until she pointed it out lol. And she mixed Portuguese and Spanish alot haha. 

 when everything was finally moved and everything, we talked to her some more about our purpose as missionaries, and she got really interested in what we had to say, who we were, and our stories. Anyways, We learn that she had a desire to learn more about God, but no church she ever attended felt right, and that she'd love to hear our message! Then i remembered right before i left Riverside, i found a Portuguese BOM and just thought it was cool so i took it. But i think i was guided to it for a reason, because she loved that she could read it in her native tongue, and i told her we would bring it the friday that we would meet on next. I know God always has something to do with everything in our lives, i dont think it was a coincidence that i just randomly "found" that BOM in the old apartment. God is wise.

Lastly, Florencia was found interviewed for baptism and is worthy to be baptized now! We are thinking that she will be baptized in about 2-3 weeks, as long as she comes to church. she kinda has memory problems, and when i asked if she forgot it was sunday, very jokingly, she answered yes, seriously... lol.

    thats all for this week! i wrote alot gosh dang it if you read all of it youre a G!

E.B.

pic!