Email January 27, 2014

Hello! How has everyone's week been? I hope it has been great. :) Well! I guess to get it all started and out of the way: this week was hard No it's not my companion and no it's not homesickness or anything. I love Elder Perkins! He is a really funny guy and we have similar personalities and we get along pretty well. He is a hard worker and has showed me a new way to use the Area Book iPad app. It's fantastic! We are out and about all day, knocking doors, trying to visit less active and inactive members, and visiting members for referrals. So to explain why it was a bad week: we were out all day every day knocking doors and trying to find new investigators, trying to find and visit less active and inactive members, and getting referrals, but despite all of the heat (it's getting in the 70's! January?! Speaking of which, Northern California is in a massive drought, one of the biggest reservoirs is under 15%...) and biking and hard work, we only have 2 people who could become investigators, we had a few less active/inactive members turn us away, and a hecka ton of doors slammed in our face. So I'm loving how hard we work because it is fantastic, but is week was pretty hard because we saw so little success. Blech! But this week will be better! We are both sure of it! So Elder Perkins is originally from Arizona, moved to Price, and then lived in Spanish Fork for about a year before coming on his mission. He is a funny guy, our personalities mesh well, and we enjoy each other's company and work well together and yeah. We are doing a lot of work and being more obedient and we are looking forward to a bright future in the near future...that was redundant. :D anyway, so far so good, prayers answered amazingly. My testimony of faith has grown very much. Title story! So we were trying to visit a less active member and so we knock on this door and the person who answers is a 20ish year old Hispanic guy. He's not the person we were looking for, but he knows who we are because he has talked to missionaries in the past. So anyway, we ask him if he would be interested in lessons again and he said I guess so, so we start taking down his name. "Rigo Orjel." (Sounds like or-hel) and so I say it back trying to sound like him when he said it and he says, slightly disbelievingly, "Are you white?". "Well...yeah, haha. I am white." "Whoa. You are the first white person to ever say it perfectly." "Sweet!" Haha it was suuuuuuper funny. He's a really nice guy, we gave him our names and our number and he said he would call us later. Woo, hopefully something comes from it! Anyway, I have a couple other stories I want to share, but I can't because I have no time so hopefully next week!! Guys. Even though times get hard, The Lord loves us. The Lord loves you personally. Don't ever forget that. I listened to S. Michael Wilcox's "The Fourth Watch" talk this morning. I highly recommend listening to it! Heavenly Father is there, always. I love you, and Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love you! Have the best week possible! Love, Elder Cevering #2