Elder Field Wishes You All a Happy Thanksgiving!!

Why I do my subject lines in third person? I’m not sure, but I’m going to keep going with it :D
This week was good. Busy, but really good :D I went on exchanges with Elder Pederson (district leader) on Tuesday and Thanksgiving on Thursday which was really freaking fun hahaha :D
Any who Monday we didn’t do much except email home and just hang out as a district all day. I have noticed how tight of a family we have become as a district :D Everyone is super fun and super chill but are all really hard working. But when we get together we know how to have fun :D I love my district!!

Tuesday was exchanges with Elder Pederson. So I was in the Spanish area..... Man I hate/love exchanges with Spanish missionaries. I love them because I get to go and meet polite Spanish people instead of angry white ones ;) I also love them because I really don’t have to prepare much. I just go and sit in the lesson and distract the children if necessary. I hate them because I have no freaking clue what is going on 90% of the time. I don’t understand Spanish very well which is sad.... I should have paid better attention in my 2 years of Spanish in High school haha or should i say JAJAJA........ I’m sorry...... that was a lame joke......... I couldn't resist though....... But other than not understanding what was being said (and I’m pretty sure at one point my companion and them were talking about me because they kept looking at me and laughing....... awkward....) I still had a grand old time kickin' it in the Spanish Area :D I did make a new best friend though. At dinner this little girl who I think is maybe 2 or 3 years old who I played catch with after dinner. She is probably the most adorable little girl I have ever met hahahah. She would inform me if I was doing something wrong and laugh if I did it wrong again..... I had a little too much fun haha

Wednesday was just the good ol' food bank service we do every week! Except this one was different because Thanksgiving was the next day. so we gave them a box with ingredients to make a good thanksgiving meal. It wasn't anything special or fancy just enough for a 1-person thanksgiving meal. But it was cool. I got to put my Warehouse experience to the test because I was the one restocking the boxes as they ran out. I also was the one moving pallets hahah. Made me feel like home :D it was fun. Had a lovely Pizza dinner with the Schroeders, shared a message and then headed out to do that good missionary work. Knocked some doors, nothing, made some calls, nothing, went over to an investigators house for an appointment, she wasn't home. Kind of a rough night but we stayed strong and continued to hunt for the people God has prepared..... They are out there I know it..... somewhere hahahah We decided to go visit one more less active and we knocked on the door and she let us in. Turns out her husband is a non-member too!! Now whether he is interested or not that is yet to be determined. We got to know them and found out that Dan (the husband) works for a special effects company that works for Lucas films. So he does the special effects for Star Wars and other movies like that. So that’s pretty stinking awesome! Me, Dan, and Bethanne (the wife who is a less active member) Nerded/geeked out for a bit while elder Magee sat and just stared at us like we were speaking a different language hahaha. We shared a short gospel message with them and asked if we could come over again and share more of a lesson with them. They said sure and we scheduled a time for early December. (they were going out of town for thanksgiving otherwise they would have met earlier) I’m pretty pumped about going and seeing them again :D

Thursday was Thanksgiving!!! It was awesome. I had a lot of time to reflect all the things I was thankful for. So here is the list I came up with -

Music

The Scriptures

Christ

The Priesthood

My Patriarchal Blessing

Family

Concerts with My Aunt Annie

Video Games with my Dad

Dorky things I do with my Sister Danika

Afternoon Ellen Episodes with my Mom

Being the Oldest in my family, that way I can see the little ones grow up

The atonement

All my extended family both blood and not (i.e. Smiths, Walkers, etc.)

My Friends 

The chance to serve a mission

The Gospel

My Theatre and Choir classes and Teachers. 

Technology (Even though I really hate smartphones now... Ask me about it)

Life

Light

Hard trials Even though they REALLY suck

Comfy pants

TREES 

Beaches 

Pretty much all of Nature

That’s just a short version of the list I came up with earlier. Thanksgiving was awesome. Even though it was tough being away from the family, I know I’m in the right place at the right time doing the right thing. We had a really nice family The Schroeders (I mention them a lot ;) ) had us over for dinner. They had some of their family over and we just were adopted right in. It was nice. That night we set up for Christmas hahahah hopefully the Pictures will send this week....... they didn't last week.... LAME

Friday we had a really cool experience. After the usual weekly planning we went to go see an investigator who has a baptismal date. (we did not extend this baptismal date. Let me explain. Whilst I was sick that one week, the sisters got a referral about some lady that they needed to go see IMMEDIATELY, so being the diligent missionaries they are they didn't think twice and went and saw her. After talking for a little bit this lady was expressing deep desires to get baptized. She they extended a baptismal date for December 17th she accepted and there was joy and happiness. Well this lady then proceeded to tell them that she meets with another set of missionaries. The sisters realize that they extended a baptismal invite to one our investigators hahaha. It’s all good. Celeste wanted to talk to missionaries so she just referred herself again. So the referral just went to the sisters instead of us. She had our phone number but lost it hahaha. Oh well. She has a baptismal date now! hahaha hopefully she can start keeping commitments...... I’m praying she will so now she has become a combined investigator between us so it’s fun) We got to her house and she was asleep her son told us to come back tomorrow. So with an hour left in the night before going home. We decided to go to down town San Rafael. They were having a carnival of some sorts, so we all thought it was a good idea to go contacting. We went and as soon as we parked we all got a pretty good feeling about being there. So we were walking and this guy just looked at us for a bit smiled and walked up to us and started talking to us. We talked about what we were doing as missionaries, what that entails, we got to know him a little bit, he is just the nicest dude ever. His name is Will.  We talked to him about the Christmas initiative :D:D:D:D:D (Which if you guys don't know what that is go look up #LightTheWorld right now!)  He loved it! we even gave him a Book of Mormon. He mentions he loves reading and will definitely take a look at it! We gave him our phone number so hopefully he will call us. Don't know if he will but there is still a chance. The reason he stopped to talk to us was because, and I quote "You guys just seem different, y’all were putting off good vibes so I had to come talk to you. I’m glad I did though! You guys are super nice! And I loved talking to you!" After that you can imagine we were feeling awesome! So we went and tried to talk to some more people.......... no success what so ever...... I was kind of feeling a little discouraged but afterwards we were discussing how the night was. Even though we only talked to 1 person that night. We all thought the night was a huge success. That just goes to show that we are just out here to find those individuals. Not groups of people. But individuals who would benefit from the gospel. Just thought that was really cool :D

The rest of the weekend wasn't filled with anything exciting so I will spare you the details but I don't know about you guys, but I’m so freaking excited for Christmas!!! The tree is set up and we are only getting more and more decorations hahaha!

Oh I guess there is one other thing. On Saturday I got something in the mail. It was a small envelope addressed to me from Dorcus Woodward. (My Friend Ian's mom) I opened it up and about freaking cried. In this envelop was a paper Christmas tree. With small photos of all my friends on their missions, and their favorite scriptures on the photo as ornaments. With a really amazing quote. I will send a photo (I added the photo of Jesus at the top of the tree. Hopefully you can zoom in on it and read quote) So I guess this is a shout out to all of my friends who are on missions right now, thank you all so much for the example you have put forth to me. And thank you for sticking with me through high school. I can’t wait to hear what miracles you all performed while on your missions. I love you all!! And thank you sister Woodward so much for this gift. It really means a lot to me. Thank you!

Anyway! I love you all and miss you like crazy! hopefully you all had a good week!

Until next week!
-Elder Riley Field

Christmas photos!!!!!!

