Monday, December 25, 2017

Christmas - Call with Elder Gibbons


Today we got to talk as a family. Elder Gibbons didn't get to email or check his email but he did get to call the family. We all loved it. He spoke in Spanish for quite a while. He talked about his work in a new area, with a new companion, both of them just out of training. Elder Nelson is from South Jordan and he and Andrew both finished training and are serving as Co Senior Companions in north Hollywood. This was where Grandma Gibbons grew up so he might make his way back to his grandma's old neighborhood. He's doing fantastic. He loves his mission and the people he is serving. He is learning a lot and the people he's teaching have a lot of patience, with him and his companion. We loved hearing his stories. We ended with Andrew leaving us a prayer in Spanish. It was beautiful and we all cried after. Anson of course cried the most, and wanted to call his brother right back. We stay busy and so does Andrew. We are happy to sacrifice our remarkable son for this time in his life.
We love him and look forward to our next call on Mother's Day.





Monday, December 18, 2017

Van Nuys Week 12 - Temple, Ward Christmas Party, and Christmas in the apt.




Hola Hola Familia!
   Como estan? Well this week flew by. We did so many things like interviews, Temple trip, and transfers especially. I was super nervous for transfers, I had a pretty good feeling that I was going to leave because they needed to put the Zone leaders back together. And come to find out I was right. So I have been transfered to the North Hollywood Zone and I'll be in Buena Vista area with Elder Nelson as my new companion. Not to sure who he is but I already got a feeling I'm gonna like him.
  Alright so this week was a blast, Tuesday we had interviews with president Henrie, I went in with a question that I really needed an answer to. Our area had been struggling in trying to get the members involved. So I asked him," How can we do better to get the ward more involved with missionary work?" And he responded, "Elder Gibbons one thing you can do is pray for more member activity especially for member presents." This experience really testified to me that the power of prayer is real, and if you have enough faith and you are doing the things you should be he will answer your prayer. That was a real eye-opener for me because I hadn't even thought about praying for something like that. I know now that I can turn to my Father in Heaven for anything I need help with not just a select few.
   Also we went to the temple this week!😃😃 This was an amazing experience, reason one I hadn't been to the temple in a long time and It felt awesome to be back inside of the Lords house. Reason 2 we got to see a lot of missionaries that we hadn't seen in a long time. I will send some pictures but the LA temple is beautiful and big, and it really stands out even in a city like LA  I went in with the hope that I would be able to know how I could better teach the investigators I now have, and how I could better help them on their way to baptism. I learned quite a few things from that experience and am now trying to do those things that would help me be a better representative of the Lord. I was able to meet and talk a little bit with Elder Quiroz he's super nice and an awesome missionary (took some pictures with him).
   Ok so crazy teaching experience. So we go to church and we meet this man named George or Jorge (not sure how to spell it). Anyways we start talking to him and turns out he participated in the Book of Mormon experiment and actually came to church so he could see what it was like in the Mormon church. He's from Argentina so he has a Sha, which for me is super hard to understand sometimes but he really liked church and he's already come 2 times. I think he will accept a baptismal date muy rapido because he has a sincere desire to find out the truth.  Anyways we have plans to teach him on Wednesday, unfortunately, I will be in NoHo by then. Spanish has improved a lot since I first got here. I now understand what we are talking about in Gospel Principles and Priesthood. I can also understand the majority of the talks that people give. So this past Sunday we talked about having faith and one thing that stood out to me that Hermano Poroj said was, " Tenemos fe en las cosas que estamos haciendo, especialamente como un misionero."  In order to teach someone and help them keep commitments we have to have faith that they are going to do so, if we don't have faith in an investigator they will not progress.
   Alright so this P-day we went to Buffalo Wild Wings as a zone and its a tradition in the zone to do the Blazin Challenge which is you have to eat 12 wings with the blazin hot sauce on them in under 6 minutes. So of course you know I had to do it. Let me tell you I have had a lot of hot things in my life but this was HOT!!!! Well to say the least I completed the Challenge in 4 minutes and 23 seconds and then I ran to the bathroom to get this hot sauce off of my face and hands. I was crying like the whole time because my eyes would not stop watering my nose was just drained and my mouth and face and hands were on fire for the next 20 minutes. I'll send some pictures becasue they're pretty funny. (see blog at Lagransanfernando.blogspot.com)
 So the biggest thing I learned from my training is that In order to be an effective missinary you have to be obedient both of my trainers were super good at being exactly obedient and fulfilling their calling as both a missionary and a zone leader and thats hard to do because like Elder Lytle said, "Something will always happen." and he was right something always did happen,(Usually it was with the hermanas being scared about something that really wasn't a big deal) Shhh don't tell them I said that!
  Wednesday was Elder Garcias birthday so we suprised him by waking up and going to Denny's. We told him that we were going to help the hermanas move some bunk beds  so when we showed up at denny's he was super excited.
  As of right now I'm super excited but super nervous I'll be in a new area with a new companion with new people but I will have fun. I hope everyone has a good week I love this work and wouldn't trade anything in the world for this opportunity to be here.  I love you all so much, Play hard sissies. (Sorry theres no recording I was busy packing all night yesterday but I've got pictures with a lot of the people I loved from the ward). Con Amor.
Elder Gibbons
Elder Costello - Splits



