Pie To The Face

万圣节 快乐!!

This week has been quite the roller coaster of excitement out here in the amazing California Riverside Mission! 

Here is a quick Recap of the week:

First off we met with Sunny again! WOOWOW she is so amazing, she blows me away every lesson. She has been praying and reading very diligently, her faith has been growing immensely! We taught her the Word of Wisdom and were on that topic for a hot minute. She said this will be a major trial for me, but I trust in God. She has been doing amazing and we plan to move her baptism to an earlier date! We believe she will be baptized in the next 2 weeks! WHOOT WHOOT! 

Second, we met with my good friend Pius. After he showed us his 30-year-old rock collection and a small sermon on each rock. We were able to teach him about the Word of Wisdom also. He is smoking about 20 cigarettes a day... So it will be quite an adventure for him. But he loves God and knows our church is true. I have faith he will be able to accomplish his goal! Please pray for him.

We are also working with Rosie. She is so fun and is also eating up the lessons! We met with her on Tuesday and put her on date for Nov 18th to be baptized. She has also been praying and reading every day! She came to our Trunk or Treat party and had a blast throwing cupcakes at my face! 

Lastly, as I hinted at above we had out Ward Halloween party! It was CRAZY! We had soooo many Chinese people there. Majority of them I had no idea who they were. We were all over the place meeting them and getting contact information ;). We played a game where you stick your face through a hole in a tarp then everyone lines up to through cupcakes at your face! Doesn't it sound sooo fun? When we missionaries had to stick our faces through everyone got in line.... We had all of these Chinese people a lot from our English class ecstatic to nail us! I will drop a video down below of me getting coated in whip cream! It was quite the event.

Elder Johnson is heading to Taiwan tomorrow, finally! Therefore we will be having a 4 man companionship... we will be working two areas at once and constantly rotating companions. It should be quite interesting.

JUST KNOW the work is going great. God is good.

Love all of you! 

Halloween Party 

Ben's Email to us (with a little extra😊)

Again I have no clue where my recorder is... However, time is approaching that you will see me in person! This week had some amazing miracles!

We started teaching a woman by the name of Larina. She is from Taiwan and was very interested in our message. Everything we taught stuck with her and she has been praying every day. She looks like she has a lot of potential to be baptized

We were also able to teach Sunny again this week. We taught her the Word of Wisdom and that was fun! We went back in forth for quite a while on why it was necessary. She LOVES coffee and wasn't too excited to give it up. Also that she loves to go drink with friends. However, she is very humble and was willing to try and has kept it all week! Until she drank on Saturday... However, we are going to continue to help her! 

We met with Pius and also taught the WOW. He is smoking 20 Cigarettes a day... So that one is going to be a process! Please pray for him to have the strength to overcome it. 

We met with Rosie and put her on Date for Nov 18th. She is also really solid and willing to try! She can go to church on Sunday and our ward Halloween party. We hope she will hit that date. Since it is my last Sunday. 

Lastly, we had the Ward Halloween party. It was awesome! We had like 55 Chinese peeps come to it. More than half were non-members. We had a game where we put our face into a tarp and people through cupcakes at us... I had many people nail me right in the face. Everyone was sooo excited to nail the missionaries. We had like all the Chinese people line up to get us haha. A fun activity and we saw lots of success because of it. 

All is going well out here! Time is flying. Elder Johnson is heading to Taiwan today... So we are going to have a 4 man companionship. Which should be interesting. 

LOVE you guys! 

A little side note: We got a call from the Mission President telling us that Benjamin ended up in the hospital with "inflamed intestines" that had him buckled over for quite some time. I'm sure you can imagine that I AM FREAKING OUT, but we have been reassured that he is doing great and ready to get out and work again!