Great week!

 

Awesome week!

We had a lot of great lessons with our progressing friends.

Especially Miguel, Miguel is literally perfect, he knows so much about the gospel and he is so ready to be baptised!

He is great friends with a member family (la familia de Letona)

And we have all our lessons in their house, super awesome!

Elder Carty and I are becoming very fluid teachers 

He brought up the question of "who is the one who baptizes me"

And we told him, Brother Letona holds the keys, my companion holds the keys, and I hold the keys of baptism... so it is 100% your decision.

He then turned to me and said, 

"Tú me quiero bautizar"

In others words Miguel expressed he wants me to baptise him and I am extremely honored that he chose me :)

We had another exchange this week, with Elder moeller he has been on the mission for 3 weeks!

That day was very fun hes a little goofyball! Just like me, he came to my area, it was a fun day because i taught all the lessons and did most of the talking, but every time he wanted to say something I let him go and the gift of tongues carried him away it was so great! For a 3 week old missionary his spanish is great! Hes got a bright future.

This work is exhausting but it is SOOO AMAZING!!!

We are seeing so mamy miracles in our area each and everyday

On saturday, we had an awesome opurtunity to serve a super awesome member! She is so sweet.

She works for spark which is basically uber for groceries, her car broke down and she stsrted to cry snd said a prayer, after that she looked up and saw us! and she runs up to us and says "Elders Elders help!" She needed to get these groceries to her customer, but her car exploded, 

So we loaded up our bikes, and her cute little wagon and we walked the rest of the groceries to the customer.

She told us her conversion story where she went through a year worth of Elders teaching her before finally making the amazing decision yo be baptized by authority.

Thanks for all yall do I love ya!

Elder Sandberg

I found some cool cars this week

6 months in compton SMILE!!!

This week will mark 6 months on the mission! 

And ive been in the same area since the beginning, and Ive seen a great change in the area for the better in the time ive been here, 

Quite exciting!

I am so grateful for the oppurtunity to be out on the mission

This week was fantastic!

We had 4 lessons this week with a member in the lessons

There is so much power in those members, we taught, but they truly testified, and touched the souls of our friends in a way that we couldn't.

We are seeing a lot of progress in our friends!

Yesterday we had a great miracle (we have seen SOO many miracles everyday!!!)

But yesterday in church our friend (miguel whos on baptism date and has an amazing testimony) came with us four elders and two more friends to see the baptismal font, we showed the font to our friends and had miguel (our friend) bear his tesrimony of the Book of mormon and the ammount of peace and blessings the gospel has already given him. Hes not even baptised yet and he pored his sould out in the name of jesus christ!

It was so rad!!

This work is the most exhausting thing ive ever done

But it is so amazingly rewarding!!!

Elder Carty and I bike upwards of 14-20 miles a day some days more!

"Magnify your callings"

Weve been set apart to bike, So we gonna bike!

Thanks for all yall do for support i love yall have a good week :)))

Elder Sandberg

Fresh new month!

 So far this new transfer is going great!

My new companion Elder Carty is amazing

We are working our butts off

We come home and pass out at 10:30

We are old people

Then we are up right at 6:30, run and play basketball

We made plans to be extremly diligent and obedient

This will be good for me 

Elder Carty is a great companion he loves all the things i do and we are both goof balls!

On saturday we had an great time at a members house for dinner she made some fantastic papusas, and we had a good time talking with her and her husband,

Then some of their family members from out of down dropped in to visit,

One olderish couple were Deaf!!!

I had the awesome expirence to try and remember my sign language, 

I held up a solid HOUR conversation!

My companion and the members were flipping out haha

Our friend Miguel, from Nicaragua, we showed him the baptismal font and extended an invitation to be baptised, he accepted it and said, i Will be doing this, and will be baptized on march 4!

Thanks for all the support it means a lot!

        Elder Sandberg

Another Great week!!!

 We got the transfer news!

Im staying here for another 6 weeks!

I love it here!

We are seeing so much success in our area, Finding, teaching and close to baptising!!

My new companion is Elder Carty he has been out the same time as me!!

I was good friends with him in the MTC and we are still on bikes!!!

I am extremly stoked about this transfer!!!

