Hello everyone,

Dad, Hahahaha I just laughed out loud in the library when i read you were going to be bishop; it’s really awesome. You’ll be great! This week was a good one. Elder McGill decided absolutely LAST SECOND to extend, texted President Smart, and asked if he could extend. President Smart had to pull some strings, but they allowed him to extend a month. He was very excited.

I finally received that package from Christmas Eve. Ya know, the one with he sunshine ring (huge sweet roll) in it? It was absolutely disgusting. It was all kinds of greens yellows and blacks. The worst part, the bag was open when I opened the package! It made the whole mission office smell HORRIBLE. Thanks for the family calendar and money though.

There’s nothing really to report this week other than we had Enrique Maya's presence grace us a church on Sunday. He is an inactive, member. He was baptized in Anaheim in 1996. Was completely active, and moved to Mexico and never transferred his records, and got lost. He moved back to Riverside and tried to go to church but went to the English ward and nobody told him where or when the Spanish ward started. Stupid people. So he kind of just deactivated and lost interest. He has a 15 yr old boy Eric who's super tight and will get baptized fairly soon I think. Also we found another lessactive member who got offended in Mexico and stopped coming to church. What is it with Spanish people and getting offended at church so easily? It's ridiculous. That's all for this week.

Love you all so much and have a good week!

-Elder Dial

PS thanks for the cards from the cruise everyone!

March 19, 2012

Hello everyone,

So Transfers were this week and I'm staying another....big suprise. This week Elder McGill and I had a decent one. We taught some lessons and found some new investigators but haven't really seen any progress until Sunday. Jose Casarrubia (we say Cacarrubia) finally came to church with his cousins! We picked up about 18 new investigators this transfer and none have come to church....until Sunday. So a big ol 1 on the progressing investigators but we're still makin progress with the teaching pool.

Well Cielo's family (the family of 7 we found) is doing quite well. We had a lesson and we watched the Restoration movie and the spirit was so strong. We talked about it, and a family friend was there and she started bashing on her own church talking about how they don't do anything and how we do stuff to build our faith and all that good stuff.

I wish sometimes as being a missionary you had the keys to take away someone's agency, but unfortunately....God can't even do that. I have done a lot of studying this past week in talks and the scriptures and love that in those 3 precious hours of studies in the morning we're God's investigators and it's our turn to be enlightened. It's so weird that 19-22 year old boys can entertain themselves and find solace in the scriptures, when half of the world has never read out of the Bible.

Elder Santos from Uruguay, is training a guy named Elder Hussy...or something like that. We've decided that Elder McGill is going to act like he doesn’t speak any English and is going to speak in only Spanish. Elder McGill is fluent in both, and we're going to try to pull it off as long as we can.

A family from West Jordan just moved into our ward and went to church here for the first time, and was appalled for the lack of a better word at how different the ward is run outside of Utah. Utah wards are basically well-oiled machines. Fellowshipping isn't a problem; less-active work is done by the ward, Home teaching is done by the home teachers not the missionaries, and basically just DONE RIGHT. Wards here (ESPECIALLY SPANISH WARDS) are run more like we change the oil two thousand miles AFTER the engine light comes on.....it's just different. The ward I'm in right now is probably the most organized Spanish ward in the mission, and it still has a lot of work.

Well the time has come for us to part. Love you and hope ya have a good week.

-Elder Dial

p.s. I got the coupon and the St Pattys day package. The package was great. I always love getting packages. Bad news.....I have misplaced my camera. When I moved apartments and got transferred into Jurupa it got misplaced somewhere and is nowhere to be found. I'm still in the process looking for it but it's looking a little slim...

Monday March 12, 2012

Hello,

This week was an awesome week. Elder McGill and I did some work. We received a referral from the English missionaries, named Cielo. They said she was somewhat interested, but that's about it. So we went over there, and decided to meet her. She is a 19 yr old girl who lives with six other people from her family. We didn't think we would be able to teach her and the whole family to where they were progressing investigators. We went in talked to her and asked if the family wanted to come sit in. Well amazingly, they did (that never happens)! So we taught an awesome Restoration and picked up 7 new investigators in one lesson. Sweet, and they seem pretty good. Jesus one of the sons, is about to get baptized into Harvest (the great and spacious building), so we gotta stop him from taking that camino down to hell.

Also we picked up 2 other investigators this week, meh we'll see how they go. I've finally gotten to the point where I can understand everything everyone says. It's super relieving. I also love being here in the states and being able to meet people from almost EVERY Spanish speaking country in the world.

We got to go to the Elders Quorum President's house on Sunday who's from Cuba. He gave us Cuban food and I ate a TON. Elder Cook, from Colorado (another big guy) and I have eating competitions. Also in sacrament meeting the bishop announced that whenever the members have us over for a dinner appointment they have to make us a ton of food because, "Elder Cook y Elder Dial comen BASTANTE!"He's super tight and has tons of animals, like 6 horses, 8 dogs, and cats too. That's about it though love you all and I expect replies!

-Elder Dial

Monday March 12, 2012

Hello,

This week was an awesome week. Elder McGill and I did some work. We received a referral from the English missionaries, named Cielo. They said she was somewhat interested, but that's about it. So we went over there, and decided to meet her. She is a 19 yr old girl who lives with six other people from her family. We didn't think we would be able to teach her and the whole family to where they were progressing investigators. We went in talked to her and asked if the family wanted to come sit in. Well amazingly, they did (that never happens)! So we taught an awesome Restoration and picked up 7 new investigators in one lesson. Sweet, and they seem pretty good. Jesus one of the sons, is about to get baptized into Harvest (the great and spacious building), so we gotta stop him from taking that camino down to hell.

Also we picked up 2 other investigators this week, meh we'll see how they go. I've finally gotten to the point where I can understand everything everyone says. It's super relieving. I also love being here in the states and being able to meet people from almost EVERY Spanish speaking country in the world.

We got to go to the Elders Quorum President's house on Sunday who's from Cuba. He gave us Cuban food and I ate a TON. Elder Cook, from Colorado (another big guy) and I have eating competitions. Also in sacrament meeting the bishop announced that whenever the members have us over for a dinner appointment they have to make us a ton of food because, "Elder Cook y Elder Dial comen BASTANTE!"He's super tight and has tons of animals, like 6 horses, 8 dogs, and cats too. That's about it though love you all and I expect replies!

-Elder Dial