Return to California

The man of the hour. My best friend in the mission Elder Peralta. We served around each other fro 3 months in Santa Maria, 6 weeks in oxnard and 3 more months in So Bakes. I love him to death.
Elder Barney. He served in taft and i would visit them about once a week to speak to all the people that they couldnt.
This was after st. george and before cedar city i think.

The drop!
We stopped along the way and wrode the rollercoaster and ate at the buffet. it was freaking fast and awesome. 230+ ft freefall and 90 mph :)
Random pic but oh so good. I dont remember taking it but dang that is so cool lookin.
Us at toppers pizza! BBQ pizza

This is elder Tatua. he is going home in a few weeks to tonga. He taught our zone the hawka and we did it for the christmas conferance infront of everyone :)
We switched about every 300 miles or so.

This was the last spot on ventura soil that i stood as Elder Augason. I got a bit teary eyed standing there again. It was a good sight to see.
On the way back home.

Well we took off and once we hit barstow we did what tradition has it. Broke down. lost the master cylinder in my transmission. Lamans terms that means no clutch so i had to shift with out it. Which it worked but on labor day weekend at 5:30 pm who is going to fix my truck. Well if you pay them enough they will get the job done. 700 bucks and 3.78 hours later we were on the road. Saw Hermana Madrigal from my last area and then took off on saturday for the coast. We shoppedin San Luis Obispo for about 1 hr then took off for the beach. We changed in the truck to the swimsuits and ran down to the beach. Tried to surf but got beat up pretty bad, but it was sooooo much fun. BTW we went to pismo beach. Then at 6pm we met up with members and we showered the salt water off and then went out to eat at a chinese restauraunt. Then we tried to watch movies but we were so beat from driving and swimming that we could not stay awake. It was very weird sleeping and showering in daves house. Sunday we made the suprise visit to the branch and had a good time. Then we went back to the beach. Nothing new cept that we went further out and swam with a sea lion and this time dave let us borrow his boogey board which was a blast. So we both got thrown around like rag dolls. The waves were crashin over the top of my head and it was really tough to get out to the waves, LOL. Monday we m et up with Elder Peralta and his companion in ventura and took them out to eat at toppers pizza. it was good. I talked with an old companion for like 5 min on the phone and the pizza was gone. WOW. It was so nice to see my mexican :) We laughed and cried and said goodbye again. But its ok cause i am going to mexico next year for like 9 days LOL We ate at In n Out twice once in cali and once in st. george 10 pm monday nite and then we rolled into the driveway at 3am tuesday morning. WOW it was a rough day but we made it safe. Enjoy