Monday we had a zone musical number practice for zone conference, but we don't need to talk about that.
Tuesday we had THE LAST APPOINTMENT for Elder Gomez's teeth. It's all finished and he is totally fine now. thank goodness. We ate lunch with the walnut creek zone leaders elder henson and elder Tu'ua after. that was a nice treat. next we headed back to our area and ate dinner haha, then we tried to go see the Assyrian family, but they ignored us... we were really sad to say the least. The rest of our night followed the same pattern of getting ignored.
Wednesday we went out on bikes for the day, president asked us to test sacrificing one day a week to only ride bikes, so we did. the problem was that we only had one bike because elder gomez's bike finished getting fixed that day, so we had planned to pick it up after our service that was close by. It started out really off track, because one of the spanish elders was sick, and they needed to go to a baptismal interview for their investigators, so we walked to their apartment, and I stayed with him while elder gomez went to service and to the interview. After that we walked to the feiks house to grab the second bike, and then brother feik told us they will probably move when he quits his job soon, so that was sad to hear for the ward (everyone in our ward is moving to utah right now, we have lost 43 members since I got here in February). Next we went to put together our training for Zone conference the following day, then we ate dinner with the wonderful Vaioga family, and after that we started to go visit a nearby member when we got a call that two men from afghanistan had just walked into the chapel and asked how they can feel the spirit, brother kelley asked if we were anywhere close to the chapel (which we weren't) and then asked if we could make our way over to teach them. We managed to get there in ten minutes, and then taught them lesson one with lots of Islamic interpolations in between. In the end it all worked out and we got a return appointment for the following day. Cool. Next we had to go back to where we came from and teach james and Geraldine. We got there 20 minutes late because of our mulsim friends showing up and our lack of a car. We went up too the door (with their new home teacher brother Jones) and didn't receive any answer. hmm. Very odd for them to miss an appointment. We waited for them to come, and no one came. It was really strange. anyway, that was sad, but we headed home and worked into the night to finish our training.
Thursday was zone conference. It was alright, It was all about acting and understanding the spirit, which I love, thats one of my favorite things to learn about, I mostly got to teach about it though, so it was just really long, a blessing nonetheless. After we went out to eat with the Tarbuttons and the San Mateo Zone Leaders. Good times. Then we went tracting and found yet another family! the olnly problem was they speak spanish, but not too big of a problem for elder gomez. Woo! after that our day was pretty much over.
Friday was stake reports and then we ate dinner at a members and then nothing happened the rest of the day and I feel to lazy to write
Saturday was pretty much the same as the rest of the week, just on exchange with Elder Habel, so it was especially fun.
Sunday was crazy, our bishop set a baptismal date with our investigator again, so that was a problem, but then our investigator came to church with his fiance and his baby mama, and we added the baby mama as an investigator. THEN he was asking us about polygamy after, so we are really scared. Luckily he is only having the baby mama (sorry her name is tasha) around because she was diagnosed with cancer and then his fiance invited her to live with them, so none of it was his plan. Either way, he still needs to get married before he can get baptized, we don't really care to who as long as it happens. Then at the end of church, an entire Indian family walked in and asked if we believe in Christ! We told them yes and that our english meetings were over, and that we could come to their home and meet with them and teach them about Christ, so that was the miracle of miracles for the week. The Lord rewarded us at the very very end of the week greatly. Almost all of the measureable success we had happened on Sunday, it was awesome. I am three investigators away from reaching my new investigator goal for the transfer, and I couldn't be happier. I hope everyone has a great week!
Elder Tolman
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