Do you ever get that feeling that you want to say something but you're just not sure what it is? That's kind of the feeling I have right now. I wish I could tell you of all the wonderful miracles that have been happening here in the San Bernardino 1st Ward, but that many things just aren't happening. Some pretty neat events have taken place, but the work side of things is seriously lacking.
Last Tuesday I trained in yet another District meeting. I felt like I was beating a dead horse. As a good District leader I planned out my trainings for a while and prepared to teach them. I found out a little bit before District meeting started that we were going to be meeting as a zone for a little while. Guess what? The Zone leaders trained on exactly what I had planned on, which was Sacrament Meeting attendance, for 30-45 minutes. Then I had the opportunity to pretty much teach the same thing, but different. I felt kinda dumb making 7 other Elders sit through the same thing they just listened to again. But tomorrow is Zone Meeting, so I don't have to plan for anything! Haha.
Wednesday was pretty great. I got to go on exchanges with Elder Escamilla in to his area for the day. It was a great day! We had service planned, which was helping to roof a building at a local park that got broken into. I enjoyed it. I had never roofed something before. Now it looks pretty good. After that we had a "finding" activity. The youth in the SB 4th ward were supposed to bring non-member or less-active friends to play sports at the church building. We sure played sports, but the only person who wasn't an active member that showed up was the investigator that we walked with to the activity. It was still super fun! I hadn't been around young people for a few weeks and this was totally awesome.
Right after that we had a church tour with that investigator, named Krissa. She is probably the most prepared individual I have ever met, who is ready to accept the Gospel in her life. We just showed her the chapel, the baptismal font, and the Gospel Principles class room and she was just eating it up. She mentioned time and time again how excited she was that she was getting baptized and that she knew the Church was true. It was legendary.
I'm not sure what happened Thursday. Not too much I'm sure. Otherwise it might be worth mentioning.
Friday night was pretty fun. There's this baseball team in San Bernardino called the Inland Empire 66ers. They had a "Mormon Night" on Friday. It just meant that Mormons get cheap tickets and that the Redlands Stake Youth Choir sang the National Anthem. And us missionaries also got to go! It was so much fun! Our ward mission leader, Brother Williams, took us down there, and we actually got free tickets. It was great to be able to just sit and watch a sporting event. The 66ers lost, but the opposing team was the High Desert Mavericks, which is also in our mission, so I didn't mind that much. I was just glad to have a good time.
Yesterday was a very above average day. Before Church started (our ward starts at 1) we got a call from the Spanish Elders, whose Church starts at 9, letting us know there was a non-member wanting to attend Church that day. I was excited! We drove straight to the building, and sure enough, this woman named Faye was sitting in the chapel, all ready to be taught. Elder Alba and I went to go teach her something before church so that she could be an official investigator. We taught her, then she stayed for Sacrament meeting. Unfortunately a member in the ward who is sitting next to Faye said something to her that made her leave the chapel. Agh! The member feels totally bad about it, and wants to help fix it. We set up a time to meet with Faye on Wednesday, so hopefully we will still be able to meet with her and get this issue resolved.
Last night I went back to Phelan for a little while. It was absolutely awesome. The Chaffee's, who I've talked about a bit in past emails home, have a daughter who just turned 8. Eric Chaffee called President Godwin and got permission for me to go up to Phelan for his daughter's baptism. So Elder Alba and I got a ride with Eric's brother, who lives in San B, up to the High Desert. Since Elder Smith, my trainer, is serving in Phelan again, and he and I both play the ukulele, Eric asked if the both of us would play and sing some songs at the baptism. So we played "When I am Baptized" and "We'll Bring the World His Truth." It was so fun and we did pretty well. After that we went to the Chaffees' home to have some dinner and some good times with them. Both were certainly had.
That brings us to today. Earlier today Elders Alba, Barrus, Bird and myself all went bowling for the second week in a row. I did better than I normally do. Out of the 3 games we played my highest was 145. I also got a Turkey. That's what's up!
I'll be writing to all of you, my loyal fanbase, in a week's time. I love you all!
Now go, and be Golden,
Elder R. Sage Taylor
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