Elder Laine Carter in the California Ventura Mission

We are on self-isolation too so all of our lessons and contacting is done through technology. We don’t interact with anyone, even members. It is so hard but we are making it work  We are still getting some missionary work done. Chanel is getting baptized in a couple weeks so we are working a lot with her. We do have to deal with a lot of the changes though.  Funny story: We had a few extra cars from missionaries going home so we were gonna give them to elders who were on bikes. So one day we got the mission 10 passenger van and drove to the elders apartment and picked them up. We didn’t tell them before though. We just showed up and barged in their door and told them they were coming with us. We picked up 3 different companionships and they were all so confused. So after we had them all in we drove to the mission office and when we got there we were like "elders is there something you want to tell us?" And a few of them got bright red then we started laughing and pu...

Isaac, Elder Schoen and Elder Carter With the craziness from this virus I have to meet with President Nakken this morning to figure some things out so my p-day will probably be gone. Just know that all is well and the Lords work still goes on. I am healthy and well taken care of here.  Isaac and his family Mtn Dew = essential On a good note Isaac got baptized last Saturday!!! We are still working with Chanel and are praying she will still be able to be baptized on the 28th. I'll keep you updated on that one

Isaac is getting baptized on March 14th so a couple weeks. He is doing super good! We had a lesson with him last night and he is all set. Jerry is still kinda in a limbo. He did come to church yesterday though so we were happy to see him there. Speaking of pit bulls there was one day that I was on an exchange with another elder. We went up to this house and walked through this gate they had so we could get to the door. On our way up to the door we saw about 50 ft away this vicious pit bull was staring us down. But we still knocked on the door and the guy answered really quickly. He came out and was like "yo I have a pit bull" and stood in between us and it. He wasn't interested so we left and right when we closed the gate the dog went nuts. Barking and jumping and looked like it wanted to kill us. The Lord definitely protected us on that one.  I'll give you another story about a lady we found named Chanel. She is a single mom whose granddaughter lives with...

Elder Carter and President Nakken Transfers are OK!