What's up friends and fam? It's finally been cold here in LA!! Cold as in 50 degrees... Everyone says that's as cold as it gets here but that's probably still pretty warm for a lot of you. It's been a rainy and windy week but I've enjoyed it! It's been fun to mix it up a bit and break out the umbrella.
This week we did some pretty fun stuff! Earlier in the week we did a zone blitz which I hadn't done before but it was pretty cool! A couple of districts got together and all went into the Malaga cove elders area tried to create as many new potential investigators and return appointments for them as possible. We switched up companions and me and Elder Peterson got put together and we went to a dog park and talked to LOTS of people. We learned if you just do a normal street contact approach at a dog park nobody will talk to you and they'll just walk away. But if you start talking to their dog and then ask them about it, they will sit there and talk to you forever! That's when you can really talk to them about the gospel. That was a lot of fun! Plus the park was right on the coast so we had some killer views!
On Friday we were driving to a lesson and when we got there we parked the car and then noticed that there was a nail sticking out of the tire! Our lesson ended up falling through so we quickly drove to pep boys and luckily made it there without our tire going flat. We got it all fixed and were like pfew glad we didn't end up on the side of the road with a flat tire! Well, jump forward now to yesterday. We were driving around and visiting former investigators and we just got done knocking on some of their doors so we went back to car and hopped in. Turned the car on, put it in drive, and boom! The whole car shook and we had no idea what happened. We put it in park, then into drive and the same thing happened again! I pressed the gas to try and pull away but the car would bearly move! Well to make a long story short our car is having problems! Fun stuff. We got it all fixed up today though.
Cool experience for the week! We were out doing our normal missionary work earlier in the week and we were ahead of schedule so we were trying to figure out what to do. We decided to go to a members house who is really active and super awesome! Her name is D__ and she is 31 and submitting her papers to go on a mission soon! I didn't even know that was possible. She also has a younger brother who was super close to being Baptised last year but then canceled last minute. Anyway! We decided to go to her house so we stopped by and they were home and let us in! We talked for a while and eventually she told us about how she has been going through some hard things right now. 15 minutes before we got there she said a prayer and asked for help. When we got there she was so happy because we could give her a blessing and help her with what she was going through! She said it was a testimony builder for her that God answers prayers!
Have a great week!
-Elder Burgon
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