TWO MORE WEEKS!

There isnt time in the day nor room to write all the gnarly stuff I get to see in Oildale hahaha. Its my favorite!!!! I love ghetto people, they are just so lovable! Especially when they are tweaked out on meth and are like twitching and super hungry and paranoid. I may as well be a certified Police Officer cause I know exactly what drug does what to you hahaha. For real though I love it! There is so much work to be done!!!!!

We have had a pretty crazy week! Bummer about being a Zone Leader is I think I spend just as much time away from my companion as I do with him. Its kinda sad cause me and Elder Burke have so much fun trying to guess what drug somebody is on. Nobody else gets it haha!

We went on exchanges with some Elders that were struggling pretty hardcore. I went with the one that was having a lot of issues and had the opportunity to talk to him a ton. Honestly he is a fantastic missionary! They both are but they wont work together and compromise. That was what I challenged him to do I was like "You know exactly what you need to be doing in order to be unified with your companion, so whats stopping you from doing it?" and after talking with him for a long time I do that thing where as Im giving somebody advice I tend to say something that is personal revelation for myself. Its pretty interesting haha. It happened once when I was chewing a missionary out for talking about how much he hated his companion in front of a member family.

Anyways the conversation pretty much went like this

"Do you believe that Christ gave Moses the Authority to command the Red Sea to part?"

"yes"

"Do you believe that he gave Elijah the authority to seal families together?"

"yes"

"Do you believe that when Christ was in Jerusalem he healed the sick, raised the dead, gave sight to the blind, made the lame walk and while he was here in America he performed miracles that could not even be written down?"

"yes of course!"

"Do you believe he suffered for every single person in the universe? Both sin and affliction?"

"Absolutely"

"So you do think that Christ can help you get along with your companion and help you find some investigators????"

"I should have seen that coming....yes I do"

So ya it was an interesting realization that if Christ can do all those miracles that he can definitely help us find some new investigators and get baptisms. So it was really cool! Im really grateful for that realization! 

Thats all for the week!

Love you all! 

Elder Carper

The pictures are of the Meadows district! We will be in the Wasco district this Friday.