Not that that means much to many of you, haha, but it’s P-day again!
The week seemed to fly by.
We spent almost our whole week in East L.A and Boyle heights. Since
Alhambra is pretty wealthy and no one speaks English we figure it’s
probably better to go to East Los where people are poor and don’t
speak English. Here’s the thing though, it’s actually super expensive
to live in those areas! A lot of the houses up there start at 800
thousand, like why would anyone do that?
Something that I’m pretty excited for is not having to take public
transportation ever again after my mission. Trust me, Southern
California has probably one of the worst public transportation
systems, ugh it’s so terrible. The buses are never on time, and a lot
of the time bus schedules don’t line up so you’ll have to wait a long
time between lines.
We were heading up our usual route, about 10 minutes in a kid threw up
on the bus. You’re crammed between all these people with the
overwhelming scent of vomit. It’s what nightmares are made of. Just
stuck. I tried to convince my companion to get off and wait for
another bus but he wasn’t having it, so we stayed on the bus for
another 30 minutes. I was pretty relieved when we got to our
destination. Public transportation lost a couple more points in my
book that day.
A lot of the times it seems like we’re in a movie here are so many
people walking around and so many strange things to see in Boyle
heights and East Los, definitely going to have some stories from this
place. We were talking to literally everyone, if you time it right,
there are a lot of people to talk to on the neighborhoods, we picked
up a lot of investigators this week. Nothing makes the time go by
faster than preaching the Restored Gospel all day.
Elder Oaks came to our mission on Saturday. I was able to shake his
hand and listen to his wise words. It’s a pretty unique experience
being able to be in the same room as an apostle of Jesus Christ.
Something that stood out to me was how everything thought it was so
amazing and incredible, and seemed to pay extra attention to the words
he spoke, but when general conference comes around it seems people,
including myself don’t take it as seriously. What a blessing it is
that we have modern technology that we can hear from the prophets and
apostles frequently throughout the year, of only that, but also be
able to review their words any time we want. We truly are blessed in
this Gospel dispensation. I invite all of you to fully take advantage
of these blessings the Lord has so generously given us. I am so
grateful for the ability to always have a large library of knowledge
at our fingertips.
Thanks for all the love and support! Enjoy the start of the new year!
Elder LeBaron
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1) Me with this chromed our lambo
2) my favorite church in East Los
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