What happens when you Move to California!

OK so it has been awhile since I posted here but I found a day to actually blog for a moment. A lot has happened since we last spoke. I was living at a hotel on base for awhile and awaiting my new apt, car and overall life. I was able to find a new car and get the financial and legal things cleared with it. I am now a new owner of a 2010 Toyota Corolla LE.

This took a lot of patience, time and resources to happen but in the end I was able to over come it and have this wonderful vehicle. The next thing is I finally found a new home for me to live in. It is in the city called Rocklin and I already love this little area and my apartment is a 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom apartment of 950 square feet. Not huge but works perfect for me. I put a 9 month lease on it in case I can find roommates down the road and can find something cheaper but for now this will do. One thing I have learned is that it is so important for us to save and prepare for tomorrow because of all the money I have saved when I was in Belgium as no kidding paid off. Because of all the financial en devours I dealt with my savings haves in all reality paid off! I thank the lord for helping me to be a better person in finance and budgeting. 

Some fun pics of my house, mind you I am still sorting all my stuff out and it looks better now and today I get my furniture! So this is not the way I live lol :)

 

Another fun story was I went to this regional YSA activity for the church where we had a mud obstacle course and a color war which was loads of fun! Even better I ran into one of the missionaries I meet in the Netherlands there and we did it together which was so nice because I did not know anyone there. It is interesting the small church world we live in. 

His name is Elder Ryan Leash and the handsome gentle men to your left is me :)

Any who also I got to meet some neat people from Davis area at the Roseville dance that we had awhile ago. This gal here invited me to a fun hiking trip with her church at Lake Berryessa. So much fun and overall so much beauty :) 

 

Then last an final I got to go to the Sacramento Temple. Such a beautiful and peaceful places to be at.  I forget so much how much beauty and wonder that goes on in the house of the lord. Makes me realizes how much I need to continue this service, especially since it is so close to me know! I hope to go as often as possible and continue do the lords work in his house. 

Right now I just feel truly blessed since I have returned state side. I have found friends, new peace, and also challenges that not hurt me but improve me. I was listening to a song and it said that trials do not define us but they refine us. I know I have a lot of trials ahead of me and some will be harder then others BUT I know this that Heavenly Father has a plan for us, he is here for us and that we are not alone because we have our savior. I hope an pray that all of us are doing well and that in time of our struggles and burdens that if we can not find the strength to stand, that we go to our knees and pray for the strength to stand again. Also one thing to share last week I had a inspiring moment when I got to teach in Elder's Quorum I got to teach on Elder Richard G. Scott talk on  revelation and inspiration in our lives. It was amazing cause it taught and shown me the ways I can receive these for my own personal life. It was hard also to be willing to share a story about a friend of mine who had passed away a year ago and how it was hard for me to know I didn't listen to the inspiration to share with him the gospel. I felt though the holy ghost testify that I should share and explain that Jesus forgave me and gave me a blessed opportunity to speak with his girl friend who is also the mother of his child. I got to share the Book of Mormon with her and give a picture of Jesus Christ, to show to her that the savior is here for her and that there is a plan for them to see each other again. I know that these things are true and I am blessed cause of it. I hope you enjoyed my fun and crazy stories hopefully I can keep up to date better with my blog! For now take care brothers and sisters and may God be with you till we meet again! Love you all!!

Welcome to Beale AFB, MOOOO....

Well I made it here finally, it took 17 hours and several minutes but I made it. I am right now staying at the hotel on base and it isn't a bad room but not great either. I met my sponsor and she was super awesome and nice. She has been helpful getting me set up and helping my succeed so to me that is a plus. Right now I am in-processing the base (for you none military folks, it just means they are getting me set up here at the base.) and so far they are unsure where to put me. I will hopefully know where I will be working and hope that it isn't something to hard for me but what ever the challenge I will take it on full. So I want to give you all a picture of what it is like staying here at Beale AFB and what the base looks like.

Beale AFB


It is no joke also, that is the lay out of the base. When I was told it was spread out, they were not joking. I mean it is much bigger them my last area but for reals it is the country but honestly I love it and can't stop smiling on how happy I am to be here. Because really I feel the lord has blessed me with being at this new area :).

