September 18, 2017

Porque Yo Creo

Elder Dayton and Elder Bird (his son)

MOMMA!!

We had a pretty good week! It has been busy, a little stressful and kind of successful! So Saturday we had a party where all the people in the branch from different countries brought different food from their countries and a ton of people came and there were musical numbers and dances and it was a super good time! And actually one of our investigators, Gladys, came which was super surprising actually, haha So that was super fun, then we had church and that Sunday night we had the testimony meeting for recent converts in Oakland called Porque Yo Creo, which we got to go to, Salomon was going to speak, but I think he got super nervous when he saw just how many people were there. So he didn't end up speaking at it, but it was super great to see everyone that went there. I got to see a ton of SF people again which was great! I saw Betty and Kona who I havent seen in almost a year!! Can you believe that!!!! So that was super cool, I got a picture with Betty and I think she took a video of me, haha but idk where that ended up. The HOCO pics looked good! Ya us boys have never been to chatty with you huh haha, sorry it's been that way, it would probably be better if it wasn't like that. And I think the boys will be fine for a few days, Zach is a great baby sitter! 

The Branch is treating me pretty well here, I like them a lot! So the only thing different we do for exercise is we run the days we don't have sports, which is just 2 days out of the week, so it's not that much different haha, but that first run we did I finally realized just how out of shape I am haha. Not much else new happend, we did get a new investigator by trying people on our potentials list, and the sisters found someone for us which was awesome, they are doing super great right now so they're kind of helping us out haha, they totally carry the district! So just yesterday we had a really great time at this English family's house for dinner, they come to the branch and have callings in the youth programs and stuff like that, but the lesson we shared with them was super great, we talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and Brother Perry shared experiences from his mission and it was just super awesome to see him, being a convert when he was youngish, to just testify of the change the gospel has made in his life, and I know that even though we aren't perfect the gospel allows us to try and try and just keep trying! So that was awesome and then we went to Porque Yo Creo (Why I believe) and heard some great testimonys from recent converts so that was also a really good experience! I am tired almost all day long and still a little homesick but I am happy and I love being a missionary and having all of these awesome experiences! I love you so much! Picutes will come in just a minute!!

Favorite picture spot!

pic from the party! Thats Colton, he's one of the Merril's kids, he's a pretty funny guy

Sis Betty with the us Elders (Sorry it's blurry)