Hello once again, audience! How is everything back home? Windy? From the pictures of that 5 wheeler...I'd say windy is an understatement haha. That wind sounds super crazy. It's amazing the power it has. I feel bad for the Riley's! Hope everything gets better for them! It really is a miracle that the trailer didn't plow into our deck and house. Those are missionary blessings, right? ;) Gotta spice things up somehow, right? Too bad it came at the cost of a 5 wheel trailer though, that's so sad. :( I hope everything else is going well for all of you! :) Yuba has been kind of windy, but not 80 mph haha. It's windy enough that it's a major pain to bike in though. Especially when it's going against you. It rained pretty good for the first few days this week too, so we biked in the rain and that was fun/cold. I had to buy some fenders for my bike, so another 45 dollars spent toward my bike...but that's okay. Thank you for buying and mailing the bike for me. That wasn't just a new clamp or set of fenders. Thank you so much. My week was overall great! I am enjoying California, but it's not as warm as you think it is. ;) It is warmer than it is over there, but it's still kind of chilly. Especially at night when we're riding our bikes around the area. A little more on Yuba City, the total population is around 60,000 I think, but it's pretty spread out. It's a lot like Ogden. Most of the houses are single story, kind of small. But with most of the members here I've seen that even though they have smaller houses, they have pretty nice interiors. It's kinda cool. I don't think a day has passed that I have not heard sirens of one kind or another. There are always fire truck sirens going off. It's crazy. I hear sirens at least once a day. The Yuba City area is also the world capital for rice production/exports. Surprised me a lot! I would think China or Thailand or Vietnam or somewhere over in eastern Asia. But nope. Yuba City. It's great haha. Yuba City also has the Sutter Buttes: the smallest mountain range in the world in both height and length! I thought that was awesome and hilarious. I guess I'll just go through the week day by day! This week wasn't as exciting as last week, we didn't get as much done as we did last week, unfortunately. :/ But it was still a good week. Monday, P-Day, was pretty boring because most missionaries were cleaning their apartments for apartment checks that were going to be held on Thursday so not very many people showed up to play basketball. And we didn't really do much afterward so...yeah. But it's all good. Tuesday was probably even less eventful because, even with my planner right here in front of me, I don't remember anything that happened. Other than reading the Book of Mormon and Bible with a recent convert named Maria Gandara, we weren't able to find much to do. Dinner was dropped off at our door so we didn't even have a family to visit for dinner. We also may or may not have helped out with the dinner for Young Women's in Excellence. I don't know if it was for sure Tuesday, but it was sometime this week. :) Wednesday I also don't remember much of. Man I really need to bring my journal to help me email haha...but I did find some cool scriptures: D&C 49:27 which says, "Behold, I will go before you and be your rearward; and I will be in your midst, and you shall not be confounded." I thought that was helpful, especially as a missionary. Many of you have probably known that scripture for a while haha I'm just barely finding it. :) Oops. Oh well haha. Thursday was Zone Conference. Elder Stanley G. Ellis of the First Quorum of the Seventy was here and it was awesome! He was a great speaker and I got some great notes! Which I left in the apartment so I can't remember enough to share...sorry! :) Also on Thursday, we had dinner with the Allred's. They are grandparents to Max and Brock Strassi. Any baseball fans out there? Max and Brock are playing pro baseball with the Houston Astros and the Phillies! And they were over for dinner that same night! It was so cool! My companion and I found out beforehand when we called to make sure our dinner appointment would work fine and so we went and bought baseballs for them to sign...yeah I know it's probably not the most missionary like thing to do...but it was still sweet. Our dinner thought was on Faith and they seemed kind of interested. They've had friends who have served missions. At one point, one of them told my companion and I that he really respects us and what we do. For the time we serve away from our family to be (for the most part) turned away for trying to share the gospel and what makes us happy. That was really cool. I was able to play the piano for the Allreds and the Strassis and the baseball players said I was amazing. Haha. That was super sweet. Thursday was the bomb. Friday was great, especially dinner. We had dinner with the Reiersen family and the Rider's (a recently converted older couple) came over for dinner as well. I LOVE THE RIDERS. Sister Rider gave my companion and I some really nice scripture markers. I tried to pay her back but she wouldn't take it. Haha, typical grandparents. ;) Anyway, the dinner thought was on Faith again that night and it was even better Friday night than it was Thursday. It was amazing because the Rider's shared their experiences with faith before being baptized and whatnot. It was incredible. The Spirit was so strong. SO strong. Incredible. Right after that we went and played volleyball with the Spanish speaking elders and some of their members. It was great. Saturday we did service and gave a lesson to a man named Anthony Rosul. He was supposedly in our area, but upon further inspection he is right outside of our boundaries and is in the Sisters' area. But before we found that out, he basically invited himself to church! It was amazing. He didn't end up showing up, but it was still pretty cool. We're going to give him to the Sisters so that he can go to the right ward. But the situation with him is awesome. I don't have much time to go into detail, but it was really cool how it all happened. Sunday was good, not a ton to report on though. Church was awesome and I read about the Urim and Thummim and was really intrigued to learn about them. I've been on this big Bible Dictionary binge lately. It's freaking amazing. I love the Bible Dictionary. So much information and it is incredible. So before I close, I have some closing remarks! In the Topical Guide under the heading "Objectives," 2 Nephi 2:25 (Adam fell that men might be; and men are that they might have joy) was there and I put it together that one of man's biggest objectives is to have joy! That was awesome. And one more scripture, 2 Nephi 1:15 talks about being encircled eternally in the arms of love. That hit me pretty good on Sunday in Sacrament meeting. It was super cool and I felt the Spirit so strongly as I had just finished reading/singing (in my head) hymn 112, Savior Redeemer of My Soul and found this scripture. I know that we are ALL ETERNALLY circled in the His arms of love. My neck is in perfect working order again! It's amazing how it healed so quickly. I pray for thanks every day. I'm being careful with it, and so far it's been great. No problems. Elder Hazleton (my companion) is great. I just asked him if he knew Spencer Jones and he was like, "What about him?" haha and I told him that he's Colby's friend and he was like, "Dude that's my cousin!" haha it was great. He's a cool guy. I notice you like a lot of my stuff on my facebook page haha. Try to share some of the things so that the word can be spread even farther! :) That's one of the biggest things about online proselyting: they want us to share and like and comment on gospel related stuff so that more people can see it. So yeah, share some stuff if you want. :) It'll help me fulfill my purpose too. ;) Thanksgiving sounds fun. We're having a meal at a member's house. He is the Ward Mission Leader here in Hillcrest. Brother Dan Martinez. He is incredible. He is a retired gang member who has converted to the gospel. He's so awesome. I know that this church is true and I know that we are all eternally in the tender care of our loving Father in Heaven. There is never a time when we are not loved by Him. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever and therefore always loves us. Isn't that phenomenal? I love you Mom! Let the whole (cousins too!) family know that I love them and are SO grateful for their support! Love you all, Elder Cevering II