PDay, Promptings and Service

** We sent Elder Routledge some pictures of home, these were a couple of them :-) ** 

Okay, so first off, the picture of Furious 7 made me super crazy. Now I want to see it ha-ha, oh and for my placque, as much as you would like me to come home in 2016, it is not going to happen :-). I am staying until at least 2017, maybe longer, we'll see ha-ha. 

This week was crazy good and a lot of fun. 

Actual beam from Twin Towers

Monday was just a riot. We went to the Ronald Regan library. One of the coolest things was a piece of the 9-11 TWIN TOWERS BEAM and i touched it. I don't know if I was allowed, but I did it anyway. (Anyone that knows Elder Routledge knows how...obsessed...he was with September 11th, so this was a BIG deal for him). It was so cool and there was a piece of the Berlin wall and I touched that too ha-ha. It was so cool and I learned a lot and got myself a really cool shirt (He's becoming a t-shirt collector just like his dad !). It was just a really cool experience and then I went to some more firehalls (for his dad) and got more fire patches. I have like 8 now. Then we ended the day with a really nice beef tri-tip dinner at a members house. 

Always Remember

Tuesday was really good. We went back to the dog shelter place in the morning to help them out and took some of the dogs out for a walk around the mall so that made them really happy. 
Then we went to another service project at an investigator's house. We were cutting down a big tree which was pushing her neighbour's wall out so one tree turned into like 3 big trees, like palm trees. The wood is a little softer, but heavy as crazy, so that was really fun. It took a lot of work and caused a lot of sore muscles, but oh mom, so worth it. We planned on doing a tree and ended up doing 3 and it made her so happy to have us go above what she asked us to do. She was so happy and her joy brought us great joy. 
Then we saw Carolina and her brother and sister. That was fun as it is always fun teaching people. 

 Wednesday was pretty good as well. We had to go to the doctor's to get a check up on my comp's wrist and all is good. His wrist is healing very well so that was good to hear. (Not sure what happened to Elder Routledge's companion's wrist as it happened before they became companions). Now that his wrist is better, we can start working out hard again and we just started an abs workout that kills so much. It is like 20 minutes long but non-stop. It is very hard but very effective and I am already losing my gut. 

At the Ronald Reagan Library 

After that we had some lunch, then (this is really crazy), I got a strong feeling to go tract in the richest area in Simi where the houses are in the million dollar range. My comp got a little annoyed because he said this area is very prideful. I was determined, so I made him go tract up there and I got the feeling to start at the 3rd house in. Well, we did and nothing, then the next and the 3rd house we skipped because some guy was sitting in his car, so we tried the next one and nothing. My companion decided we should try somewhere else and the house we skipped, both of us got the feeling to knock on his door, so we did. We ended up meeting a 22 year old kid who was very cool and very interested in knowing what we had to share. Turns out he is now a new investigator ! That was very cool that we acted on a prompting and the Lord blessed us. 

Elder Routledge and his district

Thursday was good. We had our district meeting and that was fun as I got to conduct this one. We had some good talks and my companion and I gave a presentation. It was a nice, spiritual meeting. 
After we went to go help a non member with her storage unit. She's a hoarder as she has like 7 units packed full of stuff and she is a little mean. We helped her move her things, and she is super picky with all of her junk. We could not drop a single thing or it would be our death, but we helped her out and then tried to meet people all day. It rained buckets all day so we were proselytizing in the rain most of the day and it got pretty cold, like it was 53 degrees. (for us Canadians, that would be about 12 lol). I had my coat on and everything and I could even see my breath, it was no good, but hey, the rain is very much needed. 

Written on the 9-11 beam 

Friday was our weekly planning session so that was good. We got our week all sorted out and then we went back to help out the lady with all the storage units but this time we helped her move rocks in front of her house. No special rocks, just 50lb boulders. It was so dumb. Well, I was in a rough mood because she is very mean and never says Thank You. Well, I just pushed it off and went to work and after she bought all of us snacks and expressed her deepest gratitude, so that was very cool to see that all of this help that seemed useless to us really meant a lot to her, so it felt very good after that. 

Saturday was crazy. We tracted almost all day and had a very good dray from it. In the morning, we got 2 others and a new investigator from just tracting. It was very cool to see people still open up to us when we are at their door. 
We also had a lesson with a less-active guy and his non-member wife. Usually we go over there and just talk but this time we actually got a lesson in. 

We also saw a less-active member named Tim and mom, I am shivering just saying his name. He is the nicest guy you could ever meet. He lives alone with his 2 cats and when we were there, he was talking to them. He said they are really the only company I get. His living situation is rather horrible. He is a hoarder and his cats use the floor as their bathroom. His apartment smells like urine and smoke. It smells so bad our throats were hurting from sitting there (we were there for like, 30 minutes). He is living in a dumpster and is so lonely. It is so sad and I feel so bad for him. I want to help him, but I have no idea what to do or where to start :(
That was the crazy part of this week. 

Sunday was great. We had 2 returned missionaries speak. They spoke with such power and had so many cool stories from their missions. They were very nice guys and both want to come out with us and help us. It was soo cool to hear them speak and to see their joy in serving full missions. They were also glad to be home though, and that was very cool to hear. 

Well, I have to get going, so I'll talk to you next week. I love you soo much. Talk to you guys soon.