Week 22: Lucky Charms!

Hi everyone, happy St. Patrick's Day, hope you're wearing green so you don't get pinched. 

Last week was spectacular! We had a few lessons with our investigators and some less-actives. But Saturday...Saturday was the highlight of the week! We had Mission Conference, and Elder Bednar and his wife came and spoke to us, it was awesome (he's good friends with our mission president and his wife, so that's probably why we got so lucky haha)! I learned so much from the counsel they gave us. And by applying what we learned from them, Elder Morton and I have already improved our teaching abilities, and I am able to feel the presence of the Holy Ghost in our lessons more strongly when we teach people. In fact, by applying what we learned from the conference, when we taught a less-active kid he actually took interest in what we were teaching him and asking him. I could feel the Holy Ghost working on him. It was probably one of the most spiritually powerful moments on my mission so far. 

Monday and Tuesday Elder Morton and I went tracting in Montclair, and we got maybe two potential investigators, but everybody we tracted into we had a great conversation with. We came across a lot of Chinese potential investigators, so we wrote down the addresses and sent them to the Mandarin-speaking elders in Diamond Bar. 

It's been real warm here in Chino. The funny thing is that it was POURING and cold on Friday, but yesterday it was 86 degrees apparently haha! This El Nino better come here soon...

This morning we went to the Redlands California temple and did an endowment session, it was great! This temple is much smaller compared to even the Provo Temple (the old one, not the new one), but it is VERY beautiful inside and out! It was nice to forget about the outside world for a little bit and find peace in the house of the Lord and be reminded of our eternal purpose. 

This Saturday Elder Morton and I will be baptizing to young girls we are teaching; we are all really looking forward to it!

Thanks for all the love and support; talk to you next week!

-Elder Ruiz

Redlands temple.  The water fountain in front was turned off haha.

Elder Morton and I in front of the temple entrance.