Baldwin Village Week 05

Parking at University of Southern California

You know, it's ironic. Usually the week after temple p-day I don't have much to say because its only been a few days....that is definitely not so this week! haha!



First of all, we had a really neat experience involving the police this week! Now, don't freak out everyone. Remember how I mentioned that we needed to move apartments? Well, it's because someone broke into our apartment. We had to file a police report and on Thursday we got a call back from an officer who was asking if he and his partner could come by our apartment and do an on-site report. We grabbed a member and went to our house. When they showed up and as he was sitting at the table writing some stuff down he says, "Man, your apartment is a lot cleaner than the ones I had when I was on my mission".

Our jaws pretty much hit the floor.

He was a member!

Another missionary showing how.

And so he started telling us crazy mission stories of his from when he was serving in New York City. Their apartment got robbed too and the whole crazy fiasco is what led him to want to be a police officer! Cool, huh? He started asking us how the work was going, what ward we served in, how big out area was, etc. And then he gave us some tips on how to be safer and what-not, took some pictures and left. It was a very pleasant visit. Also, his partner was a younger lady and she was not a member, and so she was asking us questions about how much time we spend in the apartment, and little bit about the church. So, I'm sure that they had a gospel discussion in the squad car after they left (no matter how brief it may have been) SO a blessing coming from all of this - MISSIONARY WORK! WOW! Heavenly father is pretty amazing at what he does, wouldn't you say?


As for our housing situation, we are still living in the apartments behind the visitor center, which means we've had a 30 minute commute into our area everyday. Except for one day, we forgot to take traffic into consideration and were stuck on the 10 for an hour. However, it's kind of nice being in a nicer area, we feel really safe and there's a lot of shopping around :) not that we can do that during the week, but on p-days (like today) it opens up a whole new world of opportunities.

Our teaching pool has really picked up lately. We are currently teaching this awesome girl named Nxxxxx. She goes to USC and is double majoring (aka she's really smart) but she has a good friend  that she grew up going to church with who recently converted to our church and is in the MTC preparing to serve a mission in Russia, and so she started coming to church to check it out. She's been attending for the past month and she's amazing. She asks so many great questions and has such a desire to learn the truth and to expand her faith in Jesus Christ. She wants to find a place where she can constantly be learning and expanding her gospel knowledge, not just a "feel good church". Our lessons have been going wonderfully and so it's been a great experience. I haven't taught a girl in like, forever, and so it's been a really cool experience! We also were able to contact another student this week who picked up all of our pamphlets at an interfaith fair they had recently on campus. He said he's be interested in activities and institute and so we called and set up a return appointment for this week, we can't wait to meet him! The Lord is blessing us despite the CRAZY week we've had...

Also we are working with a woman named Dxxxxxxx and her 10 year old son.  They are preparing for baptism on the 29th! They've been taught for about 4-5 months and they really love the Gospel. It's exciting to see them preparing and working towards a goal after all this time. Heavenly Father is so proud of them, I can just feel it. In fact, Dxxxxxxx was reading her Book of Mormon during her break at work and one of her co-workers saw it and started giving her a hard time about it.  Do you know what she did? She defended it like crazy and even convinced him that it wasn't a replacement to the Bible! Look at her go! Ah I wish I could have been there, it sounds like it was a great conversation :)

Turtle belongs one of our wee friends.

Deskins with an identity crisis.(i.e. We discovered she had the wrong tag after we got to our work area. No time to go back)

100 + weather in the sun!!

100 + weather huddled in the shade waiting for an appointment.

Well, time is short and I'm starving so I'm gonna go write President and grab some lunch :) HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK ALL!


Hermana Hensley

PS - Next week is transfers...AH!! Can you believe it??