I can't believe august is about over.. time is really flying.
8-23-11 Tuesday
Today we had fundamental trainings for all of the new missionaries for most of the day - it went really well - we are doing those trainings next week so that should be fun. We'll train from 9 - 12. I better know my stuff right? I went on exchanges with Elder Koo - he's in the Korean program. It's his 2nd transfer - he came to the USA straight from Korea. He's such a good guy. We walked the streets for a couple of hours and talked to people - then had dinner with some members in the singles ward. We had a lesson with another family and committed them to invite a friend over next week for a FHE. Sweet! We were a half hour late to our last appointment but showed up to the apartment at the same time as the family. It was perfect! We had a really good lesson with them about the restoration - i've got high hopes for them.
8-24-11
This morning we had our "P.P.I" before splitting back with our companions - we had a training for all of the mission leadership from 10 till 2 at the mission home. We learned how to work with our ward mission leaders more effectively. We had our last lesson with Allison and then she had her baptismal interview - she passed and will be baptized on Sunday!
8-25-11
This morning we did some service for Yvonne - her house has flea's. Lots of them. That was fun. We met Trey at the visitors center and watched the restoration movie - he is getting baptized on the 24th of september. We did some planning and then went to dinner - we set up another FHE for next week with some non members. We had a great lesson with some former investigators... and then they dropped us. Bummer.
8-26-11
We had our district meetings today - they went great - we didnt have to train - bonus. I went on splits with Elder Moli - he's from Tonga and played rugby on their national team. He's a tank. He's really probably the most humble missionary i've ever met though - he's a great guy. We had dinner with a great family and felt the spirit so strong - the father is looking for a job and we talked about that for most of the hour - we are praying hard for him. We drove an hour and a half on the super-busy 405 freeway to the mountains of malibu to meet an investigator.. we got up there - beautiful.. then called the bishop only to find that we were looking at an old ward list and he didnt live anywhere near there. Bummer. SO we walked the streets of south robertson for an hour and talked to everyone we saw - it was awesome!
8-27-11
This morning Elder Moli bought us some Tamale's from a lady that sells them every saturday morning outside our apartment - they were a great breakfast. We had our "P.P.I" and then met back up with our companions. Elder Maddox and I used some time to plan the up coming training and zone goal for september - busy busy. We helped out at a wedding reception and then talked to everyone in our neighborhood for about an hour. We have so much to do..
8-28-11
Today we went to church ( we go to the La Cienega ward from 7 am till 1, then santa monica 3rd from 1 30 to 5 15) - we had a few meetings - I went to SM3 meetings with Mike Pace while E. Maddox stayed for the classes at La Cienega. We cut out early at SM3 for a baptism in Huntington Park and then headed back to the stake center for Allison's baptism. It went so well. She will be such a solid member of the church!
Love you all,
Elder Cottrell
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