Week four of the transfer is always the longest. But this one went really fast! On Tuesday it rained! Whoopee! It never rains here. We also took that day to explore our area a bit more. In driving around we found a really cool nature park down one of the canyons! We took pictures with a grizzly bear and gave them our phone number in case they ever needed help with stuff, and then continued exploring. We found some really cool places that we wanted to go back to and knock on some doors. Wednesday night, I was looking at the map of our area again along with my map on my iPad, and I realized we had spent a couple hours exploring the Irvine Mission! Not our mission. So that was really awkward and disappointing. Then on Thursday we went on exchanges. They lasted a little longer than usual, but they went really well. We inspected a few apartments. For some reason it all just went super fast. Time just disappears. We got to go to the temple this week because there was a temple tour and we had some people coming that we were teaching! Then they didn't show up, so we were just kind of there. So that's what the one picture is of! 

Here is something I found recently that I'd like to share with y'all.

"How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life as if to say, "Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!"

-Neal A. Maxwell

As much as we dislike them, trials are part of life. God doesn't always necessarily give us trials as much as he allows us to have trials. I can't imagine that a God that loves us would take away from us opportunities that allow us to grow and become something more than we are. Sometimes we feel like what we are going through is unfair. Sometimes it seems like what other people are going through is unfair. Fortunately, God loves us enough to allow us to struggle. I'm so grateful to have a perfect Father in Heaven that knows what is best for me. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

1. Kuehne and I at the temple.

2-3 Me and a grizzly.

4-. more pictures of ward activity and missionary haku