Elder Bronson Scott Puzey

So we've been here for a week now so we're starting to get things figured out. This week actually flew by for me cause we were super busy! So Monday was transfers and that takes the whole day so that was over instantly. On Tuesday we were down in Rancho again to help bring up the luggage of the new missionaries in our zone. On Thursdays the assistants came up to the desert to talk to us and the other two zone leaders in our stake. All four of us have never been zone leaders before and have never had a companion that was a zone leader so they answered the questions that we had and walked us through some of our responsibilities and such. It was much needed. On Saturday we were back down in Rancho (I'm not complaining cause I love the valley) to go on exchanges with the APs. They live in the backyard of a members house and they call it a barn but the inside is exactly like a house and it is so nice! It's probably 3 times the size of our apartment. While on exchanges Elder ...

Well after 6 months (roughly 4 transfers) of being in the Adelanto/Samoan area it's time for me to finally head out. I moved all the way to Hesperia, Bear Valley Ward (which is about 15 ish miles from where I last served). My companion is Elder Nordgren, he has been out for 4-1/2 months so we are both pretty new still. This morning we headed down to Rancho Cucamonga to do some transfer stuff. That's where we picked up the keys to our truck (a new Charcoal Toyota Tacoma) and the keys to our apartment and church buildings and such. My companion and I were called to be zone leaders in the Hesperia A zone and we have both never 1) been zone leaders 2) served in the area 3) been companions with each other. So we're whitewashing in and have absolutely no idea what we are doing in the area or as zone leaders. Wish us luck. I'm looking forward to the change though! An Elder that I used to live with (Elder Reilly) used to be here and said that the ward is awesome so that's...

Since the last email I sent we were able to talk to Camille again and gave her a second lesson. She told us that right before we came over she had been praying and asking for forgiveness for something and felt that there might be something more that she needed to do. So it was no coincidence (because there is no such thing) that we talked to her about the Gospel of Jesus Christ which includes sincere repentance and baptism. We told her about the joy of repenting and having our sins washed away when we are baptized and the promise that we make with God that we are going to try our absolute best from then on. She accepted to work towards baptism on the 13th of January so we are really excited to continue working with her and helping her see how the restored gospel can help her and her family feel more happy and more united.  On Saturday I was able to go on exchanges with Elder Muhlestein who is going to be home in one week. I was able to pick his brain a little bit about things th...

So as most of you know, Elder Kunz and I cover two wards. The Adelanto ward which is just a normal ward up here in the desert and then the Mojave Ward which is the Samoan ward. In Samoan culture (and really any Polynesian culture) they love to feed missionaries because they have a strong belief in being blessed for feeding servants or messengers of the Lord. So most of our dinner appointments are in the Samoan ward and on Saturday we were able to have dinner with the Jacksons. They have three boys that are still home and they are so cool. They all love football and sometimes on the weekend we will spend our workout time at their house in the backyard with the weights. Ahmir is a Senior this year and a few weeks ago they had senior night. At some point during the game Ahmir got tackled pretty badly and both his Tibia and Fibula were broken. So back to dinner, we had some good nachos and then taught a quick message like we always do and this night we talked about faith. God gives us tri...