Elder Bronson Scott Puzey

So after 4 months in Hesperia with Elder Nordgren we both got transferred out. Pretty sad cause we had a lot of good things happening the past couple of weeks or so. More on that later. I am down in Rancho Cucamonga as a Zone Leader still with my new companion Elder Bryner. Elder Bryner was a district leader in my zone the first transfer that I was in Hesperia so that's pretty cool. He's a great guy and a hard worker so I'm excited for these next few weeks with him!  Now for a little recap of my last week in Hesperia: We left the area with two people on date to get baptized. Austin and Devin. I've talked about them both before but here's a quick reminder. Austin is the boyfriend of the Young Women's President. Devin is the son of a less-active lady in the ward. The Bear Valley ward isn't going to get replacement elders (the whole mission is losing missionaries so a lot of wards are dropping down to one set, it is not because we are bad missionaries (I...

So some updates on some of the people we're working with: Literally everyone is the same as last week.. So some updates on some of the other people. Last week I talked about Tony and Lupe and we had an appointment with them on Saturday. I wasn't there cause I was on exchanges but Elder Nordgren said this about the lesson. Back story: last week when we taught them the first lesson we asked if we could come back and set an appointment for this Saturday (couple days ago). MOST of the time when we set appointments they fall through cause we show up and they don't answer or aren't home or "had something come up" but when Elder Nordgren and Elder Jeppson showed up they let them in and had hot chocolate, water, and some treats set up for them. This time some of the family was there to listen so that's three more investigators! They said the lesson went really well. When that ^ was happening I was down in Rancho Cucamonga with Elder Etheridge. Elder Et...

Not a whole lot to report this week. We had zone conference on Wednesday and I was asked to conduct that. Luckily I didn't trip over any words or nothing. It was a pretty good conference, nothing too crazy happened.  Some updates on investigators/ recent converts: Vivian wasn't at church, don't really know why but she dropped her phone is some water so we can't get in contact with her. Luckily she's relying on her church friends so nothing to worry about there. Xavier didn't make it to church yesterday which is really sad. We had a good lesson with him on Tuesday and almost got him on date but he said he really needs to learn more about the church before committing. We're getting there, slowly. Chris is a new investigator from last week. He seems very sincere. He's going to the local community college up here and he actually played football with one of the members from the Samoan ward so that's cool! We taught him the restoration and th...

Crazy things: 1) It snowed! I didn't realize that that happens in California.  2) We saw a rainbow! 3) Vivian got baptized! So here's the story: We show up to the building around 12:30 to start filling the font so that way it's nice and warm. We set up the room and get the hymn books passed out and move tables in and out of the room like you do. 1:15 rolls around and that's when we told Vivian to be there so she could change and some practice could be done before people got there. Well 1:30 comes around so we give her a call. She informed us that on their way home they got pulled over because one of their brake lights was out! They held them there for a long time because Vivan is from Spokane and  still has an out of state driver's license (shout-out to my Washington gang). She told us that she already called the Bishop and that he said she didn't have to worry and that everything would work out. Well that's true but WE were stil...