Red Light, Green Light

This week was bothersome because there was a chance of rain every day pretty much, but it only ended up raining twice. Tender mercies of the Lord. I have learned that when biking the parts that get soaked are a straight line up your back, and the top of your thighs.

But in other news there is an Investigator who is on date for Cinco de Mayo! That is the day I was baptized! Twins! Hopefully Aaron can make it.

Also this week Elder F blew a big hole in his tire. It was pretty awesome, it took about 10 seconds to go completely flat. He had a cm long slash in his tire and his tube. We had to walk back to the house we had left about 10 seconds before and ask for a ride back to the apartment. 

On Friday I got a sniff of MD air. Some one actually went to DC for a business trip and he offered to stop by my house! So I gave him some Redlands oranges, which are pretty legendary and he took them on over and brought back a Tupperware of homemade cookies! With MD air inside as well. I definitely ate all of them in personal study.

We also had an interesting experience where we were biking by the University of Redlands, off of University St and a motorcyclist waved us over and asked about the Sunrise Apartments. His directions were it was next to the college off of University. Fun fact, the Sunrise apartments are off of University Pkwy next to CSUSB and is actually next to the church building in my first area. He got off on the wrong university by the wrong university, but I totally knew where he was talking about and was able to give him directions. It was cool because I knew where he was talking about in Southern California, usually people will be talking about places and I will have no clue.  

Tuesday we had a really cool experience where we knocked on a potentials door, and where chatting with him about his religious background, and he was talking about how he was pretty well read, about the history of our church, but not too much about what we believe. So we told him that if he wanted to find out what we believe the Book of Mormon is a great place to start. We asked him if we gave him a copy would he read it? And he hemmed and hawed and said that he is super busy but he would probably get around to reading it in the next month or so. Then we read the first paragraph of the introduction and he said he probably be able to read it within the week. So we closed with our testimony of the Book of Mormon and he said he would read the introduction that day! It was amazing to see that as he learned more he became more interested. We are excited to meet with him again.

We went out home teaching with the Ward Mission Leader and he was teaching the family about Family Home Evening and he asked us to share our experiences and so I was talking about how awesome it was and I shared when we played red light, green light down that narrow hallway and it was hilarious. Then I got a bit homesick which was sorta funny and sorta annoying. Looking back I think, "what were you expecting moron?".

Also for those who know what scripture scouts are, in companionship study Elder F was talking about how he was reading about Alma and Amulek, and then I went off singing that one song "Alma and Amulek deep inside..." so Sunday was a weird day.

Yet another great week though!

Happy Easter!

Elder Bearman

Rain rain go away, please?!

I knew where the guy's destination was!

I ate many homemade cookies!