The brought snow to down town San Rafael for the carnival!!! hahah!

The Christmas tree with all my friends on it.

Me and Pederson putting up the Christmas tree

Elder Field Was Taken By The Plague....

Well this week wasn't too eventful unfortunately. As you all can tell by the subject line twas not a good week for our apartment health wise haha!
Also! Apparently my weekly email didn't send last week..... I totally sent one.... don't know why it decided to die and not send..... well last week wasn't too exciting anyway hahah.

Monday. WE WENT TO THE BEACH!!

It was so cool!! The entire day we chilled on the beach. So freaking relaxing! :D took some really cool photos and just hung out with the other missionaries. I don't have ALL the pics we took but I will retrieve them and send them with next week’s email haha. But I do have a few and they are pretty stinking awesome! After dinner we went and helped the sisters out with a lesson. It was with their investigator named Jim. Such a cool lesson!!!! So he was pretty concerned with not knowing everything. He had a break through last night. He was starting to get overwhelmed a little bit in the middle of the lesson. So we let him sit and think for a bit and he suddenly looked at us and said. "It’s ok. I guess I don’t need to know EVERYTHING. I just know that it’s true." WHHHAAAATT?!?!?! MAN I WISH JIM WAS OUR INVESTIGATOR HE IS SUCH A COOL DUDE!! He is like this 60-year-old man who is just the coolest dude I know hahahah. The spirit was so strong when he said that. So stinking cool.

Tuesday was district meeting. After which we got to go on exchanges with the zone leaders! So I left my area to go and serve with Elder Kenworthy for the day up in Novato California. Super fun. As soon as we got to Novato. It was straight to work. We went less active finding, Tracting, went to a couple of set appointments/lessons just a way cool day. But the most amazing part didn't happen until that night. So earlier that day we went and tried to stop by a scheduled appointment with a woman named Yvon. unfortunately, she wasn't home when they had scheduled.  So we went and did some more less active finding. Found a very promising potential investigator who said she would love the missionaries to come back over and share a message with her. So that’s exciting. After a pretty long day.  Before we were about to go home we thought we should stop by Yvons house again. So we went by knocked on the door and she answered. Told us to come in. We sat and talked with her a little bit. Got to know her. (Now a little back round on her. The Zone leaders had just met her the day before and this was the first visit with her) She is in her early 60's and is originally from Poland. She told us about how she just wants to make a change in her life. And how all she sees in the world is evil. And Hatred. She was starting to wonder what her purpose in life was. She was religious and has a very deep belief in Jesus Christ. She practically explained the Pre-Earth life to us and how she believed that she lived with God beforehand. While talking to her I had a scripture I felt like I should share with her. So I shared 2 Nephi 2:25 and explained to her that God wants us to be happy. And how our whole purpose in life is to experience tough times, gain a body, and to be joyful. SHE LOVED IT. Kenworthy swooped in with the follow up and it was just such a spiritual moment. Now at this moment. So ahead is a conversation I had with myself while Kenworthy was teachin' and preachin'  In my head I’m thinking "Holy crap we need to invite her to be baptized"
"No it’s not my investigator I will have to let Kenworthy do it"
"But what if he doesn't???"
"I will just keep sending him good vibes and hopefully he will pick up what I’m putting down"
After he was done preaching he looked at me and I kinda nodded. I’m not sure how through a nod of the head we suddenly knew what we both were thinking but however it worked it worked. He looked at her and asked her to be baptized on December 3rd! She broke down into tears and said yes!!!!! We talked to her about what it means to be baptized and how she will have to prepare for it. She said she is willing and ready and is really looking forward to church. I don't know if she actually went but hopefully she did. I haven’t seen her since then. So in the meantime I will continually pray until I see a baptismal invite from the zone leaders hahah :D Any way after leaving the apartment me and Elder Kenworthy lost it and starting dancing and freaking out. We sat in the car driving back to the apartment and he looked at me and said "You know, I have seen a lot of miracles happen on exchanges, but this one takes the cake." So much fun. Tuesday was such an awesome day :D
Wednesday we exchanged back went to food bank. Did some service. After food bank Charles Smith canceled on us again....... SAD........ but he has a good reason. His wife has cancer and they are going through Chemo.... so I can’t be mad.... he said he really does want to meet with us it’s just been pretty crazy lately. So instead of visiting Charles we did some less active finding. and had dinner. After dinner just did more less active finding.... wasn’t very successful but just another day in the life of a missionary right?

GROSS WARNING AHEAD!!

Wednesday night......... right before bed Elder Pederson was complaining about not feeling to well. He expressed that his stomach was hurting. We didn’t think much of it until suddenly he sprinted to the bathroom and threw up........................... after which he said he felt so much better and he thought that he was ok. We went to bed and I was awoken at about 1 am by him violently throwing up again....... He was not in good shape. We called the missionary nurse and she said it was probably food poisoning. So we just let him do his thing. I stayed up with him, along with Elder Meyers to take care of him. at about 2 am I thought about things that helped me when I was sick and I thought we should go get some Gatorade. So we went to Safeway just down the street and got some Gatorade for him. He sipped on it and he said it made him feel better, so we went back to sleep. Didn’t get much sleep that night....

Thursday, Elder Pederson was better by morning. but man was I exhausted. Elder Magee was up and ready to go and drug me along through the day.... I was so tired. I was told by the missionary nurse to plan in an hour nap for myself. I WAS SO HAPPY FOR THAT NAP. Elder Magee wasn’t though. He thought we could continue on but I had to tell him I was taking the nap we argued for a little but ultimately I won :D During lunch I made some chicken noodle soup that actually turned out pretty dang good :D I was proud of it hahaha. We went to the bridge on Thursday this week. We haven’t gone in like 3 weeks because of scheduling conflicts. So we went Thursday and walked the bridge. After which we went to dinner and that was our day hahah. Our lesson fell through after dinner so we did some less active hunting and after which we went to bed.


Friday, was weekly planning day. Just planned. MADE A MASSIVE PIZOOKIE! that I was extremely proud about hahaha. We had the entire district together so I thought I would do something fun hahah. We all ate it and it was so stinking good. After we finished planning we went to dinner then did some more less active finding. then back to the apartment.

ANOTHER GROSS WARNING

When we got back to the apartment, Elder Meyers wasn’t feeling so good. He asked for a blessing. We gave him one then we all went to bed. I was then awoken at about 12:30am to him sprinting to the bathroom..... He vomited.........The plague had struck the apartment........ SO Because Elder Pederson was still recovering and he needed all the sleep he could get. I took care of him all night. fetched him whatever he needed. My companion slept through it all. and when I tried to go wake him he got mad at me and fell back to sleep. So I stayed up with him till about 4 am. Slept for about an hour and a half. Woke up at 5:30 not feeling so good, so I sat there not feeling good until 6:30.

Saturday, the alarm goes off everyone gets up. Elder Meyers is feeling better. Elder Pederson is feeling great and recovered. Elder Magee finally walks up to me as I’m sitting on the floor next to the trash can, truly contemplating life. He asked me why I wasn’t getting ready. As soon as he said that I began to vomit. ELDER FIELD HAD BEEN STRUCK BY THE PLAUGE. So Elder Magee and Elder Pederson went out for the day to cover both areas I stayed at the apartment with elder Meyers to sleep and rest all day....... so I laid on the floor next to the bathroom while trying to sleep. And when I couldn’t sleep I would watch church videos. Like the movie about the restoration........ It was a rough day...... I was finally starting to feel better at about 10 pm. So I went to bed and that was that....

