Service, Ward Conference & an even Stronger Testimony

Monday was good. We played mini golf for free as one of our recent converts works there. When we go to his house, we always eat peppers, play 'pie face' and for some weird reason, their daughter calls me Thomas and called Elder Huston Chris. It is so weird, but I love that family. (They are the ones that want Canadian candy haha).

We also went to Pismo Beach to this little cinnamon bun shop that is Cali famous and it was sooo good. I swear off sweets starting today, by the way, we are serious about it this time. 
We also had a cool miracle this week. Our Hermanas in the district (Spanish Sisters) asked if we could walk them to their car because we were in a dangerous part of town (Kind of scary to think about!). Well, we met them at McD's and waited for them to finish up their lesson. While they did, some guy called to us to talk to him, so we talked to him and ended up teaching the Restoration and he asked for a BofM (Book of Mormon) so that was cool and we would never have been down there if the Hermanas had never asked for help. 

Santa Maria District 

Tuesday was less exciting. We did do service, like, all morning though and that was really great. One of the members we did service for has, like, 4 Ford Model A's and two of them are fully restored. That was kinda cool, we also had a nice visit with Anthony and Bishop. 

Wednesday we did more service at the food bank this time. We had a few lessons today, nothing crazy happened today, just kind of an old simple missionary day. 

Thursday we had to get emails figured out (many moms didn't get emails on Monday), so we went to the lab and got that all figured out and got some talks, watched some videos, the whole deal, it was cool. We also had a really good weekly planning session and we rode bikes for the majority of the day so that was fun to get out on the bikes. We also had a nice visit and dinner with the Leverson's. 

Truck Stop Lunch 

Friday we had a really crazy zone meeting on finding. Our mission numbers are very low in finding right now, so we needed a good uplifting meeting to get us all excited to get out and work. We had a nice lunch with Sister P. at a truck stop diner and that was fun. I also tried Catfish for the first time and I freakin' love it ! A member made it for us and it was freakin' amazing. 



Saturday was crazy as well. We set a goal to talk to everyone we saw and we actually did and one guy we talked to went off about Nascar and we invited him to a ward party and he said he would come, one guy we just talked about the church and set up a time to go see him this week. We stopped by to talk to Randy, Anthony and a few other people but everyone was out today so we just talked to people and it was really crazy how many people actually talked back to us. So, I have made it a goal to talk to 10 people a day and try to work in the gospel with them. 

Sunday was the craziest day of the week. We had Stake Conference and there is a YSA girl named Ruth. She is a RM (Returned Missionary) and she gave a talk on her mission, and no lie, it opened my eyes and some stuff she said has inspired me to work way harder. I even prayed for help to work harder. It was crazy. Some of the things she said, I never thought of that way, so that was cool. There were also some other good talks given, it was just good. 

Wonderful Member feeding
the missionaries

After that we had ward visits and we sat down with our WML (Ward Mission Leader) and got all excited and made these goals. After we went back to the apartment and my companion had to call President Felix, so I went and said the longest and deepest prayer asking for help that I have ever said and later that day, the scripture Alma 5:44-46 came to mind and that brought me so much comfort. I just got a special witness that the church is so true. 

Yesterday I got yet another witness that this is the only true and living church on the face of this earth and that Jesus Christ ,my Savior and Redeemer lives and that He guides this church. I know He is the head of this church and that I have received many witnesses that this is true because I have studied it and prayed about it. I am called of GOD to declare His word among His children that they may have ever lasting life. 
Jesus lives and loves us all and I know that to be true. He loves all of you supporting me and I love you and Thank You. I hope you have a great week and remember all that our Savior had done for us. 
Muah and I will talk to you all soon. 

I love you all so much!!!

Elder Kevin Routledge