Elder Dallin Talbot's Mission Fresno California 2015-2017

I forgot my camera at someones house yesterday and we have not been able to send any again.  This has been a super fun day that we started off by having brother Durrant take us on a good little drive so we could play in the snow!!  We got cold pretty quickly and went back to a warmer place but we still had a lot of fun up there.  Christmas and the week was so much fun.  I love the Spirit of Christmas and a great reason for all of us to more fully turn to Christ and what he has done for us.  I hope we are all able to keep him in our hearts as we go throughout the year.  It was hard to find or meet many new people this week and a lot of people were not home.  We had our Christmas devotional on Thursday with some other zones and then played some fun games before it ended and we headed back out to get to work.  We were able to meet a very nice less active brother, Rusty Jones this week and we hope that we will be able to help him feel the Spirit and i...

Sadly this week Youa had to drop us do to some family complications, it still hasn't hit me that we can't keep teaching her.  I miss her and her family already.  We were not able to find anyone to teach again this week.  We were very busy teaching our recent converts this week as well as less active families.  We were able to meet the Faunes, the Lindseys, and some other families that I don't remember.  The most exciting thing this week was the mini missionaries.  They took youth 16 and older who volunteered and set them apart as missionaries for a few days, Friday through Sunday, so they get to have a taste of missionary work.  It was so much fun.  Our missionary was Elder Aland from the nearby Tulare ward.   I will have someone call or test you as soon as we find out when we can skype.   We have a breakfast at 8 our time, church at 10, a dinner at 3, and the bishops  family wants us to come over, but we have not been able to...

W e were not able to do any service at the Porterville museum but we did spend a lot of time helping people move this week.  The Hoffmans and lots of other people lived in the same apartment and someone put in there 30 days or something so we were helping pack and move things to lots of different places.  Sadly on Saturday the Sean and Sheena were not able to go with the ward to the ward temple trip to do baptisms because of some things that came up.  We had fun last week playing a board game called steam punk rally.  Its a racing game with lots of parts and dice but it was fun.  I have not been biking in a while so my tire is just sitting in our apartment flat because I keep forgetting to fix it.  We got transfer calls yesterday and I will be here for 7 more weeks with Elder Wilmoth.  Things I have learned about him, he did mixed martial arts for 12 years back home, he works hard, and he helps me to stay focused.   We have been sharing that video...