So much to say, but I guess I'll go chronilogically, So as you know I ran into Coach Olsen at the airport and he gave me the hooked up with half a dozen krispy kremes and some food and let me use his phone to call, it was sweet and he gave me the low down on the sports world but anyway I loved the airport because everyone stares at you wherever you walk its way funny, The flight was good I was next to a sweet old lady, i thought she died half way through the ride when she was sleeping and was just about to check her breathing but saw her take a breath in finally. I got a good nap in. I woke up as we approached Ontario and It wasnt what i thought. There seemed to be tons of lakes but the with the smog you could only see a mile... not cool. There was a lot more mountains than i thought there would be as well.
Then we met the Mission President and his family and the AP's and they took us to the mission office where we met the sweet old ladies that work there, had orientations, driving tests, and Tons of subway which was a refreshing thing after the MTC. Then we headed to the Mission home and had a get to know each other with sister reeves while we met with President Reeves one by one, then we were put into the room with our potential trainers, it was insane, its like the bachelor or one of those shoes because you look around and wonder which one is going to be your "daddy" in the mission. They had all of us new missionaries (I think 14 of us) bear our testimonies and then they just tell you who your with. Mine was Elder Evans from Twin Falls, Hes a big loving guy who is funny and will be a good trainer I like him a lot and we get along pretty well. After we met we had a big dinner that was so Amazing. Sister Reeves can cook! After that we loaded up and went to our areas. We got to Hemet around ten at night so i didnt see a lot of stuff but there are some groves all around the outskirts and tons of palm trees everywhere.
That next morning I had to go get a bike (mom thats what that charge is on the credit card, you can take the money from my checking i didn't know if it went over so I thought it would be better to be safe then sorry.) Its sweet. John its a Giant I forgot what type its all blaco with white and silver, front suspension, disk brakes, its pretty smooth and a really good bike. After that we visited some people and rode around. The weather is pretty hot but i really like it.
Just so I can compare Hemet to something we can relate to. Where we mainly are is a lot like Dolittle in Vegas. Its pretty sweet a lot of hoods and a lot of crazy. But the outskirts of our area are really rich nice houses so we have a good mix. The second day we went on a media referall and the person wasnt home but there was this little kid named Keenan he was hilarious. He asked to see my hair under my helmet so i took it off and he said "dang you must be broke" haha then he said "its ok Im broke too" hes five yrs old. He tried to hustle us for everything we had, our watches, our pens, he would leave us alone till we gave him something so Elder Evans gave him a pass a long card ha but then he said he needed a pen to write his name. We finally got away from him though.
The next day we were going to help someone move and and we pulled up next to their house there was a pimped out old van. With Music notes on the side, spinners, a stripper pole inside and tvs, it was cool plus there was a huge decal on the top that said "Big Daddy". There was a big guy sitting in the yard in front of it. O and the two elders I live with plus Elder Evans are not very good at confronting people so of course I came out and starting hyping it up and was like dang nice ride and went up and spun the spinners and starting talking to him and their jaws all just dropped and he was so hilarious. HE said he was a barry manilow impersinator so i had him sing a couple songs and he went off about all these topics, he was hilarious and was literally on the ground laughing while the other elders were trying to hold it back because they didnt want to get killed but people like when you laugh at their stories. IT was fun.
That day my tire Popped which was unfortunate and tracking has been the worst. I always have faith but we get shut down for hours at a time. But we are lucky to have people to teach. We have two baptisms coming up on August 23rd and the 30th. One is Oover From Germany he's the man. He's in his 50's and he's loaded but lives in this ghetoo house. He takes us to all these fancy restaurants and he just wants to be baptized so bad. The other is Sara shes 17 and is part of a nonmember family, shes nice as well. The other Crazy we see all the time is a guy I like to call 10-4. Because he always talks like hes on a walkie talkie haha one night we were riding home and heard him singing and playing the guitar, so the next day I asked him when I was going to come over and jam and hes having us over for carne asada soemtime and we'll give him a lesson and ill play some church songs.
But no I like it here. Are ward is sweet. We have this old building with these huge valted ceilings and a sweet backdrop of rock its sweet and we have some poenesians which is cool and a great young mens and relief society. One of the guys in the ward is loaded he owns this whole hill and has zebras and all sorts of exotic animals. Ive seen ostriges as well. ITs funny. There is a recent convert family the Sibles and Keith has only been baptised for 4 months, hes a qward missionary and hes just doin work hes an awesome missionary and he just is an awesome friend and member. This week the Pungs are having a greeny dinner for us. Meaning every thing that we eat is green ill let you know how it goes. I love everyone and miss you kind of at times ha jk but no it will go by fast, ive almost been out a month.
Elder Schallenberger
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