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Hello Family and Friends!

How are you all doing? Hopefully well! Well I had a pretty good week here in California - oh and I just have to tell you... it's like 70 degrees outside.. AHHHH feels so good! What a relief from the 105 degree weather!! haha, soon I might be needing to take out my jacket again.. what do ya think...still no snow though :( [I think my hopes of snow this Christmas are a little too high...]
So on Monday Elder Giles moved into the appartment with me. He is a pretty fun kid (he is like 16 months out on his mission). And then on Tuesday Bro. Yokshas picked us up and took us to the "Train the Trainer" meeting in Riverside (in which the AP's taught us how to by good trainers). The meeting was pretty cool, I got to see some of the elders that I have served around. One elders name was E. Potter - and he lives in Logan..hmm small world.. and great last name if I do say so! And then also E. Bosswell was training (I am his mom in missionary lingo terms) he is only 3 months out on his mission too! cool huh!
So after that meeting we went to the mission home to get companioned up with our new missionaries! It was a pretty big incoming (a lot like my incoming) there were 14 new missionaries that came in! We sat in the other room (before we met the missionaries) while President Reeves was finishing his interviews and getting revelation of who to put each missionary with. Then after we all came into their huge living room and had a testimony meeting and got paired up with our new missionaries. My new companion is ELDER FLY! haha and as my mom noted: i get some companions with the weirdest of last names (ex: Veater) haha. After we all received companions we had a great dinner that Sister Reeves made and then went home to Lake Elsinore.
Wednesday we went shopping early in the morning for E. Fly and E. Giles companion (E. Hulet)s stuff. Haha, there was a guy unloading grocieries in the parking lot so we went up to him and the very FIRST person that E. Fly got to talk to the guy was like "You guys are crazy and Nuts!!" haha.. I told E. Fly that that was not what everyone was like.. haha, kind of sad that was his first contact, lol. Then I got to show him around the trailor park to Bro. Gragson and Sis. Lopez.. haha they both shared their stories to him of how they were drug adicts on the street and homeless and how that impacted their life... he was like "uhhhhhh" - maybe I should have saved them for week 2??? NAH!! Then we went to E. Flys first dinner in the mission at the Divines and we had planned a "greenie meal" for E. Fly and so she had dyed EVERYTHING green : chicken, corn, mac and cheese, butter, punch, and the only thing that wasn't dyed green was the broccoli.. haha pretty fun!!!
This week me and E. Fly have talked to so many people. I think with being Senior Comp. and Training someone it gives me the extra push to go and talk to everyone we see! Haha, I asked E. Fly if he thought anything would be different then what it was in the mission already... and he said well I didn't think that I would have a trainer who was as excited and happy as you... haha ... haha, I believe that's a good thing?? haha
So we are going to have a baptism this Sunday! Anna Melton is going to get baptized! I am so happy for her, she is a great girl.. She does have a little teenage girl syndrome.. but can we judge her for that.. haha wish her luck!
Everything else is going good, I am loving Lake Elsinore better. We had a fun luah on Saturday with the ward! Stay safe everyone, love ya soo much!
Love
Elder McBride