March 6, 2012

Carlsbad  is good. Like I said last time, the weather is amazing. I can see the ocean almost every day. I really need to take a picture of it sometime. We have a bunch of stores and a mall in our area, which is really nice. There are a TON of hills in this area, so am going to be a beast!

 

My comp. Elder Soderberg is really cool, and we get along well. He is from salt lake area. 4 siblings, he is the oldest, he mostly has sisters. He wants to be design buildings.Senior and junior companions dont really mean too much at all anymore. We are both seniors, so we don't put  one above the other. Which should never happen by the way.

 

The area is in short supply of investigators, which is hopefully going to change soon.The people here are from all over the place. There is no one particular race/ethnicity/or whatever here. Its a huge melting pot. I've found that people are way different andless talkative here than in temecula. So it takes a little more of an aggressive approch to get people to talk to you. That is way good for me though. It makes me get that much more out of my comfort zone. It's good stuff. I've just kinda realized how far I have progressed out here. I'm not the same little 19 year old that you guys saw last while I was back home. I am not that shy little kid anymore. I guess thats what a mission will do for ya. Thats what 9-10 months will do for ya.

 

This past week I went on exchanges twice. Once with our district leader, Elder Stubs, and then with his companion, Elder Hensly. They are both really cool and I will get along with them really well. those exchanges were both really, really good! The spirit was super strong during the whole time, and I feel like I receved revelation on what we need to do to get this area going. We are going to be going by all of the ward council members and teach them and specifically help them out with their missionary work. The last thing  deals with contacting. We are going to make sure that all of our contacts with people end with a invitation for them to do something. So far, I have really liked the results of us doing these things.

 

I've recently been very, very interested it the words "trust in the lord". I wanted to ask you guys to let me know what you guys think that means. If thats from a talk, lesson, object, scripture, or whatever, let me know what you guys think about those words. I've been finding that trust is intertwined into faith, and then hope. So anything with those would be great as well. Just do it in your spare time though, it's not super important, but I want to know more about this trust.