Im also senior companion which is pretty exciting, but that really doesnt meaning anything at all, cuz we equals! 

This week was fantastic!!!

We found 7 new solid people!

Im sad to say goodbye to Elder Garrett he was my companion for 3 MoNTHS!!!!

I learned so much from him and hes finishing his 2 years strong!!

Our friends Adolfo and Eduardo are continuing to progress! They always have great questions which sometimes dont make sense (mainly just Eduardo) for example he asked us about a tree in the bible that didnt have fruit ergo Jesus cursed it, therefore he thought his avacado tree in his backed yard was cursing him.... we didnt know what to say, so we read in the Book of Mormon, (a book that dwells in plainess) after that, he now had questions that made sense,

We found an awesome friend from nicaragua who met with the missionaries over yonder, so he knows alot and has great faith in joseph smith and Jesus christ, he will be baptised very soon! He has became great friends with the members which is extremly helpful!

Hermana morales took us to Red Lobster for my Birthday that was very fun!!!

So much success, so many great things happening!! I love being out here!!

Email me with any questions!!!

Stay safe much love

     Elder Sandberg

Truly an INCREDIBLE week!

This week was absolutely INCREDIBLE!

First off our two friends, Adolfo and Eduardo, they are brothers.

Adolfo is progressing very well although Eduardo, struggles with a lot of nasty habits, but he loves the book of mormon and they both are learning great new fun shtuff! They both also came to church which was very exciting, eduardo is super funny, he is learning english and he loves to go "Yessirrr"  in a high pitched voice. 

When the sacrement stsrted to be passed he goes, "OH thats NIIIIICE!" In the same highpitched voice, it was quite silly,

That sunday was especially great, in Sacrement meeting, our stake president and his councler both gave talks in their broken Spanish, they did a great job!

And gave great messages about following promptings of the holy ghost.

Elders quorum was also incredible, we had an awesome discussion about following those impresions from the holy ghost, that also got me super stoked about missionary work!

The best part of this whole thing, is I understood almost ALL of it

A huge blessing and gift from heavenly father,

Also my English is getting very bad,

Hahah,

I got to drive! That was fun! first time in 5 months. Just to and from church, Mommy I plead the fifth on how fast I went hehe (probably why president put me in a biking area ) but either way I rarley use my hands when I ride the bike soooo whos to say....

I participated in an Exchange with Elder Amaya, he is from Venizuela! "Viva Chavez!" I said  "no we dont like dat guy"he said when I joked about him haha.

That day was way fun because i spoke ONLY spanish the whole day, mainly because Elder Amaya bearley knows english

Im getting really good at teaching and answering questions, i still have a LOT to go but im so stoked about my progress!

Weve been cracking down on those INACTIVE MEMBERS, We have a lot in our area! And this past week weve had alot of them return to church!!! So amazing!!!.

One member we found, Henry, he just moved here from nicaragua with his sweetheart Franceli, (she is not a  member) they both came to church and he had his arm around her and he was showing her how the hymns work n shtufff

It was totally rad! They are SOO cute togethrr :)) So we are teaching them and she seems SUPER interested!!

At zone council we played a litle get to know you thing, where you say what disney character your companion reminds you of, i said Elder garrett reminds me of mr Incredible, and he says im like, little timmy from The Incredibles....THAT WAS TOTALLY WICKED!

Ive been in the Area for 4 months or so now and I am seeing the affect and change the gospel has on people, we are now seeing amazing success and Im super stoked about it!

I love being a missionary! I feel so much joy serving the Lord!!! Idk how to describe it i just feel so Great!!!

So rad so rad!

Flameo Hotman 

See ya later!

I SEE HIM!

OK i love you all so much!!!

----Elder Snadberg-----

Sheila was baptized and confirmed!

Honestly

Im not doing so good

These past two weeks were rough,

But its not about me

Its about the people here.

So ima focus on the good

Sheila has been a rey of sunshine she was so ready to be baptized and she was so happy and excited everytime we talked to her!

Elder Garrett is a fantastic companion, so loving, Kind, Patient, and just christlike, i strive to be like him 

Anyway keep the prayers comin

I love yall

Eldee Sandberg

Mucha Lluvia amados hermanos mios

 FIRST OFF HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! 2023

AND HAPPY HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!!

