So I figured my 6 months left resolution was to actually get up, and stay awake in the morning, since I wake up, and the first thing I have been doing is getting in the shower, not the best idea so I figured I should actually do what the white handbook says and workout. I got an app on the appstore that is called the '7 minute workout' and it basically tells you what to do. It's pretty boss, I really like it. Anyway, so i'm awake now, usually I would be asleep on my chair or the couch right around this point... (it's 7:22 am and i'm eating cereal... cinnamon toast crunch to be exact) so I want to write about yesterday.
yesterday was preparation day, and we had a great day, this past week or whatever I got a gift card from Rocky, he was a guy we taught in Cupertino for a while, we mostly just helped him get a job since he doesn't have many qualifications, so anyway receive a gift card from him for 80 dollars at a restaurant called BJ's, and they don't have a ton of locations, the closest one to us was in San Mateo, which is out of the mission, so naturally we got permission to go to the one in Cupertino that's on Apple's Campus, so I invited the Spanish Elders, Spanish Sisters, and the Stake Sisters. Elder Perez, Harouny, and Sisters Billings, Baird, Schank and Ikegami. I also invited Helena, which I was happy to do.
Our rest of the p-day consisted of going to Daiso, getting a few news things for the house, and going home and napping until 6. That was really nice.
To make a long story short, I didn't make it the rest of the week writing in my journal every day, it's been a rough week in the work, so it's been hard, but here's a new week, so hopefully I will do better.
My companion got sick over the weekend, and so it made it hard to do work over the weekend, but we were able to get some stuff done. Sunday ended up being a lot better of a day than Friday and Saturday. Saturday we had a mission wide conference with Elder Quentin L. Cook there to speak to us. It was an amazing conference, and I felt the spirit for sure. He gave an apostolic blessing upon the mission and gave us some really great council. He was incredibly impressed with the mission, and said about 5 times how important this mission is on many different fronts, how some very important people live in this mission, and I think that included the large Chinese population as well.
It was great, after he left, we had a mission wide conference with President Watkins, you can feel he is leaving soon, and I don't want him to leave. This was the last 'mission wide' conference that he will have as a mission president here. I could feel it as he left (he had to leave early) but I'll have some 1 on 1 time with him before he leaves of course, we still have 1 month zone conference and 2 more interviews with him (one is next week, or this week rather?) and so i'll be looking forward to that.
Other than that, we are working with our investigators, it's just hard to get a time to meet with them right now, Luis, our most promising, we can't even get a hold of right now because of new job and new hours working there. I wish people didn't have to work. It's quite annoying in missionary work.
I just hope everyone has a safe week with all of this snow on the east coast. It's raining here a lot, and it's supposed to keep raining here, makes it hard for us to talk to people on the street, and just biking in general but we'll see how this week goes. This is the most rain I've seen in California since I've been here, and that's not saying much because it only rained 5 days in the year of 2013.
Have a good week,
Elder Sanchez
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