Christmas in Van Nuys Apt. - Hand Tree created with hands of friends, leaders, and family

Hno Recinos - Ward Mission Leader - Van Nuys 5to

Ward Christmas party

Gutierrez Family



Ugly Christmas sweaters with our apartment missionaries





Hno Hernandez and his wife



Los Angeles Temple Trip - Thursday December 14



Elder Horrocks

Companion - Elder Horrocks

Elder Quiroz 

Elder Leischman, and Elder Cardwell

Buffalo Wild Wings Challenge - HOT!!




I had to sign a waver. It wasn't pretty but I did it in 4 minutes and 23 seconds. I had a solid minute and half left, but had to run to the bathroom to wash off the HOT sauce!

Monday, December 11, 2017

Week 11 Van Nuys - 12/11/2017


Hola Familia!
  Todo esta bien aqui. estoy aprendiendo espanol rapidamente. Ayer yo estaba hablando con una hermana que fue a guatemala primeramente para servir alla. Pero ella regreso a su casa porque tenia un enfermidad. Despues casi un mes ella era llamado a servir aqui en este mision. Lo que paso es que ella solo puede hablar en espanol porque es de Mexico entonces yo trate a platicarle y yo entendi casi todo. A veces hay palabras que no me entender pero ahora yo puedo comprender mucho y tambien contestar con confianza en mi espanol. Yo espero que todo este bien y ustedes pueden termino limpiando el piso abajo. estoy muy emocionado a hablarles esta navidad. Que les vayan bien.
 How was that? Its a work in progress but I really can understand a lot of what people are saying I talked and had a full conversation in spanish with this Hermana I was talking about above she was really nice and helped me out if I didn't know a word but must latinos are like that. Well I love the work down here Its super fun and I wouldn't want to be in any other mission. Thats exciting with how much ball is taking place they might be able to beat me by the time I get back. Remember to practice left hand an right hand dribbling so you can cross over if you need to get around a defender. And you can drive both directions not just one.
  Alright so questions, Operation gratitude was amazing we got to see a lot of missionaries that were about to go home but also that was my first time doing organized service the whole time I've been in the mission it was nice to be able to participate. So what we did is we filled care packages for troops, we got in a big line and just went down the line putting stuff in a bag and then once we were finished we got back in line again. With all the participants that were there we filled 2 million care packages for troops pretty cool right? I think that it looks like me and Elder Garcia were companions because Elder Horrocks was going around talking to all the people he knew from valencia zone. So me Elder Cardwell and Elder Garcia were just kinda in line talking to all the other Elders and Hermanas from our old zone that we knew. We all had a good time and it was fun to finally be able to do service.
  The Book Of Mormon experiment was awesome! To me it was like undercover missionary work. So in order to participate in the BOM experiment we had to get dressed in normal street clothes, we didn't wear a name tag so people didn't know we were missionaries. We had a clipboard, a highlighter and a page from the BOM that had information on the back that people could fill out if they wanted to learn more about the experiment. So what we did is we asked people if they wanted to read a religious piece of text (I mean after you had said "Hi nice to meet you" and stuff like that) and if they said yes then we asked them to highlight any references to God and Jesus Christ. Then we asked them what they liked about it and if they would like to find out more. And if they said yes and they gave us their address and phone number we sent them in as a referral. Overall we got about 500 referrals out of 1369 participants. Me and Elder Garcia talk about this on the recording too, but we met with 2 of the Main people from the mission department and they said by far we had done the best out of any mission they had done it with. And we were one of 3 that did it. I loved it not only because it proved that the BOM is another testament of Jesus Christ but also because people were more receptive to undercover missionaries because they saw you as an equal. We had latinos ask if this page was from the bible because of how powerful it was and then we also had people say that they were really interested in what the rest of the book said. However sometimes when we told them we were Mormons and that they were reading the BOM they instantly said Oh no I'm good. Just goes to show you that if you read it with an open mind the Holy Ghost will testify that the fruit thereof is good and then they will want to partake more of it. I loved the BOM experiment.