Sunday I woke up feeling much better. I was still tired and weak and kind of out of it, but I went to church had a wonderful day at church. I am now a part of the church choir....... I’m the only tenor hahaah!  WOOHOOOOO!  We went and visited all the people we usually visit and take the sacrament to on Sundays. Had a wonderful dinner with an awesome family named the Burgons in the ward. I was educated by a little girl named Lizzie about her favorite show Simmer and Shine. She explained all the characters to me and her favorite episode. hahaahha
Twas quite fun. After which we went and saw a less active member for a bit. Got to know her and had a really awesome conversation. Shared a message about the parable of the pickle. ;) if yall were at my farewell you know what that is :D and then went to bed.

But yeah so that was my week. Wasn’t to exciting, I’m feeling much better now that I have rested for a couple of days. I’m still kind of out of it but then again when am I not? ;) Any who! I love you all!!!

-Elder Riley Field

Beach and bunker photos :D really cool

                                                                    Selfie fail

And the squad chillin at the beach (minus the Spanish elders)

Elder Field and the Case of the Missing Tablet

Hey everyone! This week I learned a lot..... like a ton. Hahaha both in a social aspect, and a spiritual aspect.

JUST SO MY MOM DOESN’T FREAK OUT!!! THE MISSING TABLET IN THE SUBJECT LINE IS NOT MINE!

So Monday was Halloween!!!! And the last day of the transfer. We hung out with the zone that day. Signed journals, said goodbyes, and just kinda hung out for a while it was super fun :) Now because it was Halloween we had to be in by 5pm which is lame but we found out that if you were with a member then you could stay out until our usual 9pm. And the Schroeders invited us over so we went and hung out with them. So it was us the sisters and the Spanish elders who all came and chilled with them. Oh man it was so much fun. We ate candy and played heads up haha :) I can't tell you how much I love that came. It was so funny!!!! Anyway I had a wonderful Halloween! Unfortunately, no opportunity arose for me to carve a pumpkin....... so I will have to wait until next year haha.

Tuesday was the start of the new transfer...... and was also the longest freaking day of the week hahaha. We had nothing planned for the morning because we were both pretty certain that either Elder Magee or myself would be transferring out. But nope. We both are here....... SO! this left a large gap in our schedule that we didn't plan for. So I said "well we are getting a new Elder in the apartment, I'm going to clean up the place and make it look nice for him", so I cleaned the carpets hahaha finally I cleaned the carpets. The apartment looks like a whole new place!! The carpets are actually quite fuzzy and soft when they aren't pushed down by dirt and gunk hahaha. While I cleaned the carpets Elder Magee took a nap............. anyway......... I got the place looking spiffy so I was happy. We then met the two new sisters that will be serving with us and they are awesome!!!!!! Holy crap I feel so happy!! One of them is a theatre major her name is Sister Jeffery! So we had a long discussion about favorite plays and musical and Shakespeare plays it was so fun. The other sister is way cool a super nice she is into musicals as well so we all get along pretty well haha. And that was pretty much it for Tuesday.


Wednesday we did our usual food bank thing had dinner and pretty much ended the day. Lame huh haha but something happened during food bank that I wasn't expecting. I got a call mid food bank from Elder Taylor. (My last companion) and told me he had good news and bad news. I asked him what the good news was. You guys remember Miriam and Sangato? The Samoan family I was teaching in Vallejo! Well they got baptized!!!! Yay!!! I was so happy for them. The bad news was pretty rough to take actually............ there was a less active lady we used to work with. Her name was Shirley McLain. I talked about her a lot in previous emails. She is super cool and we got along really well. We used to go over every week and visit her and talk with her. She is this super grumpy grandma hahaha She wanted to go to the temple for her first time. I think she is in her late 70's but she is way awesome....... Shirley passed away 2 weeks ago......... this was rough to hear....... just keep her family in your prayers guys. Her grandson John especially. He is pretty busted up about it. She was his only anchor in this life. Just pray for him. Please.

Thursday was a super long day........ We were supposed to have a lesson with Elise that morning but she never answered....... so that fell through sadly. So we went and tracted again hahaha.  It was so long because everything we planned just didn’t work. Either the lessons we planned fell through or the times we were just going to go see people fell through as well....... so we tried our best to occupy our time well and effectively. Pretty long day.. We had a lesson with Ken that night. We felt like we should watch Meet the Mormons which was strange but we did. We watched the first half with him and challenged him to watch the second half.

Friday we had our first district meeting with all the new people in the district. It was super fun and everyone who is in the district is like super chill and fun to talk to. After the meeting we all ate lunch together. One of the Hermanas is huge into musicals as well!! So we sat and talked about theatre and musicals for a while. her name is Hermana Foster. She is super funny and we clicked pretty well. Overall the morning was super fun and chill. We then did some awesome weekly planning and then had a pretty lengthy meeting with the sisters. We talked about all the ways to help the ward and to bring the ward closer together. IT WAS SUCH AN AWESOME MEETING!!! We now have a direction to direct our efforts. We have a lot of good ideas about utilize the youth and the YSA aged people. We are going to do a bunch of missionary sponsored activities so hopefully all that goes well. I’m praying that we will see some progress with the ward :D Woot That night we set up for the fall harvest festival which was super fun we got a bunch of hay bales from a pumpkin patch hahaha the lady who said we could take them didn't unlock the gate so we had to jump the gate then lift soggy damp hay bales over the fence and into the bed of a truck..... holy cow those things were so stinking heavy. Emphasis on "stinking" but that’s what they wanted hahaha so we got them in. and made it look all........ "Harvesty" I guess hahaah!

Saturday was the fall harvest festival! it was super fun got some awesome pictures...... which I don’t have this week because missionaries have yet to give them to me.......... rage..... oh well though.....but it was a lot of fun! but another strange thing happened. At the end of the party. we were cleaning up and Elder Magee noticed that his tablet was missing. Thinking that he misplaced it we searched the Church looking for it and couldn't find it. We didn't think much about it because we were pretty sure it was in the building. So we left to dump the hay bales that we retrieved the previous night. After we dumped the bales we came back to the church and did some more planning with the sisters for some cool things we are going to be doing the future and we noticed we still couldn't find his tablet. We did another full sweep of the church building and couldn’t find it again. We had to get to a lesson so we left and taught an awesome lesson to Elise

I’m going to move away from the subject of the tablet for a little bit to tell you about the lesson with Elise.

