Crazy as Usual

Hey hey hey!
This week was much much better! We picked up two new investigators named Carolina and George! They have a family who we haven't met yet but they were a referral from some members and we are stoked to have them! So that was really exciting!

Also we had some weird experiences, like a man calling his two year old son bro over and over again. And a lady told us she saw Jesus last week. So we had some interesting contacts, but my favorite part of the week was Sunday, Matthew was ordained a priest! Ya whooooo! It was a good week! Struggles of course, but that comes with the job! But it's all good in the hood! Elder Slade got his visa so it looks like I will still be in Pasadena!

Well, I don't have anything to rant about this time.. Sorry.

But I do get to tell you the church is true! And that families can be together forever.

Ps. We had to take a members dog to the vet to be put down. Sad.

Elder Rollins

Tell me how you feel about being a missionary.   It's the best!

Tell me something you love about your companion   He is a goofball!

Tel me something you love about your Mission President   He is probably the kindest man I've ever met!

Tell me something you love about your zone leaders and  That they are obedient

Tell me something you love about the people in Pasadena They are actually more akin to serve than to be served

Did you feel the earthquakes on Sunday in LA? I didn't

Aaaahhh. Finally P-hours. (Shorter than a whole day)

Well, it's the week of joe joes birthday! Happy birthday kiddo! You're super old!

This week was good because of conference! We mostly watched conference at the church except one of east Pasadenas investigators did have us over for a huge breakfast, and that was way fun.  We did have one crazy crazy lesson this week.

So first of all we tried calling this lady lots of times and her mom would answer and yell at us about how she was a troubled child and she didn't know us yada yada yada,.Anyway we finally get a hold of her and she invites us over in an hour and a half. So we bike on up and knock at the door, her entire family has smoker voices and we hear "who is it?" We tell them who we are and then Sandra comes around the corner, we shake hands and she crawls onto this big chair on her porch really weird. She precedes to tell us she knows all about the Mormons, when we ask her how she says she has already been baptized.  We ask when, she says billions of years ago, we rolled with it and asked what we could do to help her.  She then tells us that she needs a "Book of Mormons", a "black Book of Mormons", and a "black translation book" to understand the Book of Mormons. (Yes she was black) Now I was just lost and trying really hard to understand what she was talking about. We ended pretty quickly and left but not before she asked us to bring her an avocado and a plum. Very specific. I was a bit confused. But it was good!

Conference was wonderful, except for the sustaining vote, now I'm going to tell you that I KNOW that those men are inspired servants and witnesses of our Savior, they are led by Him and I know that as we
heed their council we will be safe. When I heard those apostates yelling their "Opposed" my heart broke, those men give 100% of their time to us. Then we precede to try to tell them what the Lord "should" be saying. It is absolutely ridiculous.  If you have let satan blind you with your own pride, please take a different perspective, stop
looking for what is in it for you or what is good for you. This Church will not change because you think it should be run your way, this is His church, Christ's church, our King, our Redeemer, take your complaints up with him. Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith. Satan is out there. You are vulnerable. That is a fact. But we have a Brother who will never leave the ledge, and will grab our wrists as soon as we jump with faith. Do not be fooled into thinking that you will survive the drop, YOU WILL NOT, there is only one way and that is by Christ.  And Christ reveals His gospel through the Prophets! Those men will and do die for us. Show some respect at least. Ask God if what they say is true. Don't try to get attention. My favorite part of conference is how none of the general authorities said anything about it, I was for sure Elder Bednar would throw down, but they ignored them like flies, They are Christs Apostles and we should treat them as such. Never doubt that.

I love you all! You are the best! Keep making the world go round and be a light!
Smile.
Laugh.
Do a dance.


Elder Rollins

How many sessions did you get to see?   All

How went the teaching this week?   It was alright,

When did you laugh?  All day every day!

When did you feel discouraged?  All day every day!

How was your Easter?  I didn't get my package, so it was sad. In my defense it was there on Wednesday he just didn't pick it up!

Did you go somewhere for dinner? Yes to a members house for a "Utah" dinner. Meaning jello 

Do you work with less actives in your ward? Yes

Hey!

Hello! Hope this week was a good one!

We went to the temple which is the reason for the delay, sorry, but not really cause temple.

Also happy bday to Grandma and Con-man! Ya'll the bestest!

Well this was another tough one, seems there is a pattern. But alas I survived, but of course great things come from trials, Satan just didn't want me to go to the temple. We got a member to take us to Costco, out of all things, Costco made me the most trunky on my mission so far... Weird. But I got lots of food. So 'twas a good week.

On a less happy note I got 2 flat tires within thirty seconds of each other, while I was pumping them up. Not a happy camper.

But now for the real best part, I figured out, while in a unhappy moment, that math is of the devil. I always knew it, and they all doubted! Muahahahaha!!! See because when Satan was tempting Eve, he said that if they wanted to MULTIPLY they would have to eat the fruit!   Therefore of the devil. Ok, done.

But on a serious note, while going to the temple, I realized that we practically have the house of the Lord on our doorstep, but we do not go enough. And we use the excuse that we are busy, but Christ wasn't too busy to take your name through the temple of Gethsemane, so maybe we should, take more time to visit his house. Just a commandment.

