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The Last week with President Clark

The last few weeks before President Clark is gone are packed with great experiences. We had a temple trip this last week. A lot of the Tulare ward was there because Griffin Yentes was getting his endowment before he takes off on his mission. We are getting Olga prepared for her baptism. We are excited for that.

We had a really good lesson with the Raes. They haven't come to church for a while, but they are both reading the Book of Mormon really well. They haven't accepted a baptismal date yet.

I went on a really good exchange with Elder James. We had some good conversations about setting goals that help us to stretch. That is one of the biggest reasons that we have goals.

Elder Millburn went to Porterville and I was able to be reunited with the Tripanionship. Elder Wright and Elder Woodmansee and I taught a lot of powerful lessons.

We gave about 5 blessings this week. It was a spiritually powerful week.

Our finding has kind of been slower than we would like it to be, but we are reemphasizing planning at night to find better.

We went to Yosemite today with Brother Baladad. He is awesome. We hiked up to Vernal Falls.

Sister Barragan finally was able to obtain her temple recommend. We are excited for her. Shaundra should be able to go to the temple soon.

The Tates have been coming to church. We helped them move their stuff for a little bit. 

We had Keith and Jim at church this week. Olga had to go to the hospital the night before. We gave her a blessing. She was healthy by the next day.

We also had a good lesson with Brett this week. 

We have Zone conference and MLC this week. It should be great.

Elder Keeley

Temple Trip July 2017 Merced

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Yosemite trip #2

Elder Millburn and I went to Yosemite with Brother Baladad. We hiked up to Vernal falls and got soaked. It was super fun.

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Baptism of Eva, Morgan, Skyler, and Eugene. Last interview with President Clark.

I had a super Good week this week highlighted by the baptism of Eva, Morgan, Skyler, and Eugene.

It was fantastic. Keith came, and so did a lot of other non members and investigators. I baptized Eugene and Skyler, and then confirmed Morgan the next day.

It is going to be a very hot week.

We had our last interview with President and Sister Clark. We played a jeopardy game while we waited.

We had Brett come to church for the first time this week. We haven't been able to teach him for a little while because he is in the Marines. 

We also had Keith Come again. We got him a white Shirt, and a pair of Pants. He came to the baptism as well, but he still doesn't have a place to live, so we can't baptize him yet.

Olga went to church in The Bay area. She will be baptized soon.

I gave Elder Millburn a haircut.

Love,

Elder Keeley

6/19/17 Baptism! Eva, Skyler, Eugene, Morgan

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Elder Millburn

Elder Millburn is my new companion. It was a pretty good week. We will baptize Eva and her family, along with Eugene this weekend. 

We also had Jim come to church this week, and we found Gracie's records.

All of the new missionaries that came into the Zone are awesome.

Here is the Testimony that I sent to President Clark for our final interview with him.

The Things that I know to be true by the power of the Holy Ghost:

One of the First things that I know are true is that God lives. He is my Heavenly Father and he loves me. He sent his Son Jesus Christ to be my Savior. Thr Scriptural accounts of Christ and his teaching and Sacrifice are real and True. He suffered and Died for me.

I know that God answers prayers. He communicates with us in many ways, but espescially through the Holy Ghost.

After Study and Prayer I came to have a strong Testimony that the Book of Mormon is true, and that this is the True Church. I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet, and that Thomas S. monson is a prophet today. I know that Jesus Christ's Gospel has been restored, and that it is real and true. It works. We can change and be forgiven and healed.

I know that as we follow Jesus Christ we will have lasting peace and Joy. I know that God keeps his word. I know that God knows me personally. I know that the plan of Salvation is real. I testify of these things in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.

The work is good. 

We'll baptize this week, and that's good.

Love,

Elder Keeley

Elder Millburn picture of

He got his Eyebrows threaded today.
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This is part of the zone​

Forever Hmong

Or Maybe not. We are getting a set of Hmong Missionaries, so I will not be covering the Hmong branch henceforth. I left it better than I found it so it's all good.

This week Elder Gray left to Fresno on Monday to be an assistant. I joined up with Elder Chadwin Wright and Elder Woodmansee for the week. It was super fun, and fairly productive.

On Monday we had the Last Zone Meeting ever in the California Fresno Mission. We trained on being bold in inviting others to be baptized, and in finding. We also talked about not falling in despair.

After that I said goodbye to Elder Gray and went to Brother Fife's house for Hmong Family Home evening while Elder Wright and Woodmansee used the truck.

I was picked up the Hamptons and we taught Gracie. She is a super solid recent convert.

On Tuesday we 

On Wednesday I went on a team up with Brother Atkinson. he dropped me off at President Smith's house. Then Brother Smith took me to the church and I went off with Brother Lavato and we taught Sister Cannon and Eva's family.
I set a new personal record for investigators at Sacrament meeting this week with 8. We had Eva and her family, Olga, Keith, and Jim. Kenny and Benny came to the Hmong Branch.

Keith is doing pretty well. He currently is looking for a place to live, and he wants to turn his life around by making things right with God. He has come to church twice in a row, and reads the Book of Mormon every day. he also prays every day and keeps any other commitment that we give him. he has a baptism date for later in June.

Being in a tripanionship is really fun because if we all feel pushed to perform.

Brother Alonzo (Lacey's dad) gave us two fancy ties this week, but since their are three of us we made a ping pong tournament to see who got them. I got a nice red one with second place.

On Friday we left Elder Woodmansee in Merced and Elder Wright and I drove down to Fresno to get the mail. Afterwards we ate Egg rolls with Sister Balls and Sister Troseth, May, Fey and Benny and Kenny at Fey Saelee's house. They are super smart and super cool, but still haven't gotten the green light to be baptized. After all of the egg rolls and banana rolls we went and ate dinner in Atwater with Aiya Le and her family.

On Saturday we went to Planada to try and visit all of the less active members. We were walking outside of an apartment complex when a lady called out to us and asked us if we wanted some water. We got some and she told us we could come back in a minute and get some cake. We did. Later in our Planada trip we went to the outskirts of the city of Legrand and found a lady named Alma and her Husband Christian. Alma actually came to church last week, but she is not a member. We taught them and they gave us some really good spaghetti. Spaghetti is usually not very good as a missionary, but theirs was really good. Alma and Christian lives with her Sister who is a member.

Then we ate Dinner with Chou and his mother that mostly just speaks Hmong. We had a nice leaf (maybe beet leaves?) in water drink, and the chicken that a women that just had a baby has to eat for 30 days. The mom kept telling us to "eat too much" and get "more power." It motivated me to eat more green vegetables and chicken.

With a tripanionship we had a "literal boatload " of great and sometimes crazy experiences.

I worked a lot on planning specifically for each investigator family. There were a few times where it really worked for them.

Stake Correlation was really good. It was the last one with President Clark.

Olga is doing well. She succesfully quit coffee for a week. She set a baptismal date for July 1st. She will be out of town before then.

Love,

Elder Keeley

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​Elder Woodmansee and Elder Wright outside of Pangs house. That is a dragon fruit tree. Elder Wright is blowing fire.