Elder Bronson Scott Puzey

This week went by pretty quickly even though it didn't feel like a whole lot happened. Some good things:  1) Vivian passed her baptismal interview!!! So we are excited for this weekend when she'll be baptized and confirmed. 2) Her returning less-active nephew got interviewed and was sustained to receive the Priesthood and he's getting ordained tonight so he might/maybe/could baptize his aunt! 3) A woman named Mama Shirley moved back into the ward after being away for a few months and she is hilarious! She's making a bunch of fried chicken for the party after Vivian's baptism. 4) We had a stake coordination meeting and the Stake President (who's in our ward) was really pleased with the progress in the zone. S/O to Hesperia A for being loaded up with awesome missionaries. Some not so good: 1) Forgot to mention it in last weeks email but Elder Nordgren fell into a cactus lol. He's fine though. 2) Devin, our part member investigator STILL has...

So last night we were mobbin around the hood trying to catch some of our investigators and potential investigators at home so we could teach them repentance and while we were thinking about where to go while stopped at a stop sign I catch a glimpse of a pair of tail lights. It took me a second to register what vehicle it was so about half way through the intersection it clicks and I tell Elder Nordgren, "That's a FERRARI" and I crank the wheel to the right and speed off towards the direction that it was heading. "But behold, I, Nephi, will show unto you that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance." (1 Ne. 1:20) In other news, this week we had a lesson with our investigator Dave. We have two investigators named Dave so we call this one groovy Dave. His vocabulary is hilarious and consists of things like: "Well I'll be darned" "...

Not too much to report this week. Transfers were today and Elder Nordgren and I are staying together in the Bear Valley ward. There weren't actually too many changes in our zone we just had two members of the zone get transferred. One companionship got changed to the other zone in the stake so now our zone area only covers two wards which is super tiny which kinda sucks. We have to leave the zone to go to District meeting and church! We helped move people around today so we drove to Rancho today and we've already driven 100 miles.  We got three new investigators this week but we'll see how solid they are. We are continuing to work with Vivian and her smoking is getting better and better! We're hoping that she'll be able to get baptized the first part of March. We taught a more than usual amount of lesson this week so it was good to get off the streets and into people's homes!  Adventures of the week: If y'all remember a few weeks ago I got to help do...

Well this is the last week of this transfer. To be honest this transfer has been going by pretty quickly so we'll see how the last week goes. We don't really know if either (or both I guess) of us are going to get transferred so we'll see but up until this point it's been a pretty good time. The Bear Valley Ward is so awesome! We've been trying our best to do as much work here as we can and turn the area around and we haven't really seen THAT much success but we feel good about our efforts. We are still working with Vivian. We talked with her and pushed her baptism date back to the beginning of March but she's made some big improvements with her smoking and the Ward has really welcomed her and made her feel at home so we feel confident that eventually she'll get into the water and make her first covenants.  On Thursday we went down to Rancho for a Mission Leadership Council meeting and it was nice like always to see some green again and be abl...