Prospect Park on a Bike

What we do in temples is make more covenants, or promises, like at baptism, with Heavenly Father. One of them is getting sealed to our families, for time and all eternity.

This week, who visits the Americas in the Book of Mormon?

Mom I made my first batch of cookies Monday, and the oven burned them pretty good on the bottom so that was super sad. But the tops are delicious! Also we were out walking around a neighborhood and a member gave us a call and asked, do you want some cake? And we were like sure, what's it for? And he said, oh me and my wife just wanted cake and when you are an adult you can just go but a cake.

Also the Christmas initiative is coming up, and we are starting to show the video at dinners, have you guys back home seen it? It should be a very fun Christmas. Tuesday I was so fried, I was super stressed and saying goodbye to people was not fun, I like them. Thankfully after transfers the stress went away. 

Prospect Park is an interesting area, half it is is on a slight hill up to the other half where most the members live which is some straight hills, I will try to get a picture of them. Also in the highlights the temple is in our area! And we meet at the church building next to it! 

I had a good week in studies I am starting the Book of Mormon over again, and i read 1 Nephi 8 about the tree of life. Then I just noticed that in later chapters it gets explained and alluded to. That is a chapter to read and reread.

We played basketball and this group is nowhere near as good as last transfer. However we played with some old men, and they were hilarious, one dude had a mean hook shot. Elder Williamson is pretty good though, so beat to teach is a possibility.

12 week is interesting, going through it again, except this time I have to be doing the teaching, so I am learning alot more, you only really know the subject if you can teach it. That applies to everything.

We went to Loma Linda Friday night, and sang SDA hymns to people in the hospital. It was an strange but awesome experience. They have some weird hymns about some weird things, but overall they are super nice. Also the first lady we ended up singing to was Mormon. So we sang some of our hymns. It was a great experience and it got me excited for the caroling season.

Also we did some service at a mansion, we made it christmasy, but it is like a straight up mansion with gardens, and a walkway and fountains, and koi ponds. Some people have a lot of money.

Angus Mccurdys is probably the best hamburger place ever.

We had a lesson with a lady who decided to get baptized in two weeks. So we have to teach her all of the lessons in that time frame, it is crazy! Also the bike ride up to her house is about 15 minutes of a steady uphill, finished with a turn on to a 45 degree hill, for about 20 yards. Biking is quite an adventure, because we end up at lessons sweaty and out of breath.

Sunday was crazy because the Redlands stake got ward boundry changes two weeks ago, I didn't know anyone, but also my companion only knows half of the people. And guess what, they don't have a ward mission leader either. Who needs them anyway? We also taught sharing time in junior and senior primary. We also stepped into relief society to answer some questions. Everyone decided to have a lesson on missionary work, all at the same time. But it was awesome and lots of people got to see me.

Then we got to go help a guy set up his Zoroastrian stuff, there was chalk and stuff, and he was a funny guy. He was yelling stuff like, "cleanliness is next to godliness...or something like that.
I am doing sweet, I love my new companion and area, and there are good things to come in the next 5ish weeks.

Elder Bearman

P.S. the oranges are looking real good

Biking up hills, no fun
But my thighs are looking like watermelons
The work is the best 

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