Earth Quake

ok so i have forgotten a HUGE detail that happened last friday! dang i dont know how i for got to tell you on monday but here it is. so friday morning at 9:45 am we, as a mission, had the opportunity to go hear and shank the hand of an apostle of the lord. you will never guess who's hand i got to shake. Elder Jeffrey R Holland, he came to our mission and gave us a special fireside and talked about missionary work and how we are guaranteed one convert on our mission; which is us. we are suppose to be converted to this gospel and stay in this gospel FOREVER! he laided down the law and the spirit was so strong. the whole time i had the chills running up and down my back for the next 2 hours that he was with us. it is one experience that has changed my life forever. when i shook my hand he told me something, i was so excited to be there but i cant remember what he told me. it happened so fast. but he did say, that out of the 30 years of touring missions, our mission, MY mission has been the most reverent when waiting to shake his hand. it was amazing.

and has i had heard from last week, i was transfered out to the desert again... but this time i am out in brawley, with a dodge mini van. haha we get to work the outside areas of brawley, the little baby towns. it is pretty sweet haha. i am white washing, or in other words opening up an area, so i have 0 people to work with, only a ward list, so i have to do all the work. my companion is Elder Simmonds from Canada. this is his 2nd transfer, and i am his 2nd companion, he is pretty cool but he still has a lot of work cut out for him. and i have a lot of work cut out for me. at transfers, president told me that he expects me to turn this spanish branch into a ward. so it is pretty crazy. hopefully we will be successful in our new task that lies before us. oh and to make it even better is that we dont even have a cell phone to keep in touch with anyone, and probably wont have one for one more week. hahaha it is just new experiences all the time. which reminds me about the earthquake :-D so we had just gotten out of conference and we were on our way back to our apartment, we were about a block away sitting at a stop light, and all of a sudden the car just starts shaking, i look in the mirrors to see if anyone is there to see if there was anyone shaking the car, and no one was there. so i start looking around and the whole city was shaking, windows were shaking people were running out of the buildings and it felt like we were out on the ocean in a boat. it was the most awesome feeling ever. it lasted almost a full minute and what not. it was pretty sweet. but that is about all the good news i have for you today. i probably wont have my camera for a while since we only get mail 2 or 3 times a transfer. so yeah i will get it eventually. i am glad that you are enjoying my pictures. you will have to let me know which was are your favorites :-D love you all and will talk with you soon. ~ELDER GARDNER