Week 90

Monday was GREAT. We didn't do much, our  appointments fell through, but that's ok.

Tuesday was similar. Frank had to drive to Rodeo so we couldn't meet with him... so instead we went to go contacting at the BART station!! It was fun, we met a Jamaican guy for elder Johnson to talk with, he swore at us and started dancing. Turns out he is definitely crazy. We have started seeing him all around the place now too. Street corners, medians, Walgreens parking lots, he gets around, and he yells and dances the whole time!

Wednesday was cool. We went to contact a few referrals that we had, one was a dud, he saw us coming through the window and ran to shut the blinds. He definitely didn't answer the door... next we visited a few members here. We had service at the Senior Center for their St. Patrick's day party. It smelled like the old people's diner we ate at a few weeks ago. Probably because all the same people were there eating the same old people food. That night we went with Brother Kelley to go and teach Luis. We had a super super long lesson, because everyone there except Elder Johnson and I have been blessed with the gift of gab, so we had to rein in the lesson a few times, but we had a great lesson on how to recognize answers and why he needs to have one if he wants to get baptized. We are excited.

Thursday we had service again, then went and did some service at Brother Hapiuks house, then went and ate dinner with the Hayes family, then we went and took are of a couple things for elder Johnson going home, then we went to visit frank and taught him!

Friday we planned. not much else to say.

Saturday was amazing. through the week we had dropped two baptismal dates, which was a bummer. Luckily, we had a lesson that we had scheduled with a referral we got earlier in the week with a man named James! We got there with Brother Kelley, and he was waiting on his porch for us. We went in, and turns out him AND his wife want to learn!! So we sat down and got to know them, then Brother Kelley was like "So when can I baptize you?" (I don't recommend doing that, but it worked out) and they said whenever it's possible, so we explained what they need to do to prepare for baptism and what that means, and set a date for April 15th, it was really cool. We taught the Restoration to them after that and corrected a lot of false doctrine and bore a lot of testimony, honestly it was one of the cooler lessons I've been able to teach. Plus, at the end James's mom joined in, so we added three new investigators and two baptismal dates, we are really excited! after that we taught a recent convert named Mi Mi, then went to contact another referral, AND THEY WANTED TO GET BAPTIZED TOO, but they couldn't talk right then but asked if we could come back the following Saturday. Miracles galore. after that we had a fun dinner with the plowman family, then went to CAMBODIAN NEW YEAR. I saw Pream and Jonathan and Ming Savorn, I was so happy. Jonathan is going to the temple on March 31st at 6 pm, and I get to go!! I can't wait (:

Sunday was pretty normal, James and Geraldine came to church though, and we sang in sacrament with the Chinese elders, and everyone cried, it was pretty cool. we sand Brightly Beams Our Fathers Mercy. that evening after dinner with bishop we had a zone testimony meeting.

Monday we got elder Johnson all ready to go, got a fresh haircut, then went to Sister Fieks house for a goodbye dinner with the ward and a few investigators for Elder Johnson, it was super cool.

My new companion will be Elder Gomez. If anyone remembers my days in the Walnut Creek Zone, he was there with me!! He is from Guatemala! 

I love Union City 1st ward, I love elder Johnson, I love the Savior. I am very very blessed. I love you all, sorry this is a day late, We had some emergency things happen for transfers in the zone and we didn't end up having time to come send emails yesterday, so we snuck in really fast this morning hehehe...

Love,

Elder Tolman