BIG News!

Hello everyone!! I hope your week was as wonderful as mine!

1. I went to Chinatown again... not so wonderful. I have been too many times now hahha BUT my companion LOVED it and wants to go again and again. Give and take. In the picture... umm lets just say it was hard to get on that poll thing BUT the pictures were fun :]

2. We had a great FHE with Chloe and Paula on Monday. We went over the 10 commandments and law of chastity. Oh yeah did I say how president Becerra and his family came to FHE too? President, his wife and son knocked on the door right after we finished the law of chastity. Thank goodness for that HUGE blessing. Would have been awkward to teach to him and his son who is 14. Either way, the girls are great. They were already living the commandments we taught that night.

3. I had zone leader council this week. A lot of it was about what we can do as a mission to double our baptisms. That has been the thing since president Becerra got here. We looked over all our funnel charts and everything has doubled except baptisms on the chart. We were discussing what changes we can make to make it happen. A member of the seventy came and he said that in about 3 months something big is going to happen in this mission. Well that was a little over a month ago... its happening. So Cal is getting ready and I LOVE being a part of it for now.

4. Peter dropped us this week. The spirit was so not there in the lesson. He came in just prepared to not really learn. I feel like he is just not willing to act on the answers he receives. Its sad.

5. The new joke between Sister Butler and I is, "Remember when…" and say an embarrassing moment or funny thing that happened. The week she was like, "You have never seen Star Wars? That’s an abomination before the Lord!" It was hilarious!

6. Went to the dentist… my mouth still hurts.

7. Got home on Thursday for dinner and Brother Card come to hand the mail to us… I saw that it was from the mission and I started to worry. Open it and yep, its what I thought. All my checkout stuff and my flight plan to get home. I cant believe it. It makes me want to work harder though. I fly into the Seattle Tacoma airport May 8. My flight lands at 1:03pm. Weird.

8. The past couple Friday nights we have been having a booth at the street fair in Monrovia. We have a banner thing, videos from

9. Chloe and Paula were baptized yesterday. It was AMAZING! We set up the chair to fill the primary room like normal. Yeah, we had to move it to the chapel and it was full. The ward was AMAZING in support. The talks were given by Paula’s high school teacher that is in our ward and another was by their seminary teacher. Spirit was strong. Everyone kept commenting on how wonderful the girls were and what a reflection it was of their parents. Both of the girls parents are taking the lessons and I’m sure was nice to hear that support and love for the girls and their family. The girls were SO happy after. After the service when they were welcomed to the war and each given a new quad scripture we had refreshments in the gym. The girls were skipping around with all there LDS friends and so happy. I LOVE it!! The gospel changes people for the better. And being able to see two girls that don’t have really the same friends at school be so close and happy together with the gospel… such a blessing. It was a WONDERFUL day to say the least.

10. My favorite scripture of the week comes from Doctrine and Covenants 130:21. I have been really thinking about obedience this week for myself, after zone leader council and then on Sunday it was our gospel essentials lesson. Scripture says, "When we obtain any blessing from God, it is obedience to that law upon which it is predicated." Heavenly Father wants to bless us. It doesn’t have to be a HUGE disobedience factor but it is in refining the little things we could be better at. In class on Sunday our teacher read Romans 5:19. The changes we make good or bad… will and can affect many. We just need it to be for the better.

Love you all!!

Sister Arbogast

mormon.org and Mormon messages, a church table cloth, the works. The Spanish elders have been getting people from it but not so much the English work. We shall see. At least people can see we have Christ pictures everywhere.