The lesson was awesome!!! but at first it wasn't. She was 45 mins late...... yikes.... hahaha when she finally showed she had her and her sons chase and Corbin. Chase is 15-16 years old. Loves basketball and is just a super cool kid. Corbin is 4 years old and is the rowdiest/insane kid you will ever meet. Whenever Corbin is involved the lesson will always go super long. It’s hard to teach when Corbin is just bouncing off the walls. Luckily we were at a park so he could run around and stuff. We gave a sort little recap on the plan of salvation for Chase and Elise. They both really like it a lot. Then we got to teach them the restoration. We taught about Christ's earthy ministry and was about to get to Joseph Smith when Corbin starting acting all rowdy again. So at this time I had the idea to tell it like a story. So I sat on the ground and had Corbin sit in front of me. With Elise and Chase still sitting and listening. And I told the story of Joseph Smith and the First vision. It was super cool and I felt the spirit pretty strongly. After that we taught about how the Book of Mormon came about and how Joseph Smith was a prophet. They seemed super receptive about it. We gave them both a Book of Mormon and asked them to read and pray if what we were saying was true and that if the Book of Mormon was true. They said they would. Afterwards I felt like I should ask them about baptism, not to commit them to a date, but to get the thought in their minds. We asked them that "If they were to come to a knowledge that all of this was true, the plan of salvation, Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. Would you be baptized by someone holding the proper priesthood authority?" Elise immediately answered yes that if it was all true she would love to be. Chase took a little time to answer because he is still so awkward around us but he eventually said yes he would be! IT was such a good lesson. Probably the best we have had with them. Now the lesson had already gone on for almost 2 hours now......... WAY TO LONG for a lesson. But for some reason I felt like we needed to stay longer and play some basketball with Chase. My inner rule following self was telling me it’s time to move on but me and Magee felt like we needed to shoot some hoops with chase. So we did. Played some ball and had a blast with Chase and his mom and little brother. He finally truly opened up to us. I think we finally broke the barrier of "Missionary" Yes we are missionaries but we are people too. Who like to have fun. He started joking with us and we invited him out to basketball every Saturday morning at the church. He said he would love to!!! So in total I think we spent like 3.5 hours with them.... which is way too long but it was totally needed.... so I don’t feel bad hahaha.
Anyway back to the tablet. After the lesson we went to dinner and then back to the church to do some more looking. I had the idea to log onto his email over the computer. And in your email settings you can see what devices you have logged your email onto. So we checked and it was there. It said it synced his email and things 2 hours after the Festival. Which means it had Wi-Fi. The only places he gets Wi-Fi is at the church or at the Schroeder’s. SO!!! IT HAS TO BE AT THE CHURCH!! But we can’t find it!!!! I'ts freaking gone!!! We have no clue where it is. And we still don’t know where it is. It’s still missing...... which is sad....... so I will be praying extra hard for that.......

Sunday was good. Just a usual busy Sunday. Saw a couple of people then we went to a zone meet 'n' greet which was way fun!!! Got to know the new zone and it was super chill and fun. So I have high hopes for the transfer...... I’m still with Elder Magee and things are getting better. I think I have finally figured out how to talk and work with him. I have to get on his level. And it bugs the crap out of me BUT this is the best way so I will just continue to work with him. so hopefully all goes well.
I hope that all of you wonderful people have an amazing week!! Know that I love you and all!!

Until next week!!
-Elder Riley Field


p.s. sorry my email is so stinking long again...... I need to cool it hahahah

Elder Field Is On A Roller Coaster?! (Of Emotions)

Happy Halloween everybody!!! I hope all of you have fun plans! Go watch a scary movie for me!! Or better yet someone go scare my sister Danika and send me the video ;) that would make my Halloween ;) Love you Danika.... if you even read these ;)

 This week has been craaaaaazzzzy first off we got transfer documents!!! The result!?!?

I will be staying in San Rafael...... with my........."lovely" ...... companion Elder Magee. Don't worry I have high hopes for this transfer, we have changed the way we are doing stuff as a companionship and hopefully this will clear up and frustrations with each other....... I hope...... ;)
Any who this week was full of up and downs haha. Like usual I guess. Monday was pretty normal. Got a haircut....... I think I have officially gone full Cali. You can’t get a haircut in Cali without it looking slightly hipster...That was pretty much it though.

Tuesday was pretty chill as well. Had a zone meeting. Last one of the transfer. I’m going to miss this zone. A couple of people are being transferred in and out so it will be very different in the upcoming transfer. Anyway the meeting was fun. We finished the competition of who could hand out the most book of Mormons. Out of 3 districts we took 2nd....... I know that makes us the first of the losers...... BUT we had a huge handicap it was ridiculous. So we had 10 people in our district when everyone else had 6. So we did by percentages.... well, the only reason we had to do percentages was because technically the Zone leaders and the Sister Training leaders are in our district....  I think between them both they handed out maybe 15 book of Mormons throughout the transfer. Now I don't blame them they are busy and have other responsibilities but we lost because of it haahha. In totally the entire zone handed out 354 BoMs. Which is insane!!! that’s 8 full boxes of BoMs. Our district alone handed out 174 of them hahaha. The winning district handed out like 113 or something like that.... but because of percentages we lost...... sad huh hahaha.

Wednesday we did our usually food bank service. I have stated to become super good friends with some of the people who run it hahah. They are super nice people :D Anyway after food bank we went and visited a potential investigator named Monica. We caught her right before she left taking her dog out on a walk. Talked to her for a bit. She used to work for BYU believe it or not hahaha. She said they are very active in their church. We asked them if we could come over just to get to know them a bit and to chat and possibly share a spiritual message. She was all for that. So that was neat. Unfortunately, when we went to visit her again she wasn't home....... dang..... but she texted us and said she wanted to reschedule and that she was sorry that she had forgotten!! YES! hahaha. we haven't come up with an official time yet but we are hoping she texts back soon haha.

Thursday we decided we would go do food bank in Novato. They wanted us to come again so that they could say final goodbyes to the missionaries who might leave. So we went had a wonderful time. After that we went to Starbucks of all places to teach a lesson to a less active member. Tori is super nice has 3 kids. She is going to school and doing an internship. She has got a lot on her plate but wants us to keep visiting with her. She wants to go to the temple but has problems with the word of wisdom. So we have been answering her questions and just have been helping her set goals to make it to the temple. Afterward we went door knocking..... with no success but we met some nice people and some really nasty people hahahah all part of the job right??:D

So Friday was an interesting day. I tried to help Elder Perez out with his tablet.... You know the one that gotten run over by a car. Now miraculously the tablet still worked. The insides were actually still functioning. The screen however was trashed. I will send another photo of what it looked like hahahah. So he took it into Apple to see if they could pull the pictures and the notes off of it. Apple just laughed at him and said no can do. So he came to me in a state of distress and despair and asked if there was anything I could do to save anything off his device. So after a morning of thinking what to do. I asked if there was a computer he used to connect his tablet up to. He said there was one in the Rohnapark chapel. Which is 45 mins away BUT still in our zone so we went for it :D when we got there. (just a clarifier we got permission to tinker with his iPad for a little bit so don’t think elder field was being a bad missionary ;) all of this was Okayed haha) I hooked it up to the computer and BINGO! The computer was trusted on the IPad. So we could access iTunes through it. Not all though unfortunately, because of the restrictions put in place by the church on the iPad. We could only save his photos. So I got all the photos off of it and created a backup on the computer of the tablet (i know most of you probs don’t understand any of this. This is mainly for my father and my other nerd friends, So just a short brief message to them!.... SEEEE I CAN BE SMART TOO!!!) Elder Perez was extremely grateful. I told him if he wants the notes off the tablet they are all stored on the computer they are just encrypted with a password Church Headquarters set. So when he gets off his mission he can find out that password and come retrieve them if he still wants them hahaha.

After the tablet fiasco we planned for the week and taught a lesson to Ken Koch. Lesson went super good. We brought our ward mission leader and he is awesome. He made that lesson. We taught about faith. And how sometimes God asks us to show our faith. He has already said no to baptism because he says until his back gets better he can’t do it. So we invited him to church..... well after and awesome lesson!!!! He still said no....... But we did commit him to come in 3 weeks. That way he can prepare himself physically and mentally for the task of coming to church. Hopefully he keeps that commitment. Then we went to the bridge which is always so much fun :D I had developed a great love for the Golden Gate Bridge. So stinking cool man so stinking cool hahaha.

