Hey Family, what's up?
So, my P-day is Tuesday, and Mom and Dad should have gotten a letter about it, but anyway you know now.
I'll just start with the basic things. My area is Escondido Hills B, and I'm in the Escondido Hills Ward. My companion's name is Elder Spendlove, and he is only about 5 months out, but he is really good. Our apartment is on the ghetto side of town, so it's pretty dinky, but it works. I haven't gotten my bike from Bob yet so I'm borrowing one from a zone leader. My companion actually has the exact bike I'm getting, the Kona Lana'i, just 2 inches bigger. It's pretty dang nice.
We started out with next to nothing. Our area book didn't have dump in it, so from wednesday to saturday we basically just tracted about a tenth of the area. People are pretty nice, and in our part of town, there are a lot of Hispanic people who are even nicer. We got nothing out of knocking doors and just gave away about 100 or so pass along cards. I had a few doors slammed in my face but most of the time people are nice enough to realize we're human beings. We've probably biked like 20 miles in the region we tracted. We do have a part time car, Monday through Wednesday, which is nice.
We taught an older lady with an insane spanish name I can't spell, but we cut it short cause there were a lot of distractions. Hopefully we'll have a return appointment. We also found a lady named Amy who actually voluntarily gave us her number and told us to call her to set something up. And, we found a kid named Jorge who is about 18 and let us come teach him about the Restoration last night. He took it pretty well, but he is super nice so it's hard to tell if its feigned. We are going back to teach him tonight at 8, about the Plan of Salvation.
Our ward mission leader, Brother Lopez, is way awesome. He is super into everything and has all this intricate stuff for us and the ward that I couldnt even begin to explain. He is really helpful. We went to Ward Council Sunday at 9 and met all the leaders which was good. They started to get a few dinner appointments for us, since we've just been eating on our own mostly, the first being the Bishop's family who had us that evening. Last night we ate at the Navarrete's, a part member family. The mom is white and a member, and the kids are members, but the Dad isn't. He is way awesome though. He's definitely Young Men's leader material. Super cool. We had what tasted pretty much exactly like Chipotle Burritos, which was SWEET.
I should probably mention. We were tracting some day last week, and had just had sandwiches for dinner. And at about 730, some guy came out on the street and asked us to come in. Then he gave us each 2 chicken and rice burritos and said his roommate was a member and usually feeds us. So we'll be going back there sometime.
At home all we have been eating is mostly peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and frozen burritos/chimichongas. Which are pretty good. We have worked so hard that we eat like ravenous wolves when we do, and I fall asleep at about 1031 every night. I have a nice tan line from my watch already.
I don't know what else to tell you...whoever gets this first, I have a little over 40 minutes left on the computer, so text/call everyone and tell them to quick send me an email so I have something to reply to for them. And if not, I guess I'll talk to you next week!
Love,
Elder Haskin
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