   Our investigators are good Jose Chavez wasn't able to come to church because he got a new phone number and he wasn't able to contact us beforehand. But we will get him there this week and he will be ready to be baptized on the 23rd of December. Please pray that he can make it there next week cause if not then we will have to drop him. However we are gonna have to fly teaching him lessons so that he can be taught everything he needs to know before he gets baptized as of right now we have only taught him the first three lessons so we are gonna teach him the 10 commandments next time we see him. The Uturunco familia is doing good only Maria and Brando (the son) made it to church today but we were happy to see them there, Brando has already been to church 3 times so as soon as we teach him the rest of the lessons he will be ready to be baptized. Maria has been 2 times and the Dad, Rafael has been only once. But because of such poor conditions they live in they have to work like all the time and the dad will most likely not be able to come to church for a while because of how much he works for his family. We will have to bodly promise blessings and hope that he can find a job that will allow him to come to church. I have such a great love for them and want them to come unto Christ because I know how much more this would help them rather than a job.
   As of right now I will not know until Saturday if I'm getting transferred I have a strong feeling that I will be unfortunately. I think that they will put the Zone leaders back together because right now they are split and its real difficult to have a split zone leader companionship. So I will probably not be in that apartment for Christmas 😢. But something else that happened this week was the fires! Holy Cow it was nuts how much smoke was in the air you could hardly breath. There was ash just floating around like crazy it reminded me of snow so we actually got a semi white Christmas down here or at least we got as close to a white Christmas as we could. We had to go and purchase masks it was so bad, everyone on the streets was wearing masks too because you weren't breathing Oxygen at all it was just straight smoke. Elder Horrocks and I had to come back early because his lungs were just destroying him because of how much stuff he had breathed in. Elder Cardwell and Elder Garcia didn't go out the second day because they were both just dying from the smoke they were both hacking up a lung. It was worse for them because they're on bike but me and Elder Horrocks have a car so It wasn't nearly as bad for us. I think I hear in total there was about 4 or 5 big fires several smaller ones and by the second day the big ones were still 0% contained because of how strong the wind was. The Valley got some of the worst of it because all the smoke just fills down in the valley. But everyone is O.K. only 3 companionship's got evacuated and eventually they were allowed to go back into their house.
  Right now I'm studying In the BOM Alma 12 where it talks about the unity that Alma and Amulek had while they were teaching Zeezrom and verse 1 of chapter 12 is really what I'm really trying to become like. He notices the spirit and the testifies of what Amulek had said and then he testifies and teaches what he knew and with that dynamic duo they silenced Zeezrom and just as a general authority promised (can't remember which one) but you will not be confounded by men. They literally converted Zeezrom because of the unity in their companionship. I'm really striving to perfect that unity in mine and Elder Horrocks companionship. As of right now because of how crazy this week has been we haven't really been teaching anyone new but we did just barely get about 5 or 6 referrals sent to us throught the BOM experiment so hopefully we will have some new Baptismal dates really soon.
  I know that what i'm doing is what I'm supposed to be doing right now, I love this work and there is nothing that has brought me this much joy than to be able to bring souls unto Christ full time. I love this gospel and know that it is true. Feliz Navidad I hope that everyone has a good week, play hard in your games girls don't let anyone take the ball away protect it like its your baby (coach linda quote). Love you all, con amor.
Elder Gibbons

Operation Gratitude


Elder Gibbons helped with other missionaries serving in Operation Gratitude. Look at the joy in serving on every one of these missionaries face. The great California San Fernando mission. This is what President Nelson said: “Our Church, Mission and missionaries were recognized today as part of Operation Gratitude’s “Volunteer Army” and being part of the heart and soul of what they do. Our missionaries were recognized for their urgency, focus and hard work serving along side many other volunteers throughout the community. We were told, "this enabled the assembly and delivery of the 2 Millionth Care Package today." We were happy and honored to be recognized as, “…an integral part of this historic milestone event.” Just another day for us, especially in this Christmas season—striving to #LightTheWorld”



