1 Sep 10 - 8 Sep 10

1:24 PM

Okay everyone, as you may well know, General Conference is just right around the corner. It'll be my third one and once again I'll still be on the west side of the reflecting pool most likely hanging out with some of my missionary friends and being loud and obnoxious as possible. So if you want to come and say hi and maybe take me out to lunch or stick 20$ in my hand to compensate forgetting about my birthday (Sept 22) I wouldn't mind. If anyone would tell me when their birthday was I would gladly send you the best present in the entire world: a picture of me!

I remember for Felicia's birthday I gave her pictures of me and she absolutely loved it. And then for my birthday she gave me pictures of myself and I absolutely loved it! Everyone loves pictures of me! Even me!

So if you can't tell by my words on this screen, I'm still happy with Elder Mitchell. I had interviews with my mission president yesterday and he asked if I want to stay another transfer with him. I said yes and President Winn said okay on two conditions: 1. I get rid of all my "worldly" things and 2. We get rid of the negativity in our companionship. Well, it looks like I'll be saying goodbye to Munchkin... and D&D... and Magic: The Gathering... and King's Blood... and Quiddler... and everything else that takes the stress away from missionary work. But that's okay. I still have my sence of humor and my nearly endless supply of movie quotes and songs. But as for the negativity, I have no clue what P Winn is talking about. We're not negative to each other at all! Only to members who are less than easy to work with and with missionaries who like kissing butt. Can't please everyone though. Guess they'll just have to get used to our shenanigens. Who wants a pic of me and my comp with parted hair, suspenders, our pants hiked up past our navels and really short ties?

Nobody understands us.

As far as the work goes, we nearly dropped all of our investigators who weren't progressing. So our time is mainly spent towards finding people. Which is going slow and we're basically wasting the day, BUT... I got nothing to that.

Talk to ya'll later (hopefully)
Elder Garcia


25 Aug 10 - 01 Sep 10

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 1:09 PM

Hello everyone.

Nothing new to report here. I'm just having to deal with the idiocy of members in one of my stakes. I've never met anyone who hated missionaries as much as these people do. So, my companion and I are either going to do one of two things. First is to drop a couple wards altogether and do no missionary work there whatsoever, or to make a lot of people mad by continuing to do what we've been called to do. Either way, we're in a lose-lose situation and our moral has gone down a tiny bit. Of course in our lose-lose situation, we also win. If we don't work in those areas that don't want work to be done in, we no longer take damage to our moral or to our integrity. Also, if we choose to tick everyone off by continuing to do what we've been called to do, we provide a bit of entertainment on our behalf.

Other than that, life is still good. I have some help with keeping my sanity and Elder Mitchell is still fun to be around. Now I find myself not wanting to go on District/Zone leader exchanges because my leaders are Tools.

So far with the P90X I've lost one pound (huzzah!) and this time, I'll keep it off. I hurt and I'm hungry (because all I'm eating is yogurt and oats for breakfast and lunch). But, my skin feels tight on my body which means that I'm getting stronger. So now my Strength score has gone from a whopping 11 to 12 giving me a +1 to all my skills involving strength. It's too bad my Dexterity is still at 8. Although, I'll settle for an 8 Dexterity with a 15 Charisma any day. If you factor in my new work out, I think my Charisma might have even gone up to 16! HUZZAH!

Okay, so I'm still the same geek I ever was. I find myself thinking at the most random situations WWCBD. What Would Chuck Bartowski Do?

Later everyone
Elder Garcia