Oceanside, California

Hello Family! It has been a great interesting week Surprise! Ha ha. Soo me and my companion were sitting having personal study and almost finished when we got a call from the Assistants...and they needed a spot filled in Murrietta and they needed a good missionary so they took Ole Elder Bird to Murrietta. Now i am in a tri-panionship with Elder Hannamen and elder Ioeulo both from Utah and Hawaii here in Oceanside. These missionaries are awesome! I love Oceanside 4th ward. Elder Hannamen and Elder Iouelo are so full of love it is amazing. And they are obedient. We are also right by the ocean(hence the name) ha ha. We have had some good times. We have got to have some powerful lessons. President Kendrick is also very cool. He is so humble and he lets us know he loves us. It is pretty cool. He is very laid back but in a safe way. When he sent me our weekly letter he just said two words-"thanks Elder, love you." He is pretty cool but it means alot! We have half car half bike here in Oceanside. It would be fun if we had full bike. Its alll good! biking can be fun, We were able to have some lessons at the church this week and it is amazing to feel the spirit there. And to be able to have some Fun lessons at the same time. People need to be both spiritually and socially converted to the church. Friends overcome fear. Members are important. We might start meeting some Less Actives there also. Anyways, last night i learned more about the importance of remembrance. When we remember we feel the spirit. And how do we feel the spirit in remembrance? We re-live the experience in our minds. We also got a new Ward Mission Leader yesterday. He seems pretty cool. We also have a baptism lined up for Saturday. Her name is Mandy...Thompson. There are a ton of Thompsons out here. They are all pretty nice. So things have been going awesome here in Oceanside. We are having a good time, a little too much fun though . We can see the ocean from our apartment. working effectively is very important. These elders are also contacting beasts..yes I said it. And they work. So tell GG i said hi. As well as Grandma Harlow and Thompson. The work is great! The weather is great. The spiritual experiences are amazing and lessons.. Oh ya...and when you think you need new shoes....just shine them. ha ha. Love, Elder Thompson

That is really cool! I am glad you all had such a great time! keep it up! I have some new companions that are awesome! I love it here. They are full of love. Glad you had such a great time! Enjoy resting! You need it!

Carlsbad, California Week 2

Thank you for the email! That is awesome! Glad to hear you are at EMily's and doing alll that stuff! That will be fun!! That should be a blast. YOu will have fun! I am sure Emily will be making some awesome food! Glad to hear you got to go also! And thanks for the letter! Glad to hear about the shoes. I will see if i get time to write a letter, send it to chantellse adress! Short one this week! This week has been a great week! I went on exchanges in a different ward from Friday night to Saturday, as my companion was exchanging also. But on Saturday we were able to meet our new mission President. His name is President Kendirck from Plano, Texas ( Dallas are). He is awesome. He seems like a ver down to earth tpye of mission president. He is very nice as well as sister kendrick. They are both awesome. We were also able to have interviews with him and ask them any question we wanted. He runs(trots) for 30 minutes every morning. There youngest child is 17 but is going to BYU-Idaho. Anyways. Good week. Cool district. WE have been having some good times. WE were able to find a few more people to teach this week. Over all things have been good here! It is a bike/walk area. People are awesome as always! :)

The OBrien Family

Janae,

Elder Thompson requested my husband before he transferred to play and sing Come Thou Fount and asked us to email it to him but the file was too large. I tried to attached the file her but it is giving me the same issue. What I can do is wait for you to accept my request and send it through your wall. Your son is an amazing missionary and he was trained by Elder Clark who was a great missionary as well. We truly enjoyed his company and cared about him. Our daughter Ella adores him and she was sad that he had to leave. Your son is serving the Lord with one thing in mind, to make our Heavenly Father proud and he is doing a remarkable job.
Thank you for sharing him to us.

Sincerely,

The OBriens

Alex is in Carlsbad!