Saturday was transfer doc day. Now because it was transfer doc day we FILLED our day with stuff to do. We were going to teach and investigator or 2, going to see some less actives. Had some service to do....the day started out good. Had breakfast with a member. Taught a good lesson them all of a sudden at about 12:46 All heck broke loose and everything fell through...... idk what is in the air lately but everything keeps falling through which is sad. So we just tried to go door knocking and hand out BoMs.we handed out 4 so that was good. But was unable to get some return appointments but all is well.  After the long day of tracting and trying to find Less active members to visit. We got to go to the adult session of Stake Conference. Which was way awesome. Heard some good speakers and i took a lot of good notes :D We got transfer docs after which. There was excitement there was despair there was fear there was sadness there was laughter........ all of which were from me. Everyone else seemed pretty chill with it hahahaha.

Sunday was fun. Had a wonderful stake conference. IN FACT!!! ELISE ONE OF OUR INVESTIGATORS CAME!!!!!!!!!!!! YYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY Hahahaha I was so stinking excited to see her walk through that door. We sat her down talked to her explained why this particular meeting was different. She loved it. She really enjoyed it. The talks were wonderful for her to hear. She asked us a bunch of good questions about doctrine and the plan of salvation afterward. She seems super interested and believed 90% of it. She is progressing really well. She told us about some of the similarities of Our church services and Jehovah Witnesses services and i learned a lot also. She likes ours better. She said this was the first church meeting that she has ever sat through the entire thing and actually enjoyed it. She said that she has been to quite a few churches and couldn't sit through all of them. AND THEY WERE SHORTER THAN THE 2 AND HALF HOURS OF STAKE CONFERENCE. man if that doesn't scream the spirit i don’t know what does. Anyway. We had an impromptu lesson with Elise right on the spot about the rest of the plan of salvation. After the lesson the Spanish elders left us at the church hahah. We had no way of driving back. So we walked the 4 or so miles back to our apartment. which kind of sucked but it was a nice day for the first 3/4 of the walk. Then it started raining hahaha. We jogged the rest of the way in my suit and got home without getting too wet. We changed by that time it was time for dinner so we went to dinner. Had fun and then we went to Taruns house.

Now Tarun is Indian. he is our recent convert of about 4 months. His family aren’t members but They invited us over to celebrate Diwali or festival of lights. It was super cool actually. They did some religious ceremony that we got to observe and then they busted out the fireworks hahaha. Sparklers and ground blooms and all sorts of fountains. we had a couple of mishaps with the fireworks hahaha. I had a few shoot my way which was fun hahhaa. but anyway it was super nice of them to invite us over. And it was way cool to see the different culture. It’s quite fascinating to me actually. After the fireworks they fed us a wonderful meal. Indian food is so stinking good hahaha.

Anyway I think that’s it for this week guys. Gosh my emails are starting to get too long hahah I need to make them shorter. But there is just so much that goes on hahaha.


Hope you guys have a wonderful Halloween! Stay safe and have fun! I love you all!!!

Bye!!!
-Elder Riley Field

Elder Field Wants To Be Hispanic

Quote of the week:

"We’re dead!!! We’re dead! We’re alive but were dead!"

Hey Hey Hey! So this week was crazy busy. Not because of appointments or anything like that but by the sheer number of doors we knocked this week........ it was insane! Anyway my week went a little like this!

Monday: Pretty chill day. Went to Sausalito (which is a huge touristy part of California) and hung out with the zone which was super fun. Got to know more of the missionaries in the zone and turns out I get along with them pretty well haha! That was pretty much it for Monday. We had a lesson with an investigator who isn't progressing anymore and unfortunately we may have to drop him within the next 2 weeks..... so we will see how that plays out. Elder Magee can’t stand the thought of dropping an investigator but sometimes you got to do it.... so sad....

(Riley & Hailey in Sausalito)

Tuesday: We had district meeting. The last one of the transfer...... weird.... where did this transfer go??? hahaha after district meeting we went on exchanges with the district leader and his companion. I went with Elder Perez who is a super cool guy. We went through the day knocking doors and we had 2 lessons...... of course I wasn't any help at all. I could understand like 30% of what they were saying so thank you High school Spanish but I couldn't communicate back to save my life hahah. But whatever they were talking about the spirit was there. During the first lesson, this little boy, maybe like 2 years old. Looked up at me and smiled. So since I couldn't understand what they were talking about and really couldn't help out anyway. I sat and played with the little boy. hahaha that was pretty fun :D When dinner came around we went over to the member’s house with the Hermanas. I ate.... so much..... Holy cow it was so good too!!! hahha :D after a wonderful dinner we went and had Family Home Evening with a less active member! Elder Perez told me it was usually in English so I was pretty pumped that I would be able to help after being a mute for 90% of the day. WELL we showed up and they all just started talking in Spanish..... dangit.... so again I just sat there smiling and nodding with whatever was said. Awkwardly laughed when everyone else laughed. This was the most difficult game I have ever played in my life hahahah. The spirit was there so that was good hahaha.

Wednesday: Finished up exchanges. Went to food bank like usual. After food bank we had a scheduled appointment that fell through which is sad..... so instead we just knocked doors and tried to give out Book of Mormon. Not much success unfortunately but we kept going no matter what. I trained my companion to be a Facebook missionary which was strange because I still have no clue how to be a good Facebook missionary hahahah. But I tried my best and helped him set up a Facebook. Any who!! That was pretty much it for Wednesday!


Thursday: Now Thursday was supposed to be the best day of the week. We had 3 scheduled appointments and a service project we were going to go do. Well while we were doing our morning studies EVERYTHING fell through within like a 40 min time period. Text after Text after text of people telling us that they couldn't meet. So what did we do instead. Well..... we went out with the Spanish Elders (so that we could split up 1 English and 1 Spanish missionary that way we could talk to anyone and everyone about the gospel) and went and knocked apartment complexes. I think in total that day we knocked 3 entire complexes and gave out 8 Book of Mormons. By the end of the day we were all exhausted.

Friday: Weekly planning day. After weekly planning we had about 2 set lesson appointments for the day and guess what!!! They also fell through..... hahaha all we could do at that point was laugh because this has been the most frustrating week on the planet hahahah. So I bet you can guess what we did!!!! THAT’S RIGHT WE WENT AND KNOCKED MORE DOORS!!! I have gotten good at this door knocking thing. I even have my own knocking pattern. I have figured out which part of the door you should knock to get the loudest sound. I have learned that peep holes are the worst thing on the planet. It is always awkward when you hear movement towards the door. Then suddenly the light on the other side of the peep hole is blocked by something and then no door answer. hahaha. Fantastic right hahaha Anyway I think in all we knocked 8 apartment complexes and did a small neighborhood. We actually gave out quite a few Book of Mormons I think it was 23 books. So that was pretty cool :D

