In the Field

Dear family,

   I would like to say that I love you all, and that I am doing well here. My address is  6541 Woodruff Place, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91701  I can't remember the last day that I sent to you guys so i will start on the 19th.

1-19-16

   I woke up all sore, all over, because we played basketball and Beep the previous day. Elder Chamberlain had us do a killer workout on our abs. I have never been so happy to take a cold shower. It was district meeting today and it was basically everyone talked about teaching repentance and baptizing converts. It rained after the meeting (the great and terrible day of EL NINO) that was not so great and terrible and was rather short lived. We went to visit Steve and instead of finding Steve we found a family living there instead. We tracted and found no one, we then had dinner with the Mcbrides, and we taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

1-20-16

   We had a missionary Broadcast to day it was properly enlightening, I particularly liked David A. Bednar's Q and A section. We taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a less active named Rowland, and then we tracted the rest of the time until we met with Christain and Jenna, we had a member there and it was awesome. We latter met with Ryan and he was with his sister because his sister was having complications with her baby, he asked us to pray for his sister and the baby.

1-21-16

    Today we started off by giving service to a farm that grow squash for free and for anyone. We moved soil media, and their version of what dirt should be (its more sand than it is dirt). And people have the craziest idea's and misconceptions of Missouri, and during this interrogation of the kid from Missouri, I slipped into a southern accent, and they said because of my Military like conduct (Do I act like I have a military like conduct, and if so have you ever noticed that about my character?) that the true patriots of the USA come from the Mid-west not the south. They also that the people from Missouri are a bunch of inbred hicks and hill billy's. (Don't worry I proved them wrong, FAMILY HISTORY). We were fed lunch there, the soda they gave us was 3-4 years out of date. We later went tracting and we ran into the president of the gun club, and of course the Missourian in me came out and we had a wonderfully awesome conversation about guns. He then offered to take me shooting with him because I wasn't afraid of guns, we had to explain to him that as missionaries we aren't allowed to handle guns so he said to visit him after the mission and go shooting. We then helped him by moving the shelves for him so that they are closer to the door for him to grab his stuff and be gone in a moments notice. We latter went to Wendy's and had dinner. It was okay, I don't think that I will be able to eat there more than 2 times a month for myself, because of the way that I have budgeted my money:) We then taught a Less active and we went over and were late by A LOT to mission Correspondence with the ward.

1-22-16

   Well we wanted to contact more people so we decided that we need to better clean the Apartment and our desks (and just so that you all know, my stuff was all neatly folded stacked and put away so you can stop the looks of disbelief.) We then had dinner with the Powells and raced off to our next appointment and we got our new investigator to commit to Baptism. By the end of the day it was so late and we were so tired because we were weekly planing that our brains were like the inside of a 1/2 lbs Reeces peanut butter cup, mush, and the best thing to go with mush as a brain is guess what... Sleep deprivation.

1-23-16

   We helped a widow move some mattress and we talked to a guy who was bible bashing on GOD and the weakness of man. (He should take a look in the mirror) because he was a preacher but never went to church. We taught a lesson to more less actives and we tracted more. We then had dinner ribs, potatoes, broccoli,( which I will have you know tasted better if you put BBQ sauce on it) and carrots.

1-24-16

   I studied in Isaiah and I agree with Nephi that Isaiah did speak plainly, to the understanding of the jew, but thanks to the foot notes I understood. Christian and Jenna didn't make it to church.

I love you all, and don't you forget it.

    Yours in the service of the Lord,

       Elder Ammon Van Engelenhoven