This week was great!

As always its hard!

The teaching is awesome!

The service is easy

Its the mental part thats hard

So just take it a day at a time!

      -Scott Sandberg

These wise words are so true and have helped me through the tough times.

This week we saw ALOT of Rain and Mighty Miracles!

Like pouring rain, which is quite fun to bike in the rain, and be soaked and the end of the day.

We have a friend, her name is Sheila!

She has come to church for the past 4-5 weeks ish and she will be baptised jan 15!!!. A few weeks ago or so, in second our of church we had a class on tithing, and she wanted to pay her tithing, but we said 

"oh you dont need to pay your tithing until your a member" she said "well how do I be a member" we said "well you need to be baptised,so she replied "when can I be baptised?

 so we are teaching and preparing her for baptism,

She is super funny! And remembers a lot!

We met another awesome family, the fathers name is Diego, he kept resqueduling us for genuine reasons but we finally got a lesson with him last friday!

This was probably the best lesson ive had on the mission so far, we taught the the message of the restoration of the church of jesuschrist, which includes, our loving heavanly, Families, profets, dispensations, and apostosies; josesmith, the book of mormon, and finally how the holy ghost works/revelation, etc, very intense lesson!

After we explained the book of mormon, we shared moroni 10 3-6, he read it and I was following along in my own copy, half way through he choked up and couldnt speak, I looked up and his eyes were watering, i felt it, my companion felt it, and I Know Diego felt it,

 im very excited for Diego! He loves talking with us and every time we visit, he is just GENUINLY interested and i can feel his soul reaching for us! He is the Elect.

The holy ghost works in very different ways, and effects people very differently.

Story time

Our friend Mitzy, we have been teaching her English as a service, and shes making decent strides!

Our last lesson, afterwards, she accepted a spiritual message and we taught the restoration to her!

Although, every 2 minutes or so she would just burst out laughing!!! (Not in a mocking way) but Man! It was hilarous, 

Elder Garrett thinks we "broke her" i believe she has never felt the spirit or anything similar too it so when that feeling came, it made her Laugh!

So fascinating to me!

For me i feel the most amazing peace, and a soft grin comes in slowly, and I always get the chills and a feeling like im floatings!

This whole week it has been raining pretty much everyday,

But on dec 31 saturday, we rode to my best buddie's house: hermana morale's house for dinner, she cooks some dang good food!!!

We arrived around 6ish planned to leave around 7:30 but thats when the cats and dogs came flooding in!!

So

We chilled in her living room blasting music and having a party!

She played zeppelin, Metalica, Blink 182, and allllll sorts of music for us, it was a good time, 

After this it was still pouring rain, so she turned on her favorite spanish soap opera: Vencer La Ausencia. Very dramatic, and ridiculously cheesy,

The time is now 8:45, 5 miles from the house, (still pouring) so we just sent it!

Soaking rain! Bikes, luckily ive got an awesome rain jacket but the shoes and pants got some soaking! It was super fun!

The spanish is coming along great! I can speak, listen, and understand! But i am also humbled every single day!

But thats how you learn.

The work to gather israel here in California is tough! 

lots of stiff necks and hard hearts! But Loui gray, my companion, all the missionaries here and I are standing strong and pressing forward!

My testimony of Jesus Christ and the Book of Mormon are firm and grow more and more each and every day! I love you all thanks for reading it means a lot :)

Heres some pictures

 and scriptures I would love for yall to ponder on

Flabble gabble dabblee dittle loo hoo peace out

      

Oh yeah cut the hair

(Elder fullmer had way too much fun to do so hahahaha) 

If you got some time 

look these bad boys up, 

mark em 

And ponder em 

-Mosiah 4:2-3

-Alma 24:10

-Romans 3:23-26

-Romans 8:38-39 (from the one and only Alexandria Jensen,)

Ive been doing an intensive study of the atonement of Jesus Christ, the most magnifecent, unfathomable, and incredible Event in the history of the universe!!!!

It means something truly special and unique to me, every one understands it different so I invite you all do find out what it means for you!

     -Elder Snadberg Sandberg out

Hasta luego!