Whatever it is, it looks like they are enjoying it.
What kind of service can 5 Elders be doing with 2 mules?
Whatever it is, it looks like they are enjoying it.
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So I guess I'll start with the transfer news. It seemed like a lot of things happened, but also like nothing changed. So the trainer thing is not set in stone for this transfer. On Friday, Salt Lake City called President and said they'd like to send him some visa waiters, if they don't get their visas by 4 PM on Monday. So, that means that I don't even know if I will be training yet. And because it's a maybe, they already had a companion lined up for me. So what happened is that Elder Goodrich is going to be staying with me, and Elder Haltli has left to go to Hidden Springs in Moreno Valley with Elder Maughan. I am still the District Leader, though my district was changed around. Now I have the Spanish Sisters in my district, as well as the Sun City Elders, who are on bikes, but the Perris Ward Bike area has been dissolved. Elder Mayo is going to Temescal Valley in Corona, and Elder Hofer is going to the Menifee Lakes Ward. Elder Brown and Elder Cox are still together, the Spanish Elders are the same, and the Zone Leaders stayed the same. Things are definitely kind of weird because lots of people are going back to wards where they have previously served.
So the rain that pounded Southern California was sort of a bust in Perris. We did have to be in by 3:00 PM on Friday, but it barely was misting at all. Then around 6 or 7 it started raining in earnest, but nothing compared to how hard it has rained on other days. So because we're lucky enough to be in the same complex as some other missionaries, Elder Brown and Elder Cox came over to help us keep our sanity but it was still pretty rough by the end of the night. We had dinner with the Langston family on Saturday though and she said that over near Los Angeles and some other more coastal areas, there was a ton of rain and sinkholes everywhere. We missed pretty much all of that, so that was both a blessing and a disappointment. It was especially a blessing though because there was a funeral for the mother of a member in our Ward on Saturday, and everybody expected it to be really muddy, if not still down-pouring.
So this past week was interesting for missionary work. One of the most interesting days was Thursday, when we literally wore jeans and a t-shirt all day. So it started with normal studies, and then we had planned to go do service with the Romero family, some investigators, at 10:00. They have a really cool farm where they do a lot of composting and natural stuff, plus they have goats and pigs and chickens and they also breed dogs. He milked the goat for us and let us drink some. It tasted pretty good, but it would have been better if it wasn't warm. So we did that for a couple of hours and then we had to run down to Menifee to do service at a food pantry with the Zone. About 30 minutes before we finish service there, our Ward Mission Leader calls us and says "Sister Castro is moving now because it's going to rain this weekend, can you come help us move?" We were already in service clothes so we figured why not. Well we get there, and because she thought she wasn't moving until Saturday, nothing is packed. So Brother Sperry has a contractor pack of big garbage bags and just starts throwing everything that's loose into a bag while we move the furniture. It was pretty amazing that we were able to pack, move, and drop off an entire house in 4 hours with only 2 trailers. At that point it was nearly 6:30, and we have dinner with the Sperry's every Thursday anyway. So we just went over to his house in our service clothes. He'd had chili in the crockpot all day, and we had dinner and MCM in our service clothes. So that was our Thursday - 9 hours of service and a planning meeting.
So missionary work this past week has been kind of slow. A lot of our appointments fell through, though we did have a couple of good things happen, including one just today. So first good thing, was that on Wednesday we decided to go visit the Romero family. They had some family over, but they still let us sit down and talk with them. He showed us around his garden and we talked about that for a bit, but then we got to sit down and talk about the Gospel. We committed his wife and kids to go to church, and she said maybe. I feel like they are going to be a slow process and we are going to have to work with them at their own pace. One of the ways we're going to do this is through helping out in his garden on Thursdays, and then having a lesson afterwards. I also think it will be easier to have lessons with the parents first, and then the kids can be taught later. Besides they will be at school when we are going over there to do service and teach the lessons.
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