Monday, December 4, 2017

Week 10 - Van Nuys - 12/4/2017





Hello Family,
   Well before I get called to repentance let me explain myself. We got home from the Hike and went to the Computer lab to email, unfortunately all the computers were taken except two. So we decided that Elder Garcia and Elder Cardwell better email first because they had to watch an hour or so long training for the Book of Mormon Experiment they are going to participate in. So me and Elder Horrocks decided to go up to the apartment and shower and get ready so we could go get grocries and email. But again we got down to the computer lab and everything was still taken. So we wait for about 45 minutes and then one opens up so we both got to email president and chat for a little bit,  but about 5 minutes after that one opened up Elder Cardwell and Garcia finished and went up to the room to change so, we each got our own computer for about 10 to 15 minutes. That was the time I used to chat you and then, they came back down and were ready to go eat lunch and get grocries and by this time It was about 2:30 p.m. so we were all starving. So we went out to lunch and got grocries and barely made it home before 5. But Elder Horrocks has to type some stuff for ZLC and gave me permission to write a little bit.

So this week we got three new baptismal dates, a very awesome and solid family from Peru, they live in a very small room and work very hard to earn a living. This was kinda a blessing because our area had been struggling finding new baptismal dates. But I know that because of Fast Sunday and the power of the fast we were able to get three new dates. Jose Chavez has been going to church lately which is awesome he's been the last two times which is incredible. If he can come next week he will be on track for his Baptismal date. So Let me bear testimony to everyone that fasting isn't suffering for 2 meals but its a blessing to be able to have the opportunity to fast. Think about the people who don't how to fast and how to receive those blessings. So the Family thats on date their names are Brando, Rafeal, and Maria they love the gospel and we taught a super good lesson with them the night we got them on date (which was yesterday night). The spirit was so strong in there little tiny room that wasn't even a little bit nice. This just goes to show that the savior doesn't care about your social status, or how good you are at something, or what you look like, or where your from, He loves you. He will let you feel the presence of the Holy Ghost if your worthy to receive it.
   We've been trying hard to get Christian to come to church but every week he comes up with a new excuse so we will have to identify obstacles with him in a lesson and ask him what he thinks he can do to overcome those obstacles. And Elvia was able to make it to church but as of right now she is very close to a drop, one because she doesn't keep commitments and two because she isn't serious about trying to overcome her obstacle for baptism. Well all I had was 10 minutes so that was the best I could do I'm sending pictures and the recording. Love you all so much, Sorry for the short letter, hope you have a good week! Les amo.
Elder Gibbons