Saturday: After praying extremely hard that morning that our appointments wouldn’t fall through, we got a call that we were needed for a service project. So we went. Turns out that someone needed help moving. So we helped this lady move. She was super nice but had so much stuff for one little old lady hahaha. That took us about 3 hours. After that a member took us to lunch to Chick fila. While eating all the appointments fell through again..... no joke...... I don’t know what was up this week but man oh man I just wanted to rip my hair out hahaha. So you know what we did? That’s right…. us and the Spanish missionaries went door knocking again. We actually got a return appointment for next week so that’s pretty cool. So I believe in total we knocked 3 apartment complexes and did a ton of street contacting, and gave out 26 book of Mormons! Which was super exciting. Now if all those people would give us a call we would be set hahaha. But through all the door knocking and talking to people I came to a conclusion. Elder Field wants to be a Spanish missionary hahah. The Hispanic people are so freaking nice!!! Even if they aren’t interested they will still talk to you for a bit then tell you (very nicely) that they are happy where they are at and wish us the best of luck. Whereas Californians, will sometimes just open the door sigh in disgust then slam the door or cuss you out. hahaha. Fun stuff right?? I also just want to learn a new language hahah. But hey, it’s not my decision, it’s where ever the lord needs me but it’s not unheard of a missionary having his mission language switched so who knows ;) I will be crossing my fingers hahaha but if I’m needed as an English missionary I will be the best dang English missionary I can be. hahaa :D

Sunday: I spoke in church... which was nerve wracking but I did so. My topic was my favorite book of Mormon prophet I couldn’t pick one so I chose Abindi and Alma the younger. Abinidi is the coolest :D He was taken to the king and just preached to him. Stood up for what he believed him and just owned it :D unfortunately he was put to death and didn’t get to see the fruits of his labors. His fruits being Alma one of the priests of Noah. Who then had a son named alma the younger so Abinidi's preaching helped a lot of people along the way even if he wasn’t able to see it :D And Alma the younger just has the coolest conversion stories in the Book of Mormon haha :D Anyway that was pretty much it for Sunday. WE knocked more doors because we didn’t have any appointments set. We had dinner with the Schroders which was awesome. We gave out 10 Book of Mormons that night. We also got a referral from Salt Lake City for this guy named Charles Smith. He was requesting a book of Mormon.  We went over to his house and this guy was walking out of his house he saw us and we asked if he was Charles smith. He said yeah. We went into the introduction of "We are missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We received that you requested......." He cut us off because suddenly he became really excited. "OH yeah!!! I requested a book of Mormon!! I can’t meet with you right now but could we meet sometime this week." We were caught off guard we told him yeah and gave him the Book of Mormon and our number and he gave us his. We were talking for a little bit and this little kid came out of the house and said "grandpa what are you doing" He replied with "I’m getting a book of Mormon, it’s like the bible. Well actually it’s a companion to the bible" ................................................did he just....................... yeah he did. He isn’t a member but I guess he had been doing research or something because he nailed it right on the head hahaha. When we gave it to him he was super excited and said he would start reading it while he was doing laundry (which is why he couldn’t meet with us right at that minute) So that was pretty cool hahaha :D We are going to call him today to set up an appointment :D

So overall I think we knocked probably over 150 doors and gave out 67 Book of Mormons this week...... ok that was pretty cool. Honestly we were pretty discouraged this week, but reflecting on it and just kinda looking back at what we did. We had a pretty good week. We gave out a ton of Book of Mormons and met a lot of people. So I guess this week wasn’t a failure hahaha.

Anyway!! I love you lots everybody! Have a good week!! And stay safe!!! HALLOWEEN is coming up so I want all of you to go to a party for me and dress up because I can’t....... hahaha :D


Love you all!!!
-Elder Riley Field

(Socks-alitto)

 (Trump and Hilary socks)

(This is what happens when an Ipad falls off the top of a car and then is run over by another car)

Elder Field Is (Not) A Baller

I think I’m going to start every email from now on with a movie quote. Just for the heck of it! So here is todays "Todays the Day!! The sun is shining! the tank is clean!!! And we are getting out of the..... *GAAASSSPPP* the tank is clean..... THE TANK IS CLEEEEAAAAANNN!!!!" Hopefully you all will be able to get the quotes I send hahaha.

Any who I guess I should move on to the missionary stuff huh ;)

So last Monday was pretty boring. Just hung out at the church and played ball for a bit....... That was pretty much it. Tried to go see some people. No one answered. Hahahah. Woot!

Tuesday was a little more eventful. we had our usual Tuesday district meeting and then we were going to have a lesson with a new investigator we picked up but she cancelled and moved it to Saturday. Which was extremely disappointing but she was the one who made the next appointment which means she still is interested which is good :D but that was the only thing we had planned for that day. So we just went and tried to do a lot of Less active finding, tracted for a bit, asked if anyone needed service, and just tried to find people to help or to teach. Unfortunately, it was full of no's. We had one guy who was super nice though. Let us in talked to us for a bit. Said he wasn’t interested but respected what we did and thanked us for spreading the word of God. So we left. It was something I needed hahaha. But yeah. That was it for Tuesday.

Wed was pretty average. Went and did our usual foodbank service. Actually got a pretty promising contact out of it. Said she was interested in us coming over and teaching her sometime. We called her and she said she would be able to meet until the 1st of November. So hopefully that goes well. We had a lesson that night with Shayla, but she canceled on us which was sad. Had a lot of appointments fall through this week actually hahah. It was a full moon this week. And weird things happen during a full moon I have discovered hahaha. No one wanted to talk so we tried our best but with little success.

Thursday we had a pretty cool experience!!! So we had a lesson with Kelly that day. (For those who don’t know who that is or have forgotten) Kelly was an inactive member who fell away. But now she is wanting to know what she believes in and has asked us to teach her the missionary lessons and also just teach her about the book of Mormon in general. We got on the topic of the time period of the book of Mormon. She never really understood where it fit in with the bible and really didn’t understand the story of it. So I just explained to her the time period. how it started 600 years before Christ was born. How Lehi preached to the city of Jerusalem, departed into the wilderness, built a boat, sailed across the ocean, so on and so forth. After explaining the overall story and what not I looked at my companion to see if he would pick up where I left off. He just sat there staring at me. I was confused so since he didn’t pick up i just kept going with it. I talked about how Christ talks about his other sheep. And how he calls the people of the Americas when he visits his other sheep. I showed her where it kind of mentions Lehi in the bible. I also showed her where Joseph Smith was talked about IN the book of Mormon. It was like a lightbulb turned on. It just made sense to her. She started smiling and started to get really excited about the book of Mormon. She told us how excited she was to read again. She then asked me "Goodness you know so much about the book of Mormon; you must have been studying this for years." It wasn’t until that moment when i realized how much my knowledge of the book of Mormon had grown...... Not going to lie. Before the mission I could barely tell you 4 stories from the book of Mormon. I have come to have such a love for the book of Mormon. Not only because it’s the word of god but because it’s an awesome read!!! I mean look at it! It’s a story of a man and his family kicked out of the city, they then survive in the wilderness for a while. Go and Build BOATS to cross the freaking ocean and then start their own country/land/people. It then accounts all the epic wars and battles that the Nephites and the Lamanites had hahaha! Such a cool story. and of course it contains the keys to salvation so that’s pretty cool too i guess ;) Anyway I was talking to my companion and kind of asked him why he was so quite during that lesson. He told me that he has no freaking clue about the stuff I talked about. That he was learning more than Kelly was. I gave my companion this advice. "If you want to learn about the book of Mormon stories and things like that. Go read the Children’s Book of Mormon" He laughed at me. But I’m being completely serious. IF any of you just want to know more about the book of Mormon or any of the stories there in look up the children’s Book of Mormon. It’s got pictures of all the stories and people of the BoM. That’s honestly where I gained 90% of my knowledge from halakha. Was from reading the Children’s BoM. Go check it out. It’s pretty cool.