Ha ha mom, It's alright, I guess it was time.. I was hoping to create a new Facebook and change my age..ha ha but its all good. I am so glad to be here!

Everything is going so great!

I am glad you are talking to some more mothers! I took some pictures. Elder Russel and Thompson are also awesome and the rest of them.

The people here are awesome! A little different than Temecula but it is AWESOME. It has been an amazing week once again! Enjoying things!

Glad to see JAMES and SISTER ROBERTS and BILL!!!!! THAT IS SOOO AWESOME!!!!!I am soooo glad they have all SHOWED UP!! THAT IS SOOO AWESOME THANKS!!! SO ya it has been a while. That is awesome that you got to go to the potluck also and that Dad got to go to New Orleans!

I am right on the Ocean.

Jordan starts school tomorrow right? WOW! Crazy!

So yesterday, our New Mission President cam e in from Plano, Texas. He seems pretty awesome. We also gained a stake (the Murrietta Stake) It has been Crazy! I am excited for President Kendrick to take over he seems awesome! I got transferred to Carlsbad. Right on the ocean! It is leaves you at awe.The people are way cool also! Very nice. Man, and there are 2 sets of Elders in our ward! And Bikes and feet. It is great! This area is pretty cool! Brianna would love it. So awesome! I am going to send some miracles in pretty soon if i have some time. It has been crazy awesome! We had an awesome transfer meeting also. We all said good bye to President and Sister Cook. Good times. Alright,. i also took some pics Oh ya, and my new companion is Elder Bird from Springville, Utah he is AWESOME! this is my MTC (Elder JAbosens) last area. But that doesn't matter. Just so you know it is RIGHT on the coast...Crazy! Both my MTC roommates last area. k. So yesterday me and my companion went out to eat with a lady who was a convert of about 5 years. She talked about how she had started to look into the Church while she could not walk right and was in bed and she listened(without any contact with missionaries) the entire Book of Mormon, Doctrine of Covenants and Pearl of Great Price before she could walk again and she just new it was true. As soon as she could walk she got up and fell and broke her wrist (she was also almost blind). So she also walked with a walker. So she had to stay in bed another 2 months. Well 2 months were over and she got up on Sunday, still determined. And walked a mile and a half, holding a walker with a cast on her arm and barley being able to see, to the Church building. When she got there she asked for the Bishop ( she had brought her tithing) and told him she wanted to be baptized. Anyways, amazing. She was baptized a few weeks later. After that she wanted to do baptisms in the Temple for her family but she was concerned because she couldn't see however she just kept feeling like it was going to be OK. AS she got to the Temple and went to the front desk she lifted off her glasses so the Temple Recommend guy could see her face and as she did her sight was restored right there and than. amazing. Last week on Monday we texted a Less Active to go see if we could stop by. He said we could on a quick note. We had knocked on this guys door probably 10 times and he always said we could come back. Anyways this time he let us in and you could tell, a light was just turned on inside of him He was happy. And when we got there his wife came down the stairs with tears on the verge of crying and said she had to tell us something. She mentioned a few things she had been going through in her life and started crying a little in the process. She is pretty awesome. She is not a member and she wanted to come to Church. her husband stated that it was time to come back. He was planned to come back to church last Sunday for the first time in 23 years.. It is pretty amazing. He mentioned how he used to love to go but things just hadn't worked out and he had gone through a rough time. Now his wife is hopefully coming with him because she has a strong desire to go back. Anyways that was in Temecula but pretty cool..

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, have miracles ceased because Christ hath ascended into heaven, and hath sat down on the right hand of God, to claim of the Father his rights of mercy which he hath upon the children of men?...29 And because he hath done this, my beloved brethren, have miracles ceased? Behold I say unto you, Nay; neither have angels ceased to minister unto the children of men." Moroni 7

Have a good week! You don't have to put the Ladies story on there i just thought it was pretty coo.l. Actually do. Got to go! There are a lot more pictures to send! Will send more next week! Let m know Bye love you mom!