Elder Brandon Pingel

NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA MISSION

Mission Update: July 15, 2