Monday, November 27, 2017

Week 9 - Van Nuys - 11/27/2017

Korean Church in our Area

Hola Todos!
 Anyways this week has been pretty good Elder Horrocks and I. We had a good Thanksgiving. So, if you remember correctly from last week we had no one sign up for us on the dinner calendar. We were planning to use the gift card and the money that his mom sent him and head to the Cheesecake Factory that night. But that day we got a call from the Senior couple (The Haws) and they invited us to a Thanksgiving lunch with them and a couple of other missionaries. The food was delicious and we got to see some of the people who were in our zone from last transfer there too. However it was really hot outside that day  (the car read 97 degrees) so after we ate all that Turkey and then went out proselyting it was hard to stay awake. Eventually though we burned through the turkey really quickly because of how much we were sweating. So around 8 O' clock we decided to head to the Cheesecake Factory. We get to the mall parking lot, park, and then head up. But everything was closed in that mall. We were pretty bummed out so we went back down to the car. We thought that it was free parking but as soon as we put the ticket in the machine it told us we had to pay 3 bucks. So we just went to this mall place to just pay 3 bucks. So now we were really kinda frustrated. Anyways we decide to drive back to the apartment and look for restaurants on the way. All of them were closed except for one. So on Thanksgiving night I had a delicious quarter pounder jalapeno cheese burger with fries and a milkshake from Carls Junior. It was delicious and we had a good time.
   The coolest thing happened on Sunday night. First, a little back story: One night when me and Elder Costello were on exchanges we were about to head back to the car and call it a night, but I saw this tall black guy sitting outside with his dog and decided that we better talk to him. So we start a conversation with this man and he turns out to be an awesome person. He is from Congo and speaks 3 different dialects from there. Then he moved to France when he was a little bit older so he learned French and then he moved to California in order to finish his schooling. As of right now he is trying to learn Spanish. Just an all around ambitious man. So as were talking to him he says that he has to go but he would love to hear our message another time. Now, to Sunday evening: Elder Horrocks and I were wondering if we should either had back to the apartment and eat dinner or try and visit someone. I for some reason thought we should try and visit this man (his name is Denis). So I called him up and he didn't answer so I thought well maybe we should just go back to the apartment and eat. But then we get a call back from his number and he said we could go and visit him. We show up to his apartment and he invites us in. Turns out he had read and studied the entire pamphlet and then gave it to his girlfriend to read and study. So when we told him about the Book of Mormon he was extremely excited to be able to read it. He told us that he would take notes and mark it so that we could discuss it a lot next time. We're going to put him on date the next time we meet with him and probably hand him off to the English elders.
   So other than that we also got a member to come to church with us. His name is Jose Chavez. We put him on date and gave him a baptismal calendar. He is a super solid dude and loved his experience at church. We are going to just make sure that this guy can stay on date because we really are trying hard to get a baptism. But for some reason it's been a difficult past few weeks as far as putting people on date.
   As of right now I'm studying Mosiah 11,12,13 where it talks about King Noah and the wicked priests but also about Abinadi. Something that I've noticed about the way Abinadi teaches is that he is very bold and does not fear what man will think of him. One of my goals I set this week for weekly planning was to be more bold when I extend an Invitation and who better to learn from than from the prophets who wrote the Book of Mormon. So as of this week I am going to try and be more like Abinadi when I invite people to do something. And just like it says in PMG unless you invite people to change they most likely wont.
    Spanish is coming a long nicely. I can understand a lot of what people are saying, and I have almost all of the conjugations down. As of right now I am studying sentence structure and vocabulary so I can explain and elaborate on different aspects of each lesson.
   I hope you have a good week. Les amo,
Elder Gibbons
Orange trees grown in California - 90+ degrees in November


Monday, November 20, 2017

Week 8 - Van Nuys - 11/20/2017


Happy Thanksgiving from Cali!
  Hello, Family, I hope everyone is doing alright. Everything is going well here. Elder Horrocks and I are having a blast together. He's super funny. Anyways I'm glad to hear that Carson is alright. That is very scary and I'm grateful that he can still run. I know he'll do awesome in Cali because well I'm here so why wouldn't he do awesome. So this Zone Conference has been my favorite out of all of them. Of course, I've only been here for two but still. We talked a lot about the Light the World campaign that the church does. This campaign is awesome mainly because referrals fly in like crazy for missionaries all over the world. There are 25 videos every day leading up to Christmas that invite people to do nice things for others. So I invite all of you to watch them and then to do what the video says. Also (this is for mom) share the videos on Facebook or however you can. There will be little cards that I can send each of you that I want you guys to give out to someone who is not a member of the church. 
    So along with a good time to be a missionary, it's an awesome time to be a member too because this is the easiest time of the year to do missionary work.  We also received the announcement that we will be turning into a smartphone mission so hopefully, we get the smartphones before Christmas so we can show the videos to investigators and members alike. Along with that President Henrie talked about becoming the message. So last transfer it was about how to be swift messengers and then this week we talked about how to become the swift message. Really relates back a lot to we can't teach what we don't practice. This is why the atonement of Christ is so necessary, not only in the lives of those you teach but especially in the lives of missionaries. Without it missionary work would not be possible. It was very inspiring stuff and the focus was really on how to get investigators to church because we have really been struggling with that as a mission fortunately though our finding efforts have increased dramatically. As of last zone conference, we had found 900 new investigators as a zone, this zone conference we had found 1500. So swift messengers motivated the mission a lot. 
  Anyways so we are trying to just get investigators to church now. Unfortunately Elvia the abuelita dropped her date due to her being scared to make the decision. She is scared that her husband will be mad at her. But we are still just trying to work with her and love her. We got one new person on date his name is Jose Chavez he is a really cool kid that loves learning about the gospel and wants to become a better person. He is on date for the 23rd so hopefully it will be a Christmas miracle. 
So Elder Horrocks and I, unfortunately, didn't get a member signed up for us on Thanksgiving so we are planning on going to the Cheesecake factory. We are working hard and are having a good time together.
     Alright, so funny story of the week. We were going up the elevator to our apartment and for some reason, it stopped on the 3rd floor instead of the 4th floor at the end of the day. So we come strolling out of this elevator like were beasts because you know we had just taught the gospel and were spitting some serious fire... in Spanish. Well we didn't realize that we were on the third floor so Elder Horrocks just strolls into this apartment that would have been ours if we were on the 4th floor. But, we weren't so he walks in looks up and is like, "wow! that's a different looking table." Then he turns his head and sees three black guys sitting on the couch just staring at him smoking weed. He just says, "Umm sorry." And then slams the door behind him runs up the stairs and tells me to follow him. Let's just say I didn't stop laughing until we were making dinner. Oh and not sure if you knew this but Weed is a huge thing here the entire complex reeks of it almost every night on the weekends and its legal so there's nothing you can do about it. 
  Love you all and hope that you have a good Thanksgiving tell Grandma and Grandpa and the rest of the family Hi for me and that I love them. Con Amor.
Elder Gibbons

