Hey mom. How are you? I am doing pretty good. I sure loved seeing you guys yesterday, but it killed me to say goodbye. I was fine until the end, then once I said bye and left the Bishop's house I was fine again. It is just the stupid goodbye's suck, but it's okay cause I needed to see you guys. It really gave me the upbeat attitude I needed. It was nice to get that release of home sickness, now I can focus :)
And hey, in 6 months, I'll see you gain, but the next time we Skype, I'll be at my one year mark !!! Crazy, eh? I just loved bearing my testimony on the big screen TV. (He bore his testimony to us in Spanish !! For anyone that doesn't know, he is English speaking, so hearing it in Spanish was pretty great!)
Well, this week was just great. We worked so hard and had so much fun. On Monday we went and hiked up to the cross which looks over all of Simi Valley. After that we had a member make us home made hamburgers which were super good. He put this super good spice on them and oh man, was it great and then we had home made slushies so just a great night.
Tuesday was really good as well. We went to the lab and did some stuff on Mormon.org, then went to a members house and helped clean up her backyard. After we went to a different members house and the made us waffle and I had, oh man, like 13 of these huge waffles. I could have kept going but they ran out and now that I think about it, I was being a little porker, but they kept saying, "oh now, eat some more". These members are trying to fatten me up, I swear. No one fees people this much without there being some penalties and in my case, it is a little tubby Elder Routledge.
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| Elders Routledge and Murell |
It was a good exchange as we taught a few really cool people in their area. I also helped a lady build a flower box for some veggies she wants to grow, so I felt like an Elder Bob the Builder ;-) (It's nice to see Elder Routledge hasn't lost his sense of humor haha)
Thursday we taught a new couple, Carolina and Manny and then had a zone meeting with all of the missionaries in Simi Valley. We have some new goals and rules to work on and one of them is no more dodge ball in church gyms. A lot of missionaries are really sad because every single missionary in this mission loves dodge ball. We can play it outside, but no one will play it outside. After we had another feast at a members house. This Hispanic woman fed us soo much food again. I tell you, they are trying to blow us up ha-ha.
Friday was our weekly planning session which was good. We got our week all sorted out and that was super good. We have a few new big goals for me and my comp. One is to set 3 people with a baptismal date so that is something we are going to work towards. We also have goals to get 2 new investigators who can be ready for baptism in the next 4 months or less.
After we met with a young man named Noah. He was sweet and wants to start taking the lessons again. Then we had a member take us to a nice Chinese restaurant, and wait for it, more food. You would think I would just say no to all this food, but it is always so good and you can not say no to food as a missionary. Just ask anyone you know. (hahahahahah...My boy sure LOVES food)
Saturday was good. We stayed busy all day and did our very best to try to get in with as many less-active families as we could. We tried to see about 15 in total, and ended up seeing 8, so we did our best to stay busy all day so that was super cool.
Then Sunday and it was alright he-he. It was great ! I gave my talk in church and did not do very well. I just go nervous and forgot everything I wrote down, so I just rambled for like 10 minutes on who knows what, so it was a little weird. Then I got to Skype and that was so amazing.
Well mom, dad, Scott and Shel. I love you all so much and I miss you all so much. It was soo great to see you all and I look forward to the letters you are all going to send :)
I'll talk to you next Monday.
** As soon as I figure out how to do it, I will attach a
short clip of our Mother's Day Skype call **
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