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HELLO Family & Friends!

How many Mormons does it take to change a light bulb? 6
one to plan and prepare for changing it, 2 for the opening prayer, 3 to give a talk on it, 4 for the actual changing of it, 5 for the closing prayer and 6 for refreshments!!
Hope that your last weeks of February 2010 were good and exciting - Can you believe we are already into the third month of the year! HOLY VACA!
The week has been really good. I love the new place in Indio California. Driving from Riverside to here was like a roadtrip - seriously - I hadn't been in a car that long since I got out here - it was like a 1 and a half hour drive out here... I live in the boonies of the mission.. is boonies something bad? - I mean it as I live far away from everyone else. For the first week me and Elder Palmer were pretty much in a foursome with Elder Hulet and Elder Salinas who are spanish missionaries. Their truck was having problems with the air-conditioning and the AP's wouldn't let them go down to their area (which was about another hour away) until they got it fixed, so that took about a week - so we babysat them for a week and had fun.
You know when you just have that feeling of conecting with people - that is what I feel here - like this is the place where I am supposed to be.
Tuesday night we had a really cool miracle happen. We were teaching at our stake presidents house the the Jacksons friends. One lady was less-active and her sister was a non-member. Well all through the lesson people were getting up and it seemed like no one was listening, then at the last part of the lesson we bore testimony and they both started bawling saying that they felt the spirit. The crazy thing was the non-member lady really couldn't understand anything because she spoke spanish and could understand only a little bit if english - but she said that the feeling that she felt was so happy and peaceful. Isn't it cool huh the spirit is a universal feeling. God loves all His childeren & It felt so good to be a tool that my Heavenly Father could work through to bless the lives of His childeren -that don't even speak my language!
Haha, last night I taught something that I have never taught before and never did I think I would be teaching it... I taught MATH!! haha one of our investigators had a test today so last night we went over and she was freaking out - so we taught measurements and math to her and applied it to the gospel. Haha, hopefully I taught her right... but you know me and math.. they go together like tunafish and meatballs!
---- oh speaking of which - I have been craving pumpkin chocolate chip bread from old grist mill - is that okay to send???
Well thanks so much for everything that you do for me! I love you all so much! keep praying for missionary experiences and send me the results! Always have the spirit to be with you! Choose the Right!-- Love, ELDER PATRICK McBRIDE