Birthday Bash

Matt Molen
Aug 8, 2017 · 3 min read

August 8, 2017

Note from Cameron’s Dad: If you haven’t seen it, Cameron is a HUGE star in this video [at 7:05]

Busy week! I can’t believe it’s already Monday again, I feel like I just emailed home yesterday!

Tuesday:

We were about to head out and go proselyting, when we get a call telling us that a sister in Vista needed some help moving a few things from a storage unit into a moving truck. So we go in our pros (Pronounced: pross; i.e. white shirt, slacks, tie, dress shoes) because we didn’t think it would take very long or be very much stuff, but then they tell us that we have to go to her house and load it with even more stuff, and it ended up taking 4 HOURS!!

Wednesday:

We drove out to get passes so we could go onto Camp Pendleton, and we drove down a part that we biked for our Pacific Coast Highway bike trip! We even saw the bridge that Austin almost died on. Ah memories….

Thursday:

Taught 3 investigators, lemme just tell ya it’s super frustrating when people don’t keep commitments!! So read your scriptures y’all, it’s good for you.

Friday:

Not a ton of stuff happened today. Had Taco Bell for dinner so yum.

Saturday:

WOW. Just wow. Days like these are what make the mission fun. We helped a crazy old lady move stuff inside from her yard sale, and then she tried to convince us that the trinity is a thing and gave us scriptures to read that actually just proved herself wrong. So yeah nice job Linda

We set up like 4 appointments, picked up like 3 potential investigators, and taught the Resto to a girl and gave her a BoM. Then at dinner, the family threw a birthday party for Elder Mann because his birthday was on Thursday, and we had cake and they even bought him dollar store presents to open haha.

That night we had another appointment and set up a baptism! Super exciting!!

Sunday:

We had 3 people come to sacrament so that’s a highlight. And then our dinner appointment wanted to eat at 3pm because it was fast Sunday, so that was also a tender mercy haha.

I also had my first real bash today with some rando on the street. He was yelling and saying Moroni is an angel of the devil and all of this garbage, and then at the end he started singing a song he wrote. On the bright side it was completely terrible!

I love and miss you guys, just know that Heavenly Father will answer your prayers, and that Baskin Robins actually has some decent ice cream. 1 Nephi 11:17

Love,
Elder Molen

P.S. If you got the pun in the subject then you’re pretty cool.

Elder Mann’s birthday party that we had at our apartment. (August 1, 2017)
Elder Mann’s second birthday party that was thrown by a member (they gave him like 10 presents too!)(August 5, 2017)
Just us (August 5, 2017)
Screenshot from MTC video mentioned above (August 8, 2017)

Elder Molen

California Carlsbad Mission

    Matt Molen

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    Tanga CMO. Smokin' hot wife. 3 awesome kids. Enjoys photography & a good burger.

    Elder Molen

    California Carlsbad Mission

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