Anyway the rest of Thursday was pretty much a bust for finding again. We searched and searched and knocked and knocked, and tried to stop people on the street, tried to find service opportunities but nothing...... we were pretty much done for the day and started to walk towards the car. Before we rounded the corner, I had a strange feeling that we should continue to walk down the street for some reason. So i stopped dead in my tracks looked at my companion and said let’s keep walking. Now mind you at this point we are both pretty discouraged and exhausted from that day’s events. Not to mention it was like 20 mins until dinner time so on top of all of it we were getting hungry. He looked at me and asked why. I just told him i feel like we should. He just shrugged and so we continued to walk. We walked down the block when we came across a house on the corner of the street that had a really cool small wooden lighthouse in the front lawn. I mentioned how cool that was then kept walking. We didn’t get half way across the street before I felt the same feeling to just knock on that door. Looked at my companion told him what I felt like needed to happen. So we did. We stood there for a bit. A lady came to the door. before we said anything she looked at us then looked at the phone she was holding and said "Listen I’m on the phone right now but if you guys are in the neighborhood again sometime soon. Drop back by." We said we would love to and then we left. That was it. After we left we went back to the car. I quickly pulled out my tablet and put that house on the map and named the person we met "lighthouse lady" We will definitely be going back there sometime this week :D

Friday was chill. Just planned for the week. Did our usual bridge walk that night.  Met some members on the bridge actually. A couple stopped us and asked if we were missionaries. We told them yeah. The explained how they were on vacation and that they were members. So that was cool. But other than that, there weren’t many people there that night. that was Friday.

Saturday was when the rains came............. For the past 3 days it has just been pouring rain out here. Today has been pretty sunny but it will turn to rain fast i promise you hahah. Anyway. Saturday morning is when we play basketball with people from the ward and the branch. But also investigators or just people who want to play with us really. I don’t know what I did but I think I may have channeled the spirit of Michael Jordan because I was on fire. IM HORRIBLE AT BASKETBALL!!! everyone who knows me knows I’m terrible, but something about that morning was magical. I was getting those rebounds, lay ups. I even had 2, 3 pointers.... which was shocking. Hahaha anyway that ended quickly though. I played 1 good game and then I was back to being terrible. Hahaha. Anyway! Had a fun time at basketball then I had the opportunity of organizing a blitz. A Blitz is when all the missionaries from the surrounding areas converge for 2-3 hours to just find potential investigators for 1 particular area. I was in charge of planning one for our area. So I did just that. We had about 10 missionaries who helped out with it so that was fun. While you do blitz you also go on mini exchanges with other missionaries. So I went out with one of the zone leaders Elder Kenworthy. That guy is the funniest dudes I have ever met. We had so much fun. Anyway I have an interesting experience for you guys. While me and Elder Kenworthy (I’m going to call him elder K) were out street contacting. We stopped in front of this little restaurant. A guy walked up to us and just started talking to us. He asked us if we were missionaries. We said yeah. And then he just started telling us about what he did for work. Weird huh? Oh don’t worry it gets even more strange hahah He told us how he teaches people how to fight. This guy had tattoos like crazy and i noticed that he had one of the marine corps emblem. I asked him if he was a marine. He said yeah, so of course i do what i usually do when I see a person who was in the armed forces or is a police officer. I thanked him for his service. He said no worries but no sooner after I thanked him for being a marine things started getting weird.......... He started talking about the alien movies all of a sudden. And started talking about the space marines in the movie Alien. He mentioned how all of that was real. That the aliens were real and that he was one of the space marines............................................. Wat.......................... Oh it gets better. He started talking about all his cool war stories. How he was in a helicopter and he saw a RPG heading for him. So he pulled out his desert egal 50 cal and shot it and it exploded and burned his leg off. and melted his arm down to his bone........................ Mind you he looks just fine................ he didn’t have scars or anything but i went with it. He told us how his leg bone was fake. How it was.... and I quote.... "Adimantium"..... For those who don’t know that is the metal that the comic book hero Wolverines bones are made of............ He showed us his hands and said "she these scars"(there were no scars) "That’s where my claws used to come out of. Yeah guys it’s all real. I am one of those guys who can do it" it was getting harder and harder to keep a straight face..... He also told us "You guys know the movie the dark night" We told him yes "You know the dark night, can you guess who he was" He starts pointing to himself..... so I’m trying to be nice and act all shocked right and I tell him "Woah! really?? That’s insane man" He was so proud of himself and said "Yup! You know that guy with the mask" i said "Yeah I think bane is his name" This was the part that I almost lost it....... he said "Bane??? He went by Blaine in high school"

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I had to end the conversation there. I told him that was really cool and that we had to go. We gave him a BoM and left. I rounded the corner then started to laugh so freaking hard........ Man oh man the things you see and hear on the mission. But moral of the story is I met The only survivor of the movie Alien, Batman, And Wolverine so all yall should be jealous ;)

Saturday night we had a lesson with David Meyers about How we should treat Satan how god wants us to. And if there is a difference between Adversity and Temptation. That was a super cool lesson actually. I learned a ton from studying for it but also David had some really stinking cool comments. (David is an ex-communicated member who is working his way back to the church Such a cool guy :D Love him to death) He asked us to come back on Sunday to give him a blessing. He was having a really tough time and needed a blessing. He had been sick for a while and just felt really discouraged. So he wanted us to pray and prepare for the blessing. And that was Saturday.

Sunday was super super busy. Church was awesome........ Bishop asked me to speak this week...... yay...... we had some awesome lessons in Sunday school and yeah... just a really good day. We had a lesson with Elise that day! It got cut short because of the rain...... (Yes it was still raining) She still is super interested. She is coming to church this week too!!! yay!!!! Super excited about that! We went over to give David a blessing. Now the entire morning I had been praying about it thinking about who should give the blessing and what not. I kind of felt like I should but I didn’t want to take it away from Elder Magee. He knew him longer and I want to be that good trainer and give him opportunities to do it. So when we showed up we talked for a bit. And the entire time I kept feeling like I needed to give the blessing. I kept pushing it back and told myself elder Magee needed to do it. Before it was time to give the blessing David then said "I don’t know why I feel like asking this but is there anyone who feels inspired or prompted to give the blessing" There it was. I looked at my companion and then blurted out "I have been feeling prompted to give it actually" I didn’t want to say that I just came out........  he smiled and said alright. And so we gave him a blessing. No words can describe the feelings i felt while giving that blessing. I’m not going to say much about it but..... it was insane how much love I felt for David. It was almost like heavenly father gave me a sliver of how much he loves David. And honestly I don’t even remember half the things I said in that blessing. After the blessing everyone was in tears. We hugged it out and he thanked me. After we all immediately got on our knees and thanked heavenly father. It was such a cool experience.

The rest of the day flew by. We saw a bunch of people we met a girl on the street named Malory who seemed super interested in learning about the gospel.so we got her number and we gave her ours with a BoM and left. We are going to call her today to see if we can set up an appointment. :D

Anyway! That’s pretty much it for this week. I love you all!! I hope your week was wonderful and amazing. And know that I’m thinking about all of you. Shout out to Dani (not my sister Danika, but I love you too Danika ;) ) who gave her farewell talk yesterday! I heard you did amazing and I’m so excited for you! Also shout out to Racheal Judson who is about to enter the MTC as well! And Hannah Davis who entered the MTC last week!!! I’M SO FREAKING EXCITED FOR ALL OF YOU!! Work hard and Trust in the Lord!!!

Anyway! I love hearing from all of you! it makes me so happy!!! Love yall!!!

Until next week!

