Elder Evan's Epistles

This week it snowed super hard on Thursday, it didn't stick at all, but it was kinda fun to see.   Also a person we were teaching took us out to phô, which I hadn't had before. It was good, would recommend.  This week we had the exciting development with a person we are teaching. One of the things that have been holding back is that he isn't married, and recently he said that his girlfriend has been talking about getting married, so PROGRESS!  The Elders quorom president, plays raquetball, he also is a champ, he took us out to an all you can eat pizza place after a lesson, and we were able to chat about people in the ward we could go visit and help.   Not too much this week because we had a majority of our visits fall through, so we just kinda mobbed the streets!  Have a great week!  -Elder Bearman It snowed hard again But the weather is better Marriage is the goal

It snowed last night, and it is supposed to snow on Thursday so exciting times! We met a couple this week, Annette and Raymond, and they had questions about the plan of salvation, and so we are going by this week to go through it with them. We also were able to get into the homes of a couple of part member families as well this week, so good times! One of the families, we caught them outside, and we cut her grass with an old fashioned lawn mower which was quite novel.  Last Monday we stopped by someone who has been taught in the past, we have stopped by and talked to her daughter before, because she is the one who always opened the door. So same routine, but the lady said come back the next day. But as we were leaving the lady called us back and said her daughter wanted to hear what we have to say and so we have been able to have a couple lessons with them.  We had a fun time this week mobbing the streets in the rain we just went out and owned it. So we have ...

There is a member in the ward who bought a bus, at a public auction for a couple thousand dollars. Turns out you can't privately own a bus and have it yellow and he was using it to shuttle people to LA and charging money. So he blacked out his bus. And since he was home from college he has come to lessons and driven us around town in a black bus, so it is pretty much the best. Also last week for pday we went and reloaded ammunition, which is pretty much assembling ammunition, so that was a different day. We did it with a friend we visit quite often.  We made fried crumbed fish this week, which we learned two things from, salmon tastes better than tilapia, and your apartment smells like fish for the next day.  We went on exchanges, and I got to go with Elder F, an elder I went on exchanges before back in Fontana, so it was fun to catch up with him. He has been on bike his whole mission, and loving it just like I am. We had a guy show up to church, with his fri...

Last Monday we heard rumors about a buffet, all you can eat KFC out in banning, so we went out and snooped around. IT IS TRUE! It was 10 bucks and they had it all out on buffet so it was a lot of fun, nomming on 10 pieces of chicken (it eventually started to taste like nothing but grease and fat, so we stopped). It was a good time, and I am good on KFC for a long time. I like Popeyes way better anyway. We had a really good week of getting in contact with people we haven't had contact with for quite a while, as well as people we were just trying to get in contact with. So it was really nice to sit down, chat with them, and see how they are doing. We were also able to have a family home evening with a family we are teaching and it was a lot of fun to do object lessons with them, and see the light go on so to speak as it helps them make the connection. In other news, on sunday, we stopped by a member and they were just getting home from dairy queen. They had cherry di...

So I am emailing from a different device, so I don't have the contacts, or pictures, or notes from the week! We discovered the whole town of Yucaipa and Redlands is related. There is one family that they have three in my current ward, and one in prospect park, and some in 2 other wards. There is another family that is in every ward in Yucaipa. These two towns are interrelated like crazy.  We went on exchanges, and I got to meet an exchange student from Brazil, and the Elder I was with actually served in Brazil for two transfers before transferring over here so he actually faile portugues. We also had some really awesome lessons, where we were able to answer questions about the Book of Mormon. And finally I met an Apostle, Elder Christoffersen, it was an awesome experience. I have never been so excited to shake someone's hand and be talked at. Probably the biggest things that I took away from it is that as we go about, we should spread goodwill as we go, and how mi...

This week it rained some more, but Elder L and I didn't care and went and mobbed the streets anyway, it was so much fun! Our celebration for getting soaked, was we made ovaltine, oreo and vanilla ice cream milkshakes. In other food news, we made crock pot chili because of the cold weather and that was one of the best ideas I ever had. I also was able to go on exchanges back to Redlands, which was so much fun! I love the Redlands zone so much, and I got to be with Elder S which was one of my LaX [Lacrosse] buddies last time I was in Redlands. We even played LaX for morning exercise, it was so much fun. This week we had a lot of our plans derailed by service, but that was alright, because we got to help people anyway, there is a lot of elderly people in our ward so we help them out quite a bit. Sacrament meeting news, I gave a talk on how recognizing and understanding the spirit can influence our decisions. It went alright but was kinda scattered because that is the way...

I love my new area a lot. Yucaipa has a really cool small town feel, it doesn't have a walmart, and it has quite a few trailer parks. They had a ward boundary change,  just last sunday. T hey used to be Yucaipa 5th, but now they are the Wilson creek ward. So I was there for the first time with quite a few of the members, one even was wearing a kilt. My new companion Elder Lis a champ, he has a been from Lehi, utah, and has been out for longer than I have.  Last PDay when I was still in Colton, we actually went to Yucaipa, we visited a restaurant that is super popular, Angus McCurdy, they have a burger with a 1/3 patty, some bacon, and tri tip, and you can order a single, a double, a triple, or even a quad, it turns into an obscene amount of meat. Our adventure for the week, was we were biking up a hill and Elder L changed gear mid pedal and the chain got bent out of shape and broke. Thankfully we were almost to our appointment and there was a member who lived like 3 ...