Week 95 in LA--Back to Two and a Famous Guitarist

Zach called again yesterday. He called really late so we only had 15 minutes to talk. He said that a missionary had to go home early due to medical issues. He has a seizure after church on Sunday (they were back at their apartment) and when he fell because of it, he broke his jaw. Zach said that he was seizing for around 2 hours--which was super scary. The decision was made that he would go home for surgery because he only had 2 weeks left of his mission. So scary and so sad!! Because of that, his companion needed a companion so they transferred Elder Laybourn there. So, that leaves Zach with just 1 companion now, Elder Hill, and they still cover both the North Hollywood area and the Studio City area.

He said that Kyle, Julie and Olivia took them to lunch on Friday. Julie was awesome and took pictures and sent them to me. They went to a pizza place and Zach said it was really good. They are so awesome and they take such good care of Zach!!

He said that they did a lot of proselyting last week--like a lot. And that it was just a normal missionary week. And then he said, "Oh yeah, I went on splits with Elder Sands and I got to meet Michael Herring. He is a famous guitarist who has played for Prince, Boys II Men, New Kids on the Block, Christina Aguilara and others." Um..........hello?!?! That's a pretty big deal!! Prince is one of my all time favorites!! He got to go to his home and see his guitar collection--which was a huge deal for Zach. It was perfect timing too because he left to tour with Christina Augilara the next day in Europe. Soooooo cool!!

He said that he is super excited for the baptism of Ted on Saturday. One of the members of the Woodland Hills ward, Brother McKeown (he is the Elders quorum president and Zach had Easter dinner at his house), was a guest speaker at zone conference. He talked about Essentialism, which is actually a book that he wrote and he travels all over the world speaking to people about it. He geared it more gospel centered for the zone conference and Zach said it was great. He said that when he saw him, he came over and gave him a big hug and told him how much he misses him. He also told him that he was super excited to see him at the baptism and that he would bring Zach a copy of his book, signed. Zach said he is from the UK and is a really cool guy. 

That is really all we talked about because of time. Oh, I did ask him if he was feeling better after that nasty stomach bug and he said that yes, they were all better. Whew!! I also asked if he had met his new mission president and he said that they are meeting him today.

Pictures
1-2 Lunch with Kyle, Julie and Olivia
3-4 Service projects
5 Zach with President and Sister Haynie before they went home
6-7 Last zone conference with Haynie's--Zach and his zone and eating lunch (he's at the very end of the table on on the right)
8-10 Zach selfies??