-Elder Riley Field

Pictures from the week:

Elder Pederson stole my tablet

We were being surrounded by geese while visiting a less active member at a park. One of them kept eye balling me and I was pretty sure if I made any sudden movements he was going to come after me hahah.

A defend life poster that we found with the Zone leaders Elder Kenworthy holding it and Elder pike looking not amused in the background

We accidentally drove into a movie set.... we went to go visit a less active and the house we wanted to go was being filmed in.... weird

Lion statues. I want to make a Facebook post with this photo. Anyone know of scriptures that talk about lions or something like that from the Book of Mormon? ;)

Elder Field Sings In A Quartet!

Hey guys! So this week wasn’t too crazy. Not many super cool stories or experiences I guess. This week was full of less active finding, and we haven’t been very successful....... but none the less we have been working hard and trying not to get discouraged hahah!

Monday night after I emailed we went to Muir Woods! It’s a red wood forest in our area!! So sick! I took a bunch of photos. My companion and I, along with the sisters from our ward and The Schroders (I freaking love these guys.)  David and Maria Schroder have been like the parents of the missionaries in this area hahhaha! They found out that we didn’t have dinners this week and have offered to feed us EVERY Night this week!!!! That’s insane!!! These guys are awesome! Plus, David is German and is kooky and funny.... ahhhh Germans...... they are the best hahaha) We did like a 2-mile hike in this forest which was pretty stinking awesome! And it was raining!!!! I love the rain so much!!!! It sounded so cool in the redwood forest! So cool!

Tuesday was pretty boring.... didn’t have district meeting again because of zone conference on Thursday. Tuesday I went on exchanges with Elder Pederson. Freaking love that kid. He is from Colorado and is a film maker! Way better than I will ever be hahaha. He brought some of his films and showed us. He is extremely talented hahha. super funny too. Lots of puns. Which if you know me I love a good pun! We got along super well. And that was pretty much it for Tuesday. We did a lot of finding. Gave out 2 book of Mormons. We haven’t had any of our street contacts call us yet, but we are hoping hahaha :D

Wednesday was pretty chill. We did food bank again. Went and passed out food and helped with stuff. I have become really good friends with some of the people who run it. They are super chill and super funny. And just good people. While we were passing out food they were playing some music over the speakers and all of a sudden The Wombats came on. (Now I know a lot of you don’t know who they are but they are a super cool band) Now missionary me was all composed and was trying to tune out the music. But normal Elder Field started to mouth the words hahaha.... I tried sooooo hard to tune it out, but I couldn’t do it anymore.  I started to sing the song hahaaha.   Anyway one of the head people who was working there looked at me and said "Do you know who these guys are?" I told him "Yeah, I listened to these guys all the time back home".  He then freaked out and gave me a hug hahaha.  He said he hadn’t known anyone who had heard of these guys before. We laughed and talked about their music some more. I gave him some suggestions on bands and then he said "Man your pretty cool Elder Field. Didn’t think I would like a missionary this much" YES!!!! I’M ALL ABOUT CHANGING PEOPLE’S OPINIONS ABOUT US!!! In the good way of course hahaha! I’m just going to continue to be myself out here hahaha. Seemed to have gone well this far. Even if that does mean singing to non-approved missionary songs ;)

Thursday was Zone conference. Pretty much took up the whole day. I sang there....... yeah me and 3 other missionaries were the special musical number. I got a call two days earlier saying that a little birdie told them I sang...... and asked if I could sing in a quartet with another elder and two sisters. I told them sure. We sang “In Humility, Our Savior”. I sang bass!!! hahaha It was kind of weird singing bass.  I’m so used to singing tenor. But it was super cool. The unfortunate thing about singing in Zone conference was that the mission president's wife was there..... Sister Wright now knows I sing..... and I have been told that she keeps a list of people who sing so when she needs a musical number she just calls them up.... Hahahah well I’m on that list now. Let’s see where that goes! hahaha

Friday was more weekly planning.... Guys the transfer is half over hahah!! Where did the time go hahahah...... That was pretty much it. Weekly planning and we did another bridge walk. I went to mid-point this time!!! So freaking cool! Took some photos! Just a good day.

Saturday was cool. We met with Elise. She was a lady that Elder Magee and his last companion street contacted. We called her up and asked if she could meet last week. She said yeah! So we met at a park with her 2 kids. One is 16 the other is 5 or somewhere close to that age hahah. We played a little basketball for a little bit before we started talking to them about religion haha. Elise is a former Jehovah Witness. She left the church a while ago. And is open to learning about other religions. Her son Chase is actually the one who sparked the whole "Let’s look into other religions" thing. He started asking questions about God that Elise couldn’t answer. He also started going to other churches and started experimented with different faiths. The day after he started asking these questions is when Elder Magee and his companion ran into her. COINCIDENCE I THINK NOT! hahaha. We really didn’t even teach lesson. She just asked us a bunch of questions about our faith. We answered them to the best of our ability. And said that she would like to meet again. 2 times a week actually hahaha So she is pretty interested haha. Chase is not AS interested but has agreed to meet with us. So that’s cool. Elise has been through a lot though. I’m not going to tell you guys everything because it’s something she trusted us with. but she has been through a lot...... A LOT....... She just opened up to us all of a sudden she told us "I don’t know why I feel like I can tell you these things. but you guys seem like really good guys and I already trust you for some reason. And that’s weird because it’s hard for me to trust people" She had a bad ex-boyfriend/husband thing idk and he caused A LOT of problems for her.... it was so sad. But she is trying her hardest to be a good mom for her kids. I already freaking love this woman. She is super funny and genuine. She just is a seeker of the truth. She will make an amazing Mormon ;) That was pretty much it for Saturday. We did a lot of finding again. Which was chill. No success, but we gave out a Book of Mormon, so who knows hahaha. PLANTING SEEDS ALL THE DAY LONG! I want to be known as the "seed planter" can that be my nickname?? hahaha Elder Seed Planter. yeah I dig it hahaha.

Sunday was such a long day for 2 reasons. 1, because it was fast Sunday. 2, all of our appointments fell through...... so we just went less active finding ALL DAY. And met some really grouchy people, but also met some really cool people. We knocked a door to a less active member’s house. She opened the door and looked kinda shocked. We told them we were the new missionaries in the area. She asked us where we were from. I told her PG and my companion told her Alpine. She looked surprised and said "My son’s favorite high school basketball team is from Alpine." She called him over to us. Turns out Lone Peak is his favorite team. Which just so happens to be the high school that Elder Magee went to. She let us in and we talked a bit about high school basketball. After a lovely conversation. She walked up to us and gave us a bag of snicker doodles and then told us "Listen. You guys can come over whenever you want. You can come play basketball or just hang out over here but on 1 condition. You can’t talk about the Book of Mormon or Joseph Smith in this house." Well that caught me off guard...... "we would just argue about it" She was the only member in her house and I guess she doesn’t believe anymore...... which was sad...... so unfortunately we probs won’t be going over there anytime soon. Who knows though maybe we will go over and play some ball on P-day with her son. Maybe we can get him interested. He is a junior in high school. But he seemed to have standoffish feelings towards us. Idk the whole thing is just weird hahahah.....  The rest of Sunday was just spent less active finding. We gave out 2 Book of Mormons to nonmembers though. So that’s cool. No return appointments though D: But oh well...... Seed planting right? hahaha!


Anyway! I think that’s about it for me this week! I hope that your week was awesome! I love you all and miss you tons!

Have a good one!

Lots of love!
-Elder Riley Field