My new area is awesome. We have lots of good things happening.  We committed our investigator to live the word of wisdom, and she came to church yesterday and loved it. One of the members of the ward is a professional race truck driver. He lives clear up on the mountain, and has an AMAZING view from his house of the ocean and all of Carpenteria. At any rate, he races the Baja 1000, which is the race that the movie 'Dust to Glory' is about, I think! He and his daughter race it every year, and they’ve won it 6x.  Anyway, we did some service for him, because his retaining wall collapsed with the rain we got last week.  Oh it was so great!  I got to just work a shovel and carry huge stone blocks, rebuilding it for a few hours.  I got a huge blister in the middle of my palm from shoveling without gloves.  It hurts so good.  I’ve never been happier, just sweating in the hot sun digging and doing real work.  Haha.   Then, that night we had a lesson with an investigator up at an avocado ranch, where he taught us how to pick avocados with the 20 foot pole and shears. It’s harder than it looks, but we got a whole trunk full that we have been passing out to investigators.  Yesterday, we traded a bag of 6 avocados for 2 huge boxes of oranges, lemons, and mandarins-- not a bad trade, fruit for days. The mountains up here are pretty cool with their view of the ocean and all the agriculture.  (Anything and everything will grow all year long here.) The only bad thing is no deer.  I mean, you couldn’t pay me to live in California, but if you could...It’d definitely be here.