Rain + Bikes = Party

Apparently the flu has been going around pretty bad, because for the past two weeks, lots of people haven't been at church, canceled dinners, and opened the door, and said they were sick. The missionaries have stayed away from it so far, hopefully it stays that way. The flu knocks people down for a week or more.

It rained on Monday, and we biked home from the church from basketball and got soaked, but that was just the beginning. We also got in contact with a less active recent convert, and now have weekly lessons.

Tuesday was a full day of proslyting in the rain as we didn't have district meeting. We also don't have fenders on our bikes, and I learned why those suckers are so important, because I had dirt all over my face and back. We figured out a way to stop splashing water straight into our lower back and butt, but our faces were just getting junk thrown up into them the whole time. It was awesome, and I am glad it was fairly warm while it was raining. We decided to get rides after dinner.

We also visited a less active couple and their apartment was full of books and so I got sooper dooper sucked into them. They had some of my favorites like "the true meaning of smekday" and "Insignia".

 We also visited a less active who started off the conversation by saying, yeah we are trying to become active again. Wish all missionary work was that easy. Actually that is a lie, if it was all that easy it just wouldn't be right.


We had zone conference in Yucaipa which is the farthest east I have ever gone out here in the field. We talked about the Book of Mormon and why it is so awesome. Basically it is the answer to any question someone may have about our church, because if the people know the Book of Mormon is true, than Joseph Smith was a prophet and the Church is true.  

Testimony time! The Book of Mormon has brought so much good into my life, as I read it I get some great life advice. All i have gotten out of it is good, an evil man couldn't write something like that, and a good man wouldn't. It is one of my favorite books.

Our miracle is one of our lessons fell through. We were a but bummed out, but we had a lesson before with A & R, who are trying to get baptized in March, we committed them to live the Word of Wisdom and addressed how to read the Book of Mormon and understand it. Halfway through that lesson our phone started blowing up. It turns out that a member had set up a lesson with his friend and her family, so we shot over there right after and had a bomb lesson, we read the Book of Mormon, and her mom asked us so what do you believe in anyway, and at this point it was like 8:15 and we had to be back at the apartment at 8:30 for exchanges, so we read through the Articles of Faith, which are AWESOME, nice simple truths. And the mom thanked us for answering her questions. We felt the spirit so strongly right there. And then we pounded it back to the apartment to get ready for exchanges. If we had the other lesson then we wouldn't have been able to have the sweet lesson with the other family. God works in mysterious ways.


We had exchanges and it was fun because the missionary I was with, Elder J had been out for a while, and he had his stuff together, unlike Elder W and I, we just run around, with our new missionary fire. But one of our investigators while teaching her about the gospel of Jesus Christ (we mentioned baptism) and she went off talking about how she wants to be baptized a mormon, and whether or not she was allowed to get baptized. We said yes to both questions. It was awesome.

We had dinner on sunday at 2:30 with the F and I really think they are on to something. They eat dinner right after church, then take a nap, then wake up in the evening for a treat and some family time.

Thats it folks have a great week!

Elder Bearman

Rain, rain was so fun

Flu, go away and don't come back
We love you President Monson 



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