This was an eventful week!!
So much is happening right now in the CLAM and it's been awesome!!
We started off the week with a super cool service project. There was a member in the San Pedro ward that asked for help so we got a lot of missionaries together and went to help him. They own a property that they rent to businesses and one business that was there in the past built a rinky dink car shop. The member wanted to tear it down so he could rent the property to new people so he asked us to help. He gave us a bunch of sledgehammers and told us to go at it and boy did we go at it! It was pretty awesome!
On Wednesday we found out that our mission will be effected by the changes that are being made by the Church to some missions throughout the world. On July 1st the southern part of our mission (my current area) will become a part of the Long Beach Mission and all the missionaries serving in those areas at the time will be moved over to the long Beach Mission. The CLAM will take in some stakes in the north eastern part of Los Angeles. It should be pretty fun to see how it all turns out!
Later in the week we went up to the visitor center and everyone got smartphones! The missionaries coming out now will be bringing their smartphones from home instead of tablets. Pretty crazy!
Yesterday Elder Killian and I had a really cool experience. We did our daily planning and had our plans all done and then I just had a thought that we should go visit sister J__, an inactive member that we found a couple of weeks ago. We put it in the plans and then went on with our day. When it got to that time of the day we went over to her house and knocked on the door and the husband who is normally pretty against the church answered the door. He was busy watching the super bowl but luckily enough he let us come in. We went inside and found out that the family had just been in a big fight and everything was pretty tense. Nobody was really talking and everyone was upset. Sister J__ was the only one that wanted to talk to us so we shared a spiritual message with her and she just started crying and said that Heavenly Father sent us to her right when she needed it most. She convinced her family to come into the room and we were able to talk to all of them and eventually they all wanted to get a blessing. So we were able to give them all blessings and afterwards they were all friends again and were happy and talking to each other. They said they felt like our Heavenly Father sent us to them to help them at that time. It was incredible to see how our Heavenly Father knows us all so well and will use others to help us. The Priesthood is used to bless others and it was amazing to see it bless this family.
Have a great week!
-Elder Burgon
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Current Missionary Accommodations
(sooo much better than the "Crusty Crab")
