Sounds like you guys are doing well. I'm glad your babies are being good. We didn't go to see the eclipse either. Some elders went to go see it but their car got towed. It sounds like you guys are having some good times. That's crazy to hear about grandmas car. Wow I didn't know you guys had peach trees. Sounds like you're having a good harvest.
It's been a good week for us. I got here to Hollister. Hollister is pretty awesome. It's a relatively small farming town. Most members live inside of town but a few live far out into the fields. So it's a pretty cool area. There isn't traffic here, like there was in Menlo Park, which is really nice.
The members here are great. We have some recent converts that are really nice. The branch is relatively tiny. There's between 30 and 50 people that attend sacrament meeting. They're all pretty awesome. The ward mission leader here is pretty cool. He had been sort of wish washy before apparently, but we passed by this week and we talked to him. He seems pretty excited about missionary work now. We talked to him about the branch baptismal goal and he got really excited for that, he ended up bringing a bunch of people to church. He started lining up appointments with investigators for us and all that. So he's pretty awesome. He brought up the branch attendance to he highest it's been for a while.
We also had a meeting with our branch president. He's a pretty cool guy too. He's an orthodontist and he's pretty excited about getting back on track with missionary work as well. He doesn't have a lot of priesthood support in the ward so that makes it hard for him, he's also running his own business so he's a very busy guy. But it seems like he's holding things together well.
Elder Dalley is my new companion. He just finished his training. So he's really awesome and has a lot of fire for doing work. He's from Idaho and he's really awesome. I'm really happy to be serving with him.
We have a really really nice apartment. It's maybe the nicest missionary apartment I've seen so far, pretty spacious and has its own washer and dryer inside of the apartment. So we don't have to go try to use coin laundry anymore. That's been really nice.
We've found some pretty cool investigators this week. We're teaching this young couple. They have two really cute sons that are about one and three years old. The one year old likes to dance a lot. But they're a cool family. They had come to our church a long time ago b said they'd be interested in learning more again.
We also found this family that is pretty cool. They have a son that has cancer and also got into a really bad car accident about a year ago. He was apparently in really bad condition but some elders went over and gave the son a blessing and he's doing a lot better. The dad is pretty much already convinced about the priesthood and that this is the true church. It's just the mom is more hesitant. Also, they might be getting divorced soon which complicates things.
So it's been an awesome week!
I hope you guys have a great week!
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