This weekend was a lot of fun because I got to hang with my good old buddy Travis! We go went to eat at olive garden, then stay at Travis AFB and watch a hilarious movie called Cabin in the Woods. I laughed really hard at that movie, "I never do." Watch the movie and you will get what I am talking about. Then we got to hang out in good old San Fran and that was just a lot fun, especially cause I got to see my other friend Amelia.



Right now I am not working just yet because it means I am house hunting and car hunting as well. So far my success on that is 0 %. But hey I am going to stay strong, right now I have been looking in the Lincoln area and sadly only have one option there because of the income restrictions. Which means I am just a little over the income to be accepted there sooo that means looking at other areas. I don't like looking at the other places because it means either to far and slightly expensive or I choose the ones near me, and now I am far from the church I would like to attend to. So right now I am at a lost, and feel like I will have to make some sacrifices. Hopefully the lord will keep strong regardless of where I live.

I went on a nice drive today in the area and realize how neat it is living in the country though as well and makes me kinda like here but feel I need to for once live closer to the YSA community. I went yesterday for the first time to a YSA scripture night. We had a good chat and read in 4 Nephi 1 & Mormon 1. It 4 Nephi Chpt 1 it discuss of the time when Christ came to visit them all and help establish peace to the area. Then Years (200 years or so) later they began to dwindle in unbelief and begin to reject the gospel. It is sad to think that sometimes it is so easy for us to forget and also for us to continue to teach about Christ to our younger generation. Not only that but overall how we as humans so easily forget about the savior. I was glad to hear that lesson because it teaches me that through those busy moment in my life I need to not forget him and to remember he will always be there with us, as long as we allow him to be in our life.

Well that is all I have for now and hopefully next entry I will be able to give you an update of my new car and new apartment. I love you all and pray that God be with you always.

Funny Videos

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I thought I share this with you all. This ia how my welcoming party will be with Travis Dunn!

Goodbye is really another way of saying "See you later!"

OK here I go with this. I had tried earlier in the year to create a blog for P90X and failed horribly. So I decided to transform it in to my personal journal entry and also got inspired by some of my friends blogs. Let me just tell you a little bit about myself. I am Andrew Cumbie 26 years old and right now living in Belgium but will soon be moving to California. I have been living here for the past 2 years and have had much joy being in this country and seeing this part of the world. Hopefully down the road I can post some pictures of places I went to and give some description of the areas I saw.

Today was my last Sunday at the Heerlen Military ward in the Netherlands. If you are thinking (is he in a mental ward for the military?) you would be very wrong. It is a church that I attend out here and it is the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. You may be thinking (isn't that the religion that has multiple wives?) sorry people but no it isn't Big Love. It is a church that believes in having Prophets on this earth today, that the gospel has been restored on this earth and that the Lord's church is here on the earth again. To learn more about our faith I highly recommend visiting our websites to learn more: www.LDS.org & Mormon.org.

Now to the juicy stuff. As I have told you earlier I have spent two years living in this foreign land and getting some experience living overseas. I actually leave this coming Friday to my next destination in California. It is crazy to me that 2 years have passed by already and that I am already moving again. It saddens me to think I am leaving once again,  because I will miss the friends I have made here.  I guess it is something I have to get use to when living the military life. I have been in the military for now about 5.5 years and so far have enjoyed this career, so far..

I was asked in our Elder's Quorum to speak briefly with them and say a few words. All I could tell them are a few scriptures and the importance of serving our Lord in Heaven. I shared with them a scripture that was giving to me from a friend of mine in Ohio. It was Alma 26:27 "Now when our hearts were depressed, and we were about to turn back, behold, the lord comforted us, and said: Go amongst thy brethren, the Lamanites (Californians), and bear with patience thing afflictions, and I will give unto you success." You may have noticed I wrote in parentheses Californians because in someways the lord wants us to know that we may be sad to leave but we must be of good cheer because there is more work to come. I believe that work aka service will be at my next area and I hope to have as much success or more with the lord in this area, like I did in Heerlen. 

That is all I have for you now, I hope too in the near future have many more entries for you to read. That you may get something from it or at least be entertained by my writing skills. Anyway goodnight and I pray that God will always be with you!