Lots of exchanges

Sorry I didn't send an email last week! It was a hectic day and unfortunately emailing was the thing that got cut short. It was a pretty good week, some cool miracles but all in all a pretty regular missionary week.

This week was also pretty crazy. The transfer is getting close to ending so there were still a couple more exchanges to go on, one with our district leader and one with the assistants, and then we also had a day where we mixed up the entire zone so I was all over the place. On Wednesday I got to go to the Tijeras Canyon ward with one of my good friends Elder Kenner. We had a fun day and had a couple good visits with some of the less active members that they have been working with. The very next day I went to the Newport Coast YSA ward with Elder Everett, one of our assistants to the president. We had a fun day inviting people to the institute lunch class and then trying to find some new move ins that their bishop asked them to track down. We actually managed to get in contact with all four of them that we tried and were able to get the information that we wanted from them and to give them the information about ward activities that we wanted to share with them. It might not sound like that much but it was a pretty big miracle. Usually as a YSA missionary when you go out "less active" hunting you don't get very far so Elder Everett and I were pretty excited for that. We got to have dinner with the Thach's in the South Coast ward, we have both served there previously. It was fun to catch up with them. After dinner we spent some time trying to find a couple of investigators there in Santa Ana. It was fun to walk the streets of that crazy city and talk about fun times there with somebody else who has a love for that place. On Saturday I got to go to the Lake Forest ward with Elder Van Orden, one of the missionaries actually in that ward, and Elder Summers, one of my companions from my time in that ward. We had an amazing day. We went by some people that Elder Summers and I used to visit and work with and we were able to set up appointments for Elder Van Orden and his companion to go by them again and we were able to catch up with some old friends. Yesterday all four of the Castillos came to church once again. In Gospel Principles the lesson was on the Atonement and our ward mission leader did a really good job and at the end Pedro said it was a very touching lesson. It is so cool to see that family progressing and to see the love they have developed for the gospel. 

I'm loving it here and I'm so excited to be in such a great place with such great people for the last little bit of my mission. I know for a fact that they are good and that I need to be here with them.

Love

Elder Cheever