2014 July 14

and I have walked a thousand mooore. 

(or however it goes)

How is everybody out there in the big world today? I hope doing well.

Well this week was truly unique as I got to attend a funeral for a members friend. It was truly interesting to attend a funeral in a funeral home which is a fancy word for place where they have the funeral. A certain Rob Clark was the one who owned and ran it(a member of the church) and he was quite polite about it. A lot of the people there were nonmembers(with a few investigators thrown in as well.) We just kind of sat and enjoyed the stories they told(he died before I got there so in all honesty I didn't really know the guy. I was there to support our member and make sure he did well as he gave the eulogy for him)

After that we went with brother Schade to help prepare for a barbecue. as it turned out helping simply meant some chopping and cooking. He made a huge pot of goulash that is his own make and model that took ten years to perfect() a long time by anyone's standards.

We put an investigator back on date after teaching the law of chastity and that went quite well. I know that if we keep helping him out that he'll come fully to know the lord.

WELP good luck out there in the big world!

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Elizabeth Padilla <lizard68@hotmail.com> Rob Clark and his ex wife own that funeral home and are members of the church as well. They have 5 lovely children and one of their sons is on a mission as well. 😊

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Edward Padilla <padilla_ec@hotmail.com>

Elder Padilla,

We know Rob.  Tell him we said hi

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2014 Aug 18

I forgot to tell you all, I live in a shack in Post Falls 1st. :D it's actually a shack it is tin walled on the outside with a tin roof and was originally going to be a slaughterhouse but they cleaned it up, put carpet in and it's our house. It's one of the smallest places I've lived in but it's actually pretty comfortable. ^_^

I will send pictures of the whole affair later ok?

2014 Aug 20

Elder Draper -- Elder Padilla

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Benjamin Padilla
Awesome Chris.
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Melanie MontoyaLove you elder Padilla!!!

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Nate Padilla

I miss Tea. Hope all is well with him.
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Chris Padilla <chrispadillaaz@gmail.com>

He looks happy.  We miss him a lot too but know that he's growing tons right now.

2014 Aug 18

My week!

I was riding my bike down a road when all of a sudden I felt and heard a "puh puh puh" my tube was bulging through my tire, I began to pull off to the side to check it out when it went " BANG" and green slime covered the back of my shoes pants and front part of my bike! it was terribly funny afterwards but that slime smells terrible(I think they have fish oil or something in there that's an animal product, I was washing my hands off with dish soap and it still was barely coming out.)

So because of that I've been borrowing our ward mission leaders bike and that thing stinks...im all hunched over it and yeah I just don't like it much.

YEEPS!

after that not much else happened this week, we ate at members, lots of bugs are popping up right now before the winter blights them all so that's getting annoying. one shirt just had tiny little blood splatters from all the bugs I was ramming on my bike.

aside from that today is just the usual, shopping for some food, some deodorant, and a small bag of lemon drops to suck on periodically.

2014 Aug 11

:D I baptized LEO
YEEP! I baptized leo this Saturday! :D awesooome, it took a long time but it's worth it to see him smiling so much now.

Leo -- Elder Padilla -- Elder Draper

2014 Aug 4

OH NO!

I'm already to the sixth week again!? why is this moving back to fastforward in my mission!? D:

The time in the beginning of this transfer went a little slow because I realized I had hit my year mark and now the whole affair is on fastforward again!

We have Leo Britton on date for this coming Saturday so as we approach that I hope nothing happens again, because last time his friends offered him beer and he took it which was really disappointing.

As you are friends with others just remember that we are setting an example for all even if we can't see who we are affecting.

This past week was alright indeed though, Saturday was a heavy storm but it only lasted fifteen minutes.

Me and my companion, my companion relaxing

 

Brother schade and his wife and me,

and brother Sampson and me

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angpadilla@gmail.com " As you are friends with others just remember that we are setting an example for all even if we can't see who we are affecting." Wonderful words of advice!! Thx T!

2014 Jul 28

hey hey hey

how's it going out there in the world?

We had a baptism in the ward of people who are soon going back down to there home in Arizona.

How exciting is that?

Well aside from that everything was normal this week. we helped the members we lived with create a rockwall one morning and that was kind of cool(not a legitimate rock wall you'll understand just rocks stacked on each other to make a perimeter around some trees and grass in a corner.) We spent maybe 45 minutes on that then went back to work out in the world.

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Francisco Padilla

Nice work Elder. What was the name of the person that got baptized? Were they part of non-active/less-active family?

Glad to hear things are going well. Keep u the good work.

2014 July 21

2014 Mar 24

MY week has been going superbly. today we plan on going on a wonderful hike up some hills and go have a nice time as a zone.

The past week we have begun to teach one of our investigators sons. he is really cool and so far we have taught him about the restoration and the background of the book of mormon. He does however keep saying that he's already been baptized so that rigmarole will happen sooner or later.

