Elder Field Is Still On The Hunt For Investigators

Hey Friends and family! Hope everything is going good for you guys!

So unfortunately today I don't have a lot of time to email. The reason being is we are going to the temple on Friday!!!! I'M SO FLIPPING EXCITED!!! It's strange how much I miss the temple as a missionary. We are going to the Oakland Temple once again, which I'm pretty pumped about. It's a really beautiful temple. So due to the temple trip we will be having only a half P-Day today. Which means we only have till about 2 to email shop and get everything done for today. So this email won't be too long, but I always say that and it ends up being really long ;)

Anywho! this week wasn't to eventful, just a ton of finding as per usual. Not much success, BUT we have an awesome member named Warren Powell. He is 83 and has a tesla and is just a super cool guy, well he is also one of the best member missionaries I have ever seen. He moved into the ward about 3 weeks ago. And he gave us 2 referrals. He even gave them Book of Mormons! One of them was named Carlos, he didn't pan out unfortunately but the other one kinda did! Her name is Sena, she is a lady that brother Powell lives next to. He gave her a book of Mormon and asked if we could come over and teach her. So we went over after church on Sunday and met her. We weren't able to teach her anything because she was getting her kids down for a nap, but she sounded pretty excited to have us over. So we will be going over next Sunday right before church to teach her about the Restoration!! She isn't considered a new investigator yet, but she has lots of potential and I'm thanking God every day just for that fact alone haha. We actually got back into contact with the investigator the Sisters were teaching. We dropped by her house also on Sunday. We had tried calling and calling but she never answered. The one time she did answer she was busy and said she would call us back. She didn’t. So we decided to let it die down for a bit. But while looking at our map we just felt like we should just go try to drop by and see how she was doing. She opened the door after we knocked and was really friendly. She told us about how crazy it's been the past couple of weeks. She wanted to let us in but they had just sat down for dinner so we set up an appointment for this Thursday at 4 pm! So wish us luck!!! We are hoping we can just get to know her and see where she is at on the teaching process :D

Anyway, that's the most exciting thing to have happened this week. We had Zone Conference this week which was nice! I got to see all my San Rafael homies! Sister Jeffrey, Sister Nelson, Elder Siebach, Elder Hall, Hermana Foste,r and all those peeps down there. It was nice to see them and chill with them. We learned a lot of really awesome stuff in zone conference like how to have no fear in contacting. So confession time guys....... I am terrified to talk to people. It doesn't stop me from actually doing it, but I'm so nervous every time I try to go do a contact. Especially when I try to start it. If it's a natural conversation. Easy peesy, but just trying get people to stop and talk to me. Freak man, I want to poop myself every time I try. But I learned a lot of good stuff that hopefully will help my contacting :)

Let's see what else did we do. We did some service for a member who is moving, some service for Ginger again. Idk if you guys remember me telling you about her but she is the older woman who needs help moving. So we go over and help her out every week for about an hour or so. We also helped out with the Santa Rosa Women's conference. We were served the food. So I got to wear an apron and everything! I had a little too much fun with it to be honest.

We met some really awesome members this week as well! We met the Platt family! They are super cool. They have 4 kids and we probably had the most fun dinner I have had on my mission thus far. Robyn their oldest daughter freaking roasted me hard core the entire dinner. She is 16 years old and is just freaking funny. To sum up the dinner conversation, Various Internet quotes, songs were sung, 2015 dance moves were busted out, and just a jolly old time was had. Twas a lot of fun. They signed up for dinner again and we are super pumped haha. We also met Elder KENWORTHY’s grandmother. That's right I guess she is in the ward and she is so stinking funny. Had dinner with them on Sunday night.

Anyway I think that is pretty much it for this week I hope you all know I love you lots! And wish you all a wonderful week!

Love you!

-Elder Riley Field

So I'm slacking on the pictures so I will do better in the future but here is a small part of my area. Lots of vineyards here.