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HEY what's up!
How are you all doing? Hope everyone had a great week. Happy 97th Bday Grandma Edna and Nicole - hope your suprise baby shower was .. suprising (haha - did you conect that is what I wouldn't tell you?!)
Well as for whats new with me, transfers came up this week and I got the kick out of Indio (Palm Desert Zone). After 7 and a half months the area has come to become like my family. I love everyone there and will miss them so much! Getting the call was like a reality check that my time in serving in specific places is so short (yes, even being 7+ months in the area). But now God is calling me to new places and preparing new people over here in Corona for me.
Seriously my love for people has grown so much. Ugh, I wish I had a week to say my goodbyes.. but they just give us a whopping couple of hours to get in all done - not enough at all. So if there is any I didn't say goodbye to - I love you soo soo much & I will hopefully see you in March!
So now I am in Corona (again) it's weird being back in the area - so many memories flowing back to my head... haha, seeing CrossRoads christian church brought some good memories.. wink wink. I am however not serving in the Citrus Hills & Prado View wards like I used to, I am serving more north in the Temescal Valley ward with Elder Schmidt. [if you want to view a picture of Elder Schmidt you can view the one picture of me and Elder Clements standing outside of our Riverside appartment and that is him - I used to live with him].
I can already tell that me and Elder Schmidt are going to get along good. President Reeves just returned home from a meeting that he had with Elder Clayton (the authority presiding over california) & he said that he wants the mission to return to having 2 zone leaders for a zone - so as I was just coving my whole zone in Palm Desert the changed it so now Elder Schmidt & I are now both zone leaders.
Tomorrow is going to be fun! We are going to get to travel up to Riverside & see another General Authority that is traveling to speak to our mission (Elder Ringwood of the 1st quorum of the Seventy). I will tell you all about it :) He told us to read Moroni 7 before we came to the meeting ... so that is your homework too for over the week, then I will tell you all about it!
I got to talk to Elder Veater Yesterday before he left... ahhh weird to think he is at home with his family now... (haha, am I making you trunky?) But anyway, give him hugs and lots of lovin from me when you see him next week okay! - oh, and the Yokshas's too!
I love you all so much! Keep doing what you know is right and what Jesus Christ would do. I love what Jesus says when he teaches the sermon on the mount, when he teaches the beatitudes: "And blessed are all they who do hunger & thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled with the Holy Ghost" (3 Nephi 12:6), what a promise. Can we say that we hunger and thirst after righteousness?? That is what I am going to try to do these next couple of months. As my shirt that Ryan & Mary gave me for Christmas says "Eat, drink and be Mormon ... Eating & sleeping optional" BE MORMON! Be like Christ and thirst and hunger for righteousness and to do good and if we do we are promised not only the Holy Ghost but life eternal!-- Love, ELDER PATRICK McBRIDEPS.. Send mail to mission office until I can get my address to you :)