General Authorities and Mexican Food!

It was a pretty chron diggity dank week and subsequent Easter.

The whole west side (best side) of the mission got to gather together to listen to a day of trainings by Elder Brent H. Nielson of the 70. He is currently the Director of the Church Missionary Department, and he basically told us to not tract ever! No but seriously he told us that finding through members (referrals and part member families) is by far the best way to do things. Which has been told to us before but hopefully this time it will stick. So don't forget to give your local missionaries some referrals!

Mission Tour with the beauties.

The MTC District!

At the mission tour I also got to see my father (Elder Guzman) and the whole MTC District! They're all doing great in their respective areas.#toomuchsauce. Theeeeen, on Wednesday, we had dinner with an awesome Spanish family that fed us some fetching sweet burritos and tacos. It was the first somewhat authentic Mexican food Elder Jarnagin has had in a while so he was animado (excited). After the awesome food, Hermano Rivera asked for a blessing for his eyes, because he has diabetes and is starting to lose vision in both eyes. I did the anointing (first part of the blessing) and it was in Spanish! Whoa! Then the blessing was given by Elder Jarnagin and it was really powerful. Faith brings miracles!

We have been working hard with Mike, our returning less-active recovering drug-addict bro. We have been having really great lessons with him with his case workers present, so I think somewhere down the line they would be interested in investigating. They always have great questions. And Mike is progressing slowly but surely. He has very high goals of receiving the priesthood and attending the temple, so we are trying to help him quit like everything at once, unfortunately. He is doing great with avoiding the hard stuff but when it comes to smoking, he is still really struggling. But he is weening himself off very slowly! Faith!

On Friday we had a sick coordination meeting with our Ward Mission Leader in South Lake Tahoe. He lives right on the beach so he took us out to the pier. Now that's motivation to find a good career and work hard!

At the beach with Elder Jardin's.

Rich people beach at Tahoe.

Rich people pier at Tahoe.

Things have been going great out here. Our investigator Darrian is going to be getting married and soon after baptized in June, so unfortunately I wont be here for that, but I am super happy for her and her fiancee!

New Easter cards.

Also something funny that just happened this morning. We had to drive Mike to Walmart to help him buy some non-smoking supplies, but we usually can't take anyone in our car unless we are doing missionary work with them.  So we stopped to knock on one door so that it counted as missionary work (even though it's P-day), and the guy actually let us in and now we have a return appointment. This was in a very rich neighborhood where tracting is useful pretty much 1.2 percent of the time. So that was nothing short of a miracle! Mike was pretty confused to say the least lol. Anyway.

Missionary work is very rewarding! 

That's all folks, talk to you next week! Have a swell one.