Week 17 in LA - Last Week of Transfer 3

This week has been pretty good. A lot of biking and some more biking. But on a happy note one of our investigators, Ivan, is getting baptized! We have been working really hard to get him to this point so I'm super excited for this Saturday. On New Years we had to be in by 6 PM so we had some time to just relax and keep ourselves entertained. On Saturday we went to a baptism for someone in one of the other wards and we took Ivan and he enjoyed it. I also went on exchanges back to R3 and Manhattan Beach with Elder Styer my last companion. We had such a great day. We also forgot to take pictures. The other days in the week have been just regular missionary days. I hope you all have a great day and thank you for all the support that I have seen and heard of it's very much appreciated. 

SPIRITUAL THOUGHT: Today I thought I would share a part for a talk for Presidemt Monson. He sares a poem in his talk titled The Bridge Builder fprm October 2003, "Perhaps such a somber thought inspired the poet Will Allen Dromgoole’s classic poem entitled “The Bridge Builder.”

An old man, going a lone highway,

Came at the evening, cold and gray,

To a chasm, vast and deep and wide,

Through which was flowing a sullen tide.

The old man crossed in the twilight dim;

The sullen stream had no fears for him;

But he turned when safe on the other side

And built a bridge to span the tide.

“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,

“You are wasting strength with building here;

Your journey will end with the ending day;

You never again must pass this way;

You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide—

Why build you the bridge at the eventide?”

The builder lifted his old gray head:

“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,

“There followeth after me today

A youth whose feet must pass this way.

This chasm that has been naught to me

To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.

He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;

Good friend, I am building the bridge for him.”

The message of the poem has prompted my thinking and comforted my soul, for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, was the supreme architect and builder of bridges for you, for me, for all mankind. He has built the bridges over which we must cross if we are to reach our heavenly home." 

Pictures 

Me today
Zach and his bike (this one came from Facebook)

Food

Zach as a sheep (this one came from his companion's mom)
Elder Cox, Elder Halverson and Elder Styer bowling (this one also came from his companion's mom)