Where are you?

Well, I am in the North Hollywood ward. It is pretty great so far, I miss Newhall, but that is ok it is going to be great. My address is 7651 Laurel Canyon, North Hollywood, CA 91605 It is nice that we also play basketball with some less actives and nonmembers every week. So yeah,it is bloody hot here. I am sweating the weight off. Oh, another cool thing about our area is we do splits with missionaries who are not in our mission. We have so many Armenian people in our area and we do not have Armenian missionaries so the ones from the Arcadia mission got permission to come and work with us once a week. That is really cool, it is still in our area but with missionaries not in the mission.

Who is your new companion?

My companion is Elder Hui. He is Honkenes (from Hong Kong) so that is pretty awesome. We do language study every morning. He speaks English; we are now working on pronunciation. Also, I am learning a little Cantonese. I am the senior companion, not that that matters, it’s just sad because I broke my run of no leadership, sad day, haha. So it is going to be fun and as my saying is now, “Here goes something,” because we are missionaries and we are always doing something! So we can't say, “Here goes nothing,” because it has to always be something or it is a waste of our time and the Lords time.

Tell me a little more about the pictures you sent last week-

The family is the Sirias family, they are members, well the son-in-law is not, but hopefully sooner or later he will. They love missionaries and they are the best people. They just make you feel like you are home, also Sister Sirias moms the missionaries. Bear and Mario are members and they were less active for like 20 years but are now fully active and some of the most wonderful people ever. Bear is one of the most missionary minded members I have ever found. He has a heart the size of him. I know that I will go back and visit that ward. But for now I have a different ward to love and help.

What did you do for the 4th?

We had zone training in the morning and then went out to lunch with another set of elders and then walked and talked to people and went in to our house for dinner at 7 and then unpacked and talked. so yeah very festive. our area sounded like a war zone. so that was interesting.

Did you get your packages?

I got Mish's but not yours, not yet anyways.

Jaron is a dad!?......... Well that is odd but still kinda scary. so yeah :) Congratulations!

1 John 1:5 “5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” This is what we share and this is what draws people to the Gospel Love you have a good week.

Love Elder Hyde