November 30, 2009

I'm glad to hear that everyone is getting older except for you. It sounds like you are beating the system.

We had a crazy week. Immigration came to a part-member illegal family the day before Thanksgiving at 2 o'clock in the morning. They banged on the door for 40 minutes. The sister asked, "Who are you looking for?" They didn't know who they were looking for and the family didn't answer the door.

The old lady had just decided she wanted to be baptized, but has to stay in Riverside for a little while. We are going to go look at houses with them.

Love,
James

Happy Birthday Mom!

( a letter to Cheri)

Happy Birthday Mom!

We spent Thanksgiving at a members house , and they fed us regular Turkey and Mashed Potatoes. I hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving dinner.

I have seen lots of parents who let their kids do whatever they want. The kids are all lazy bums or super rebellious.

All of us kids turned out pretty good. Except for Julia, of course. (ha ha, just kidding) That means you did a good job. Thank you for not letting us be the lazy bums we wanted to be.

Enjoy the Christmas season.
Love,
The James

November 23, 2009

Yes, we crushed those old guys 32 to 14. 5 out of 5 times I got on base. Out of the 5 times I got on bases I scored 4 times. I did miss some catches in the outfield, but our 32 runs made up for it.

The investigators we are teaching are:

Guadalupe, a Grandma whose kids are members (has been coming to church)

Ysidra and her daughter Sandra. We found them tracting.

Freddy, nonmember son of an active family (came to church Sunday)

Eric and Oscar, kids of a recently baptized woman and less active man who served a mission (came to church Sunday)

We are going to a member's house on Thanksgiving. They used to live in Temecula when I was there. They moved here and now they are in the ward again.

Love,
Elder Meiners

November 16, 2009

That's a bummer that everybody was split up. Columbia 1st Ward does have some cool families like the Olsens.

We've had a few at church the last couple weeks. Noone that sticks out really.

We live with a missionary who extended his mission for 30 days. He just went home but there are still two weeks until transfers. That means the missionary who lives with us doesn't have a companion. He will be rotating between going out with priests in his ward, going with us, and going with another set of missionaries.

Elder Juarez is doing good. He's still getting used to everything.

We lost softball to the old people again. Not my fault. I was 2 for 3.

Love,
Elder Meiners

November 9, 2009

We found a really sweet investigator this week names Ysidra. We will visit her Tuesday. There are some other investigators too. Pretty normal things happening.

My companion, Elder Juarez, is from Canada. He's a lot of fun. He already speaks Spanish. We are keeping ourselves busy.

We lost to the old guys in softball in the ninth inning two weeks in a row. Pretty embarrassing.

E. Meiners

November 4, 2009

I have about 3 minutes left, but that is cool how Jared is coming here. It will be interesting to see if he will serve around me. 2 minute lef.t All is well. All is good.I'm glad you're not wasting your energy by worrying about me.

Love,
Elder Meiners