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Hello Family & Friends, Blog & Facebook readers: This week has been really good! It was the final week of the transfer and so me and Elder Cason were trying to finish the tranfer strong with a lot of appointments and talking to as many people as we could. The past 6 weeks has gone so fast with Elder Cason (I think Christmas and New Years helped with that). But on Saturday night we got a call and he is going to serve in Redlands and Elder Clement is coming in to be with me.No way that is so awesome that you guys got to hang with the Yokshas family (Haha, maybe someday you will spell & say their name right, lol). I miss them so much! I bet you had a blast! Haha, hopefully they didn't tell you too many embarrassing stories of me and my hollow leg, powdered surgar, etc. stories haha ... I Love you Yokshas Family! Did you guys tell Susan not to make out with any more guys under bleachers? Did Joseph and Cassie hit it off .. is Elder Veater done for?? Tune in next time.....So starting yesterday morning to right now I have been struck with a cold! It stinks major lamanites! My eyes have been watering non-stop and at church everyone was saying how cute I was because they thought I was crying that Elder Cason was leaving... I just played along haha.. I went and got some of those Vitamin C packett thingies and it has helped a little... hopefully I'll get over it.... Brenda is saying so many prayers for me (she texts us prayers everyday.)So me and Elder Cason went over to one of our elderly investigators this week (Arlitha Franklin) [ya, everyone laughs and gets hyped up about the name because of it's closeness with Arethra Franklin - but she just says back "I wish I had da money"]. She is actually in love with one of the members of our ward Jerry Owen (who does not love her back) she says the spirit came down and told her that they were supposed to be together... uhhhhhh The spirit said what? haha, so we commited her to come to church and to be baptized and she excepted... now just within the comming weeks it is our duty to determine if she has a REAL testimony or just an infatuous one for Brother Owen... She is one crazy lady though, some of the stuff she says we just have to blert out because of the explicity of it! So on Saturday night we went to the Lockes (the less-actives) and gave a lesson on the Plan of Salvation. Well thinking that one of their kids is a little "special" I thought to myself and got some sticky notes out and drew it up for them. Well during the whole lesson he played with them and licked off the markers and made squeeky sounds with his fingers to the table so it would annoy us... it did alright! But the good news is God rewards us for doing what he asks ... with one of our worst lessons over there - they CAME to church on Sunday, which was a first in years! And both the parents thanked us for the lesson!We were listening to a talk the other day by Ed Pinegar and he said that "There cannot be truth without testimony". So many times we forget to bear testimony to people around us! We are supposed to represent are Lord and Savior Jesus Christ everywhere speaking truth and within that bearing testimony! I just thought that was something cool :)Oh also something kind of cool is we went to our stake presidents house to eat dinner one night (the Ulicneys). And they were telling us how Elder Cook just was over at their house and spent the weekend there! HOLY! It was cool, I made sure I touched everything that I thought Elder Cook might have touched... [oh, and for those of you who don't know who Elder Quintin L. Cook is (Yokshas Family..haha) He is one of our 12 apostles!!]. Cool huh!Well, I have to go, sorry for the shortness but Elder Cason has to go pack... I heard from him that you (mom) and his mom were chatting on the California Mission website :) That is fun! They have facebook too so anyone can chat with them.Well I love you soo much! Have a great week! I am having a Birthday party this Friday In California Riverside... All are invited ;)Love you all, stay safe, keep bearing testimonies of truth, always laugh and smile!love, ELDER P. MCBRIDE