This week:
Monday: Today was super exhausting for some reason. We went to the zoo here at Moorpark College. They have a learning zoo for the students who want to go on and do things involving animals I guess haha. The zoo was pretty cool but pretty small also. It was fun though because we got to see some fun things like monkeys and lions and stuff like that. We took a quick trip to the Oaks Mall and Elder Campbell somehow convinced me to get my eyebrows threaded.... Literally the worst feeling ever haha. But now I can say my eyebrows are on 'flick'. Our next stop was this place called Dojo Boom, it's a trampoline park just like iJump back in Idaho Falls. It was fun. We had dinner with Bishop at Wood Ranch, which is kinda like Texas Roadhouse haha. We visited with Laura and checked up on her and then we saw Dean and partied with him haha. But on the real, Dean is a super cool guy, he always has many words of wisdom.
Tuesday: Today was really weird to say the least. So Elder Campbell is the district leader and he and the other district leader from the zone had to go to a Mission Leadership Council meeting in Oxnard. So myself and the other district leader's companion, Elder Pack, were on a sort of exchange until they got back from MLC. We worked in Elder Pack's area in Thousand Oaks. We started the day trying to get a phone that had a SIM card in it. It was difficult and took up the entire morning. We had service for two different people but the first service appointment had to be postponed due to some heavy rain. And our second service opportunity was indoors. We worked on moving furniture and boxes into the garage of the house because the owners are moving out. That was pretty fun but kind of tiring. Then we headed back home and waited there until our companions got back. Two hours later is when they showed up which also happened to be two hours after their meeting ended. Also Oxnard is only around a 30-45 minute drive to Thousand Oaks. So that was interesting. Back with Elder Campbell we picked up dinner from a member family, the Robert's, super grateful for cause I hadn't really eaten anything during the rest of the day. Elder Campbell got tangled up in a Brazilian Jiu-jitsu match at a mutual activity for the youth haha. It was pretty cool! And then we headed home for the day feeling pretty exhausted.
Wednesday: Today was really funny! We had a DLC meeting to make plans for our districts and the new things Elder Campbell learned at MLC. For lunch we kinda played a little prank on one of the Spanish sister missionaries haha we told then that I had decided to go home early. And one of the hermanas was just really distressed about it haha. But we eventually told them when we showed up to a district lunch and I was still out here haha. Our dinner was with the Zeedik's, they are super cool! They have twin boys around the age of 12 or 13. But they are hilarious. Anywho we continued our day of work when we had a mini exchange with the zone leaders in our area just trying to find and weed out some of the potentials that aren't super solid. We met a few people that were somewhat interested and a lot of them asked us to come back! We met some members, the Liddell's, and visited with them. We talked about ideas for helping the youth become more inclined to do missionary work. Brother Liddell is in the stake young men's presidency so he had a few good ideas. It was a pretty good last little bit of hard work that we did. It was great!
Thursday: Bummer today! Elder Campbell has caught a nasty head cold. So we have stayed in most the day. We did have dinner with the Scheu's but aside from that we can't leave the apartment. It's alright though!
Friday: Day 2 of sickness, Elder Campbell has gotten a little worse. But he is persevering. We stayed in again. He is going to rest and try to get better!
Saturday: Another day inside! Hopefully Elder Campbell is on the latter end of the cold. We got some medicine for him and he got a big thing of spicy chow mein to maybe help clear his sinuses.
Sunday: Elder Campbell is feeling quite a bit better today so we went to church and during our Ward Council meeting we went over the ward mission plan! It was just a rough draft but it's looking pretty good. We really want the ward to excel at missionary work, they are already pretty great at it but hopefully the plan will be beneficial. After church we had dinner and then we went to Dean's house again and chatted with him. Hopefully we can peak his interest in the Gospel!
- Elder Smith
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