Well, I'm sorry nothing to exciting has happened recently but something will come up. It always does.

Love you all! Return with Honor! Remember who you are!

Elder Rollins

Who went to the temple today?   Zone

Did you see Sister bell yet?     Nope

How is Matthew doing?       Really Good.

How is your comp holding up?   He's still smiling.

Where will you watch General Conference?  The Stake Center

Why did Costco make you trunky?  And how long were you down?  I don't know, maybe the familiar food.  About 5 minutes.

Did you laugh this week?  When? Jes  when my tires popped, oh and I forgot to mention that my lights

got stolen, I tried to forget about it. I laughed then too, also can I
get like 40$ for bike lights, just As a side note.

Did you get your bike fixed? Sort of, until it broke this week.

Have you seen the new church video "Because of Him"? Yes, I love that video! 

Rumor has it you aren't allowed on facebook anymore.  True or False? For the time being, we are supposed to get it back.

 

All recovered from your bike accident? Of course!

When did you feel the spirit this week? When we bore testimony after watching the Because He lives Video.

Do you know that you are so loved and supported here at home? Yes

View of LA from the Temple

The Temple

Me and My Boss

These Thug Shorts have lions and flowers

The District Band: Elder Slade, Elder Blair, Elder Me, Elder Pixton 

Bike Fail

This goes out to homies in the 801,

Well, this week was pretty boring, Meeting on meetings topped with a meeting. Training, then Elder Slade had to go to the Angolan consulate in LA while I worked with the ZLs. We had a good time though. Kai fell of the edge of the world and Matthew is doing wonderful, trying hard to find new investigators today. Week of fails, my body like stopped working on me a while ago.

But the real fail, was when I was leaving the house, the Spanish elders who live next door said I hope you crash, two minutes later, I was on my face in the middle of the road. My bike was literally on my back and my suit coat was over my head. So I was biking and I took my hand off to adjust my bag, and my tire turned 90 degrees in a crack in the gutter and I went flying over the handlebars and landed on my stomach (my tie was ok) but it was painful.

There is my funny story, the rest of the week was work work work, but I laughed, cause  I'm a missionary.

Love you all! The church is true!

Elder Rollins

Meatloaf!

Que pasa Mufasa!

Hope everyone had a wonderful week!


Mom and Dad! Happy Eternal Family Day! Thanks for getting married so you could have such wonderful boys! I'm sure they are your favorite blessings!

This week was hard again, not much really happened, but Matthew's brother is awake and doing well! Matthew got a priesthood interview, he is service ready! Love him to death!

Also for transfers we are staying the same.


Anyway the weather this week was in the 90s and I ran out of short sleeves. It was no Bueno.


Now for the funny story, apparently it was meat loaf appreciation week. Because all the members we ate with said, "It's been a while since we've had meatloaf". We enjoyed it anyway! Could be eating chicken feet! But one was made by a super sweet older lady, and while I was eating, I found a giant hair, it felt like I was coiling up a rope, I didn't want to offend her, so I kept drinking water so she would get up and go get me more and I'd pull on the hair as fast as I could, I drained three cups of water. After dinner I biked home at Mach twelve so I didn't wet my pants, you could have called it scout camp it was so intense. (In tents, get it?)


Anyway, that's the week. Next week will be the greatest week ever!


Elder Rollins

Tough Week. Round 2. FIGHT!

Hellllo!
Seems we have a birthday for the not so little Adam, drive safe, dude!

So it was a tough week, but we survived, we went on a hike this morning, I drove the polig rig, the mission mini van. That was fun. That's the pictures, lots of pictures, more will maybe come if I can get them off the iPad somehow. Anyways, success was down, but I got tri-tip stake and salmon, so I was ok. Unfortunately that means another short email.  

We did contact this guy and we just talked to him and bore testimony. He didn't live in our area but he was really excited to download the Book of Mormon!

Funny story: going on a mission is easy. Jk the real funny story is we went on three exchanges, so I was back with elder brown for a day, we were racing everywhere we went and I was pretending to yawn as I would pass him and there was this guy that took a picture of us, I'm sure it was beautiful.

This gospel is true! No doubt about it!

Elder Rollins

Study Struggle.  Do anything to stay awake. 

Josh'a zone went on a hike up Eaton Canyon.    Became a hermit.

Elder Lacey.  He is cool. 

Elder Brown and Elder Rollins

After the hike at President Nielsen's house (Pasadena Stake President)  We had breakfast here.

Put on my best, Stick out my chest and I'm off to the races again. (Quote from Newsies)

Hello everybody!

First, happy of all happy birthdays to dear aunt Brittney! 

I hope your week was better than mine! Literally we just contacted trying to get people to teach, no success, and kai got cold feet this week.

So I don't have much to report. Sorry. But I did see a man with a bunny hat on in a speedo.. Scarred. For. Life.

Anyway so this week was hard and I didn't want it for my new guy.. But it needed to happen I guess. But we will press forward! Because that's what we do. We roll.

Maybe if something cool happens today I'll write more.

Elder Rollins

Well the letter was depressing but at least he is still himself in video!