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Zone Conference 11/16/2017

President Henrie teaching

That is finger licking good...

San Fernando Zone



Monday, November 13, 2017

Week 7 - Van Nuys - 11/13/2017


Hola Familia
   Wow Elder Horrocks was impressed that mom had already contacted his mom. The lunch sounded fun thats awesome that you got to meet their moms. I don't get to see either of them very much because I think they are both in the other Valley. Well Elder Horrocks is a cool guy but it still takes some adjusting to when you get a new companion. He is from centerville and lives like 5 minutes away from lagoon likes football and basketball and had a mohawk/ mullet before the mission. We definitely do a good job of teaching together and love to try and find new ways to teach together.
    I'm super pumped that you got to facetime Elder Lytle he's a good guy and was a really good trainer, and yes his spanish was amazing. So me and Elder Horrocks are really learning together because he's only got 8 months in the field I have 3 and the other companionship has 4 months and like 6 days. Elder Garcia is the new greenie in the apartment he's from Houston Texas and is fluent so he's really not a greenie but at the same time he is. So our whole apartment is learning together.
   So some cool things that happened this week we handed off one of our baptismal dates to the English Elders and they got him to come to church so hopefully he will get baptized and start attending church full time his name is Andrew and he's about 12 years old. Elvia is still on date but still struggles to read the Book of Mormon, but when we had dinner with her family thats all members we read with her and showed her how it only took like a couple of minutes to read. So therefore we can make a couple of minutes for God a day. It's really just the simplest things that people struggle with that stops them from entering the straight and narrow path. Eric is also still on date but his obstacle right now is reading and coming to church so we're going to try pretty hard this week to get him to do those things. Also we got to meet with Samuel again who is a young kid who reads and prays but can't come to church because of his family and he is basically on his own. So in order to meet with him we have to meet him on the corner of a block because he said that his family would not like it if we came to his house. So this faithful 15 year old who doesn't have very much and his parents don't want him to read or take lessons is still doing the simple things that all of these other investigators aren't. I love that kid so much and wan't him to get baptized so hopefully there is a way we can get him to church or meet with his family. But thats about all for Baptismal dates.
    Alright so I'm not to cold down here but it is getting a little chilly. I wore my jacket for the first time yesterday because it got pretty chilly at night. Even though its like 80 degrees during the day, once the sun goes down it drops to like 70 or below and then the wind kinda starts to blow. But other than that its alright. Well we got about 10 new investigators this week most of which we haven't been able to get back in contact with. But the work is good there is always somewhere new to knock everyday because of how many apartment complexes there are, and the people are more loving than anyone. I'm not sure if this is racist but I really have not come to like white people here they are very rude and usually don't mind saying what they think and then closing the door in your face.
    Somethings i've learned is that if there is a pair of shoes hanging from the telephone wires in an apartment complex it means that there is a drug dealer there and that you can find drugs there. That was pretty surprising to me because I just thought people would throw shoes up there for fun, but it kinda makes sense now. California sunsets are awesome I took a few pictures of it to show you guys. There is a certain way you DO NOT knock on a Hispanics house because it means something really bad. Alright I love you all so much hope you have a good week. I tried Elote for the first time its pretty good not sure if they had it in your missions or not but let me know if you've tried it.
Con amor
Elder Gibbons