California Week Two - Check!

Hello again!! I miss talking to all of you!!
 
1. All of those that wrote me an email... they are printed and I will write you a real letter back since my email time is limited...

2. Last Monday we played basketball and I must have been on one because sister Arbogast be rockin it! hahaha

3. Sister Ence and I had to get the brakes changed on our car so we take it in and the guy says, "Yeah that will take about 4 hours." What?!? We were then stuck out of our tracking area with no car. A set of sisters picked us up, dropped us off in our area and then a different set of sisters took us back not using the freeway by the way because she was too uncomfortable so our 10 minute ride back turned into 45 minutes... OH well! We got to go over the batman bridge!! The bridge that was in the Batman movie... I took a pic, I will send it soon!

4. I shouldn't be saying this BUT we have got some SKETCHY parts to our area! Glad I got the mase! It has been in my pocket ready to go a few times. But one main bad road is "Drew Street" which we went by the other day and took a picture. Don't worry it was during the day! BUT while we were there we saw a...

5. Elote cart!! Never had it but we tracked this cart which was pretty much a shopping cart with stuff on it for Elote. Elote is a corn on the cob on a stick with mayonnaise, cheese like Parmesan, chili powder and lime juice... YUM!! SO good! We told the Elders we got some and they were mad that we stopped in the area because we are two white girls in the hood going down an alley for some elote cart...

6. Sister Cetina is a sister that we are working with that is GREAT! She is super nice! She joined the church like 30 years ago but has fallen addicted to coffee but is trying to work her way back so we can go to work in the temple... she hasn't drank coffee now for like 10 days!! We are super proud of her!

7. We were driving one night to find a house and we see this fish tank... Sister Ence goes, "AQUA TANK!" What?! She said it was a cross between fish tank and aquarium... it was funny whatever she was saying

8. The Salazar Family! They have 2 of the 5 children that are baptized and the parents are not. We are working with them but it is really frustrating to be honest. They are great when we are there and say they want to come to church and be baptized but then they don't show up to church or aren't home when we stop by to remind them but we are still working on it.

9. We have TWO church tours!! We do this cool thing where we give tours of the church. We talk bout the foyer and how there are pictures of Christ everywhere, we talk about the Spirit and ask them to pay attention, we go to the chapel and talk about the stand and no paid ministry and then the sacrament and then baptism and the font... anyway we gave out 41 invitations last week and got 2!! We are excited!! Hopefully they show up!

10. We taught Relief Society! it was good! Taught about reading scriptures, inviting the spirit (prayer), and self evaluation.... it was fun to teach again like that
11. We just had an Armenian bbq today!! Chicken on kabobs, some bread thing... and humus... either way it was YUMMY!!

I think that is all for now... Until next week...
 
LOVE YOU ALL!!
 
Sister Arbogast
 
ps. I'm pretty sure that the person next to me is farting and it is NASTY!