Hallow-boring! 11/2/09

Yeah, it was a pretty boring Halloween. We had to be in at 6 and couldn't leave the apartment the rest of the night. We cleaned and ate the Halloween candy Mom sent. Other then that it was a pretty normal day.
On monday we had a fun Noche De Hogar, we taught about the war chapters in the Book of Mormon and had people be the mounds of dirt and the timbers and towers that Moroni made to protect his city (the city was someone sitting in the middle) so the Lamanites (Anthony and Sergio) couldn't attack with arrows and stones (paper airplanes and paper balls). They loved it, as did we doing it. Alma 49 and 50 if your interested. We related it to how we have to protect ourselves by reading scriptures attending church, and so forth. If one of those fail, our city and families are in danger.
Tuesday night I went on splits in Watts. That rocked pretty hard core! I was with my DL's greenie who felt bad because all our appointments were falling through, we got some good contacts tracting though.
Wednesday was Zone Conference, that was pretty cool. I got to see a lot of Elders I hadn't seen in a while. President set a new challenge for next transfer, he calls it a "white" Christmas in LA. He wants every single companionship in the mission to have at least one baptism next transfer. Then in January after the transfer we're having a mission wide conference to evaluate. Pretty cool. I'm really really excited about it. Especially because everyone seems to think I'm going to be flush training next transfer, I won't know for sure til president starts making calls this weekend, so I'm not going to be saying anything. I do think I'll be transfered though. THey also talked a lot about obedience at ZC. My companion took it... good? When we got home that night he smashed both his guitars, threw away half his books and everything else he had been collecting. He was going crazy. It's a good thing. He's really stepped up his game.
We also had a lesson with Anthony, we wanted to teach him how he can recognize the spirit. We watched the restoration DVD and then taught him how the spirit feels. We had him go get his blanket, wrap it around him and describe to us how it felt. Then we had him take it off and ask Heavenly Father if Joseph Smith really was a prophet. After the prayer we asked how he felt, he couldn't believe it. He said he felt exactly like the blanket was on him. He was loving it! It was so cool to see the light bulb go on. That kid is going places!
Thursday we did a lot of finding, actually found some too! Made a few return appointments and taught Sergio, tried the blanket thing but he couldn't say a sincere prayer. He just kept laughing. Oh well maybe it's not for everyone.
Friday was car free day, no one in the mission was alowed to use a car. We had an appointment with Keri, but she wasn't there and we haven't been able to contact her since. We've tried everyday and will continue til we can find out what happend.
So, friday after dinner, we go outside to get our bikes and head up to a service project we had scheduled with the ward. Or bikes were gone. We walked to and fro looking for them, and they were no where to be seen. Finnaly a lady came up to us asking if we had put our bikes by a sign down the street, yes, she had one in her house but a Hobo took the other one. When she saw him take it she put the other one in her house to keep it from getting stolen. Mine was... in her house. My companion's bike got stolen by a bum. We had to bum a ride or walk the rest of the day. He's still mad about it, I'm just glad we never found the Hobo, cause I don't think I could stop my 300 lb companion from rippin him a new one.
Saturday was boring Halloween, it was fun to see little kids dressed up and having fun, and we did get a lot cleaned in our house. Cause it definatley needed it.
Sunday, oh sunday. We didn't have a great sunday. None of our investigators came to church. Granted, we only have two right now. IT seemed everyone's investigators were coming but ours. So we were feeling a little depressed and decided to skip english ward in the afternoon and go out and work. The first referral we looked up was Lilia. She was a really good lesson. She wants to know if it's true but... can't read. I really gotta figure out how to get past this obstacle, it's coming up a lot more then you'd expect in LA.
After Lilia we went to a baptismal service of the ward, which was a little depressing too. So tomorrow we're going to push hard to find those investigators that are just waiting!
I hope all is well, Mom told me a little about scary dinner but not much. I can't wait til pictures. I'll send some more pics home. That's it for this week, until then. Good morning, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon good evening and good night!

Love y'all!

Elder Groves