Life is Pleasant

            San Jose is awesome. The bomb.com. I love it here! The members are super kind here. My companion is an awesome guy. Elder Kerby is his name and we don’t have a ton in common but we both enjoy deep doctrine, being on missions, working hard and eating well. Elder Kerby is my trainer or my "dad" and he has taught me so so much. I have grown dramatically from him. I love him. It was sad to leave the MTC but it really is an empty sea when it comes to missionary work. The real fishing is out here in the field. :) My companion has been out for only three weeks and he is the district leader and is training! Super solid good guy. My mission president is a super nice man. Super kind and really loves his missionaries.

            Pleasanton is amazing! Everyone here is super nice. I feel so at home here? We have had dinner every night. There are two million dollar homes all over. It’s so crazy! The CEO of Safeway is in my ward. I am in the very best area in the mission. The Pleasanton 2nd ward is incredible! There have been so many cool cool missionary moments! There are a bunch of really missionary minded people and really wealthy people as well. I love it! I am so happy here. There is nowhere else I would rather be. It’s not a huge area, but not a tiny one at the same time. I will get some more specific details once I figure them out. I love, love, love the work! The members are friendly and I have already seen the change that happens in people’s lives from the gospel! I love it so much! So much stuff happens every day that it’s hard to write it all down. It’s crazy. I love it. The Church is true, the Book is blue, God love you and I do too! Missions rock!

            I have been learning a lot from my trainer and I honestly feel 100% comfortable with being here and I feel that the ward is turning into my family. I still have a long way to go to being a real son, but I am on the right path.

            We have lots of success upcoming. Three investigators with a baptismal date already! It’s really good. We had 30 lessons this week which is quite impressive. We taught a lesson to a couple who had been married for 3 years and it was on the plan of salvation. Laura and Robert were really willing to listen. It was really cool because I got to teach the lesson and I asked them what they would be willing to do to attain the celestial kingdom. Robert without pausing looked me straight in the eyes and said "follow the gospel" I have no doubt that he will follow it all the way! It’s really amazing to see the change that the gospel can bring to people. I know that the Lord is working through me and that brings me the most joy out here. 

We are on a car share so we get the car Tues-Thurs. Other than that we walk or ride bikes. It’s awesome!  The weather is seriously perfect. Never a bad day! We come home tired every day.

          A spot of bad news. My carry-on got either lost or stolen. It’s gone. The good news was that it was only ties, my books, letter writing stuff, and a binder that was lost. The bad news is that my Wonder Journal (a journal he kept of when he felt the Spirit each day) is gone. It breaks my heart. I have faith though. Believing is something that at first seems impossible is true faith! My mission president is super kind. I told him it was gone and he went out and bought me more ties! He also said to get him a list of what was in there and he will get it for me. Don’t worry. I am well taken care of over here. There were three of us who lost stuff. I got off the easiest. Another elder lost his gps, electronics and scriptures. I am really doing fine.

          The food here is super super nice! We generally have steak once or twice a week and there are a lot of really nice places that members take us out to eat at. It’s super cool! I can have anything I basically want to eat and we have so much candy at our house. It’s awesome.

          I thank the Lord for this chance to serve and although it’s been hard at moments, I am so so so blessed to be here and be serving where I am. 

Ammon and Elder Kerby at a member's house. They sent us the photo. Tender mercy.