PDay Sunburn, Pie and even more Pie

Elder Routledge...BEFORE...the sunburn 

So, I'll have to be fast as we are on a crazy tight day as there are lots of Elders today, being Memorial Day and this is the only place to write home. 

Thousand Oaks 

Monday we had regular sports and did all of our shopping. Monday night was good, we had dinner at a less-active membes house. It was pretty good. 

Tuesday was good. We had our zone hike and that was a crazy day. We had like 2 or 3 zones meet in Thousand Oaks for a big hike and conference. We met up and went on this very cool hike and for part of it, we were blindfolded as a companion activity to help build unity so that was super fun. We could not see anything and we had to only relay on our companions voice, they could not touch us at all. We had to go down some big hills, up some hills and we had to avoid some cactus, so we had to listen very carefully. 
We hiked for a few hour and then had lunch. There were a few other activies as well, then we had a talk with our MP (Mission President). After that we headed back into our area and got back to work. I was sun burned soo badly though. 

 Wednesday I hated to put on a shirt and tie with a sun burn and it was one of the worst things I have ever done, it hurt so badly. 
I went on an exchange with Elder Fridal and that was pretty good. I got to drive that day, so that was fun. We ended up seeing a few members and investigators and helped a family member mow their lawn, so that was pretty fun.

Thursday we had our district meeting and that was very cool with a few awesome lessons. Then the sisters brought us strawberry shortcake treats just cause they wanted to be nice. After we met with a recent convert and then a less active member. 
We had a really nice pork dinner at our Mission Leader's house and the red corvette is his car. It is soooo nice. I'm sorry it is so short this week, but we are packed today. Anyways, Thursday was a good day. 

Friday was our weekly planning session and that was good. We helped a member paint some cabinets so that was fun. Then we had some bad news. 
Remember the kid we met last week in the nice house we tracted into ? Yeah, well his dad told us not to come back anymore so that got us a little sad, but we'll just keep trying. We were pretty heart broken though. 
After that we had dinner at a member's house (the Morris's) and they made me a pumpkin pie (I didn't even know that he liked pumpkin pie !) We also met with an older couple 5 times this week, by far my favourite family on my missions. They are just so great !

Saturday was a very crazy day. This week was very slow, but Saturday we tried to keep busy all day. We went and saw a few investigators and one guy we saw got into a good talk on when the next big earth quake will be. Everyone keeps telling me very soon, but hey, I don't know how true it is. But it was a good talk and he is such a cool guy. 

Elder Routledge & Elder Gregory

After we went back to the Morris's and had more pie. When we got back to our apartment we saw cops everywhere with M4 Assault rifles and handguns just walking around. Turns out some guy was running around with a gun but we were in a good lesson so it is cool to see how the Lord keeps us away from dangers. (Yes, I know this is true, however....I swear I'm either going to have heart failure or grow a head FULL of grey hair from stressing about earthquakes and now armed gunmen! haha) We finished the day off with a Spanish baptism, which was very cool to see. 

Sunday was good. Just regular church and we had a 70 (A member of the Quorum of the Seventy (church leader)) show up and talk to us a bit. Then we went to the Morris' again and had more pie and barbecue food. It was sooo great. I love food so much. 

Well I am clear out of time. I love you all so much and I will talk to you later. Muah to you all. Keep being awesome. 

PS - I found a big leaf and got bored in the car so I decided to take some selfies hahaha