The rest of our investigators are doing well(Tim Graves,Pat farrell, Bruce will, and Bruce Herndon) we plan to make a bunch of calls tomorrow to set up for them throughout the week. The other people we keep trying to see throughout the week will hopefully be there, but these people we can meet without fail.

We have been doing well, but this last week was again CRAMMED with meetings. it was interviews and also stake conference which was an hour drive for us. yeah it's a good distance away...but worth it nonetheless(the conference was, the meeting was just a bunch of old hash, rehashed again)

I hope the rest of you are having a goodtime reading your scriptures. I just finished the new testament and im back in it again, combing over it once more.

2014 July 21

because it's para-para paradiiise. :D

Aaaah such a nice easy week. We taught people and met with all our pleasant investigators. Sure one fell off date and one has still not come to church yet but you know what? it was a wonderful week nonetheless. I took it slower as I peddled on my bike and just breathed in a little more and all was right with the world again.

:oD honk.

I have to say this about the scriptures in New Testament, the further back you get, the more you realize how much of the book of Mormon really parallels the scriptures and all their teachings. Odd because most of the book of Mormon happens before or after new testament and yet they are so in sync! I find it delightful to read in Enos but it's honestly the scantiest book in there and also very full at the same time.

P.S. I hope all of you are studying yourselves. It['s a good way to spend a little time and a good way to come together around a common part of the gospel.

P.S.S from good to great. :D

OK so here I am again and you can spread around this story, but we got up from the library computers for a second to use the restroom and as we were going there a gangster with a blue bandanna on his head, a swastika tattooed on the side of his head and had upside-down crosses tattooed on his chest stopped us and said "LDS right?"I go simply "yeah"

and here I quote the rest of the conversation, just him talking mind you. "Ah man I have the utmost respect for you guys, I've read the whole Book of Mormon and the discourses of Joseph Smith, I won't join, but I find it really uplifting. all these other churches profess to believe and follow the words of Christ but you guys really do it. and now you have this whole twelve step program thing you are just really going at it. I've seen videos from people who've studied it all the way from the beginning but you guys are just Deep. thanks though man I appreciate what you guys do for the community"

 :D Aaaaah, I love the humbled and those that like us a lot.

2014 June 30

:D I am going back into Idaho, next to Coeur D'Alene apparently! I am elated and kind of sad that i am leaving this area.

I'm sad because I've spent a fourth of my mission here, and you don't spend that long without either loving or despising the area and the people. And i loved it here, my landlords, my companions, our investigators, and our good members. I'll miss them all.

On the other side of the coin though, i'm excited because apparently the area i'm going to keeps busy CONSTANTLY and i haven't been in an area with that as such of yet. just very booney areas where i butcher sheep and swing mauls in order to chop up wood and try and have lessons.

I don't know how i'll adjust to having lessons every day. that don't cancel on us! O_O i think i'll enjoy it.

ALSO do you know what happens this July 17th? I hit my year mark. that's right a year out on the mission. Surprising in all honesty so yeah...I've made it this far! :D exciting, i look back and i think "huh it cant have been that long..." Then i pour threw my diary and go "0_0 yeeeaah it's been that long"

My address will be
8475 N.Chase Rd
Post Falls, ID 83854

2014 July 7

Well I am ecstatic to be heeere! I'm so happy that as I've been moved I've gotten more work to do, we meet with people five to eight times a day and that's so much better then getting your single lesson cancelled on you!

 We don't do much servicebut that's ok I won't miss it to much. ^_^

On the first day I road in an old I believe 69 mail jeep. it was so cool, and so small inside I sat on a wheel well, my feet propped up on the spare tire.We were being driven somewhere because my bike wasn't with me yet. once we got to the trailers we started teaching from the time brother schrade offered me a Beer(of Root. :P) all the way to when we closed down the day walking home at 8, which actually made me sore because we were so far away from home...

The next day I borrowed a bike and started riding it. We got around much faster yes, but I still despise bikes... We finished the route and met lots of people at that point(some who were kind others not so much) We again met many interesting people to the unforgettable and charming Kelly(who owns a hundred cats because he doesn't neuter any of them) to the delightful brother Sampson(the guy who drives us around the most.)

We'll skip to Saturday because my time on the computer is running low...

On Saturday we met with Colby and investigator who is pretty darn cool, and who fixed his buddies muffler with a beer can and Hose clamps. Regular MacGyver there. I then also figured out the house we are staying in was supposed to be a slaughterhouse. Oh how wonderful missionary housing can be. ^^;

On sunday we had a superb time with three investigators coming to church. We sat next to Leo who was on date but now is off it so we plan to get him back in line. :D I think this area is great though(aside from the biking :/)

Well i'll talk to ya'll later, send me questions and i'll answer them! :D