I wanna sick all the pitbulls of California on Satan!

June 25, 2012

Hello everyone,

This week was a good one. We did some work. We put like 20 people on date. Not really but we did put a lot on date. It's the only way to do it. Just commit, then they tell you their concerns and it all comes out good, because the gospel of Jesus Christ is TRUE. I love it. Not a ton of time left. We are going to be moving Adriana’s date back because she’s been having problems with her daughter doing drugs....fetchin satan. I wanna sic all the pitbulls in California on satan. Oh well. We are going to be seeing a lot of baptisms here soon; as long as we stay faithful and preach the ATONEMENT.

 I thought this story from President Monson was really cool…

 "Sometimes cities and nations bear special labels of identity. Such was a cold and very old city in eastern Canada. The missionaries called it “Stony Kingston.” There had been but one convert to the Church in six years, even though missionaries had been continuously assigned there during the entire interval. No one baptized in Kingston. Just ask any missionary who labored there. Time in Kingston was marked on the calendar like days in prison. A missionary transfer to another place—any place—would be uppermost in thoughts, even in dreams.  While I was praying about and pondering this sad dilemma, for my responsibility then as a mission president required that I pray and ponder about such things, my wife called to my attention an excerpt from the book "A Child’s Story of the Prophet Brigham Young. She read aloud that Brigham Young entered Kingston, Ontario, on a cold and snow-filled day. He labored there about 30 days and baptized 45 souls.  Here was the answer. If the missionary Brigham Young could accomplish this harvest, so could the missionaries of today. Without providing an explanation, I withdrew the missionaries from Kingston, that the cycle of defeat might be broken. Then the carefully circulated word: “Soon a new city will be opened for missionary work, even the city where Brigham Young proselyted and baptized 45 persons in  30 days.” The missionaries speculated as to the location. Their weekly letters pleaded for the assignment to this Shangri-la. More time passed.  Then four carefully selected missionaries—two of them new, two of them experienced—were chosen for this high adventure. The members of the small branch pledged their support. The missionaries pledged their lives. The Lord honored both. In the space of three months, Kingston became the most productive city of the Canadian Mission. The grey limestone buildings still stood; the city had not altered its appearance; the population remained constant. The change was one of attitude. The label of doubt yielded to the label of faith."  (Thomas S. Monson, “Labels,” Ensign, Sep 2000, 2)

 Man that is so cool. SO TRUE!!

LOVE,

ELDER DIAL

Happy Father's Day!

Monday June 18, 2012

Hello everyone,

Happy Fathers DAY!!!!!! This week was alright. We didn't teach as many lessons or contact as many people as last week but still decent.

I want to talk about Adriana. She is an investigator who is on date for the 1st of Julio. Super solid golden, anything to describe a great investigator you would call her. On Saturday, we had a ward activity for Fathers and Mothers day. Bishop felt bad that they didn't do anything for mother’s day so they made it for both. It was a dinner, supposed to start at 5 ended up starting at 545, classic Spanish, and we ate dinner, and there was like a talent show type thing. To start it off, Bishop asked the missionaries to do a song. Obviously, as usual, nobody wanted to sing so I ended up doing a solo (schmucks). I sang a primary song about mothers, and everyone was in tears...OBVI.

Adriana came to this activity and was havin a great time, minglin with members and enjoying food. Sunday comes....and she doesn't show up. Apparently her hija  (daughter) has problems with drugs and all kinds of other stuff, and Adriana had to stay home. I HATE SATAN. He sucks, and ruins people. Guadalupe, same thing. Showed up to the dinner, and probably had more fun than Adriana, but SATAN ruins it. Our investigators who did show up were Jose Casarrubias, and Daniel Gomez. Jose, I'm amazed with; his family and his cousins family all share one house. He's 16, has CATHOLIC parents and is living in a house of SIN. His cousins, Paco and Jerry, are members, got baptized, and sealed in the temple with their parents and sister. Man, are they wicked. Their favorite pass-times are, drinking, smoking, drinking, fornicating, drinking, saying grocerias, drinking, breaking the law of chastity, and drinking with their dad. We've been doing a lot of work with that family. I LOOVE THEM, they’re hilarious; they remind me of my family (only more wicked). It's funny because we'll be having a lesson with José and I'll say Paco what's the definition of faith for you? he'll say, “It's f******** like when you believe in something and you can't really see it but you can feel it's there like.........” and says something inappropriate that I don't say because I’m a missionary ;). They know the gospel, but, I don't know. they’re interesting. Don’t get me wrong, super giving loving family, just kind of a skewed view of the gospel.

 Jose is on date for the 8th. Daniel was a referral from Hermana Campos. She like houses a bunch of illegals when they first cross the border and gives them to us as referrals. Super Tight. I only know that because I've received 9 referrals from this lady and the all live in her house.....fishy. But we haven't taught Daniel yet but he seemed to like church a lot. We'll put him on date On martes. (Tuesday) That’s basically it.

 Love you all and hope que tenga una buena semana! (you have a great week!)

-Elder Dial

Disappointments must come

 

Hello everyone,

This week was.....good up till Sunday. We taught a bunch of lessons, contacted a bunch of people, we were supposed to have a baptism on Sunday......but IT FELL THROUGH THAT DAY!! I don't understand these people. How can one say that oh ya yayaya I'm comin to church for sure without a doubt! and not show up? We were supposed to have a total of 14 people to church with LA's (less actives) and investigators.....and we had TWO investigators to church!! We visited 5 of the 14 in the morning before church because we're blessed enough to have a car...and not one of them showed up!

 This is the Most fulfilling and frustrating work I've ever done in my entire life (sorry about the misspells in this muff the computers are alllll freezin up and I’m too lazy to type everything and go back and fix it and wait for it to unfreeze).

On the upside we received another SOLID referral from a member named Adriana. She is from Acapulco Mexico and is black as night. The first time I met this woman I approached her with my very slight black accent (IDK why I do it when I talk to black people but I do) and talked to her in English. This woman doesn't speak a word of English. Puro espanol. When I say black I mean this woman could play in the WNBA black. She wears ghetto black girl clothes, big lips, curly hair the whole deal....but Mexican. She's got three kids, a son who’s like 19, 14 yr old daughter, and another older daughter who moved out already. She's so tight. She's on date for the 1st and has already talked to members about her baptism. She'll for sure get baptized, she's awesome. We're going to visit her 3 times a week.

Our baptism that was supposed to happen fell off the face of the earth so that stinks.  We'll have to get contact of him and get that fool to church and dunk him and lay our hands on that fool so he can feel that constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. Oh well.

Love you all!

-Elder Dial

BEST WEEK EVER!

Hello everyone,

This week was the best one I've had in this area. We taught 17 lessons and had 147 contacts; almost 20 lessons (which is the ultimate goal) but not quite there. It all started with a great day on Tuesday. Monday is our P-day and Tuesday is the first full day of the week. We kicked off the week having 7 lessons on Tuesday and picking up two of our 3 new investigators on Tuesday as well, we were pretty stoked for what was to come. The rest of the week was pretty normal.

Julio is going to get baptized next Sunday, his little brothers birthday was yesterday so, we scheduled it to where the rest of his family could come.

We picked up a new investigator this week, his name is Felipe. He was super interested in the principle of eternal families. I'm excited to start teaching him more.

We also got a member referral named Adriana, she has been interested in the book of Mormon for the longest time and we'll put her on date this week. She's super solid.

Ricardo (the guy we baptized on the 20th) is SOLID. He loves church. He loves meeting with us and hopefully we can baptize the rest of his family soon.

The work, our investigators, and we as missionaries are all progressing as the time goes on. I'm so grateful to be a servant of the Lord. He loves us all so much. He's handing out the Benjamin, (editor's note: not sure what that means…but I bet it’s a good thing!)  all we have to do is take it. The church is true. The sacrament cleanses us, and makes it so we can feel the Spirit and be happy in this life.

 Go to church and take the sacrament, repent; I do it daily, and feel the happiness and cleanliness of the Holy Ghost in your life. Tons read these emails, act upon the promptings and feelings you're receiving. I love you all and hope the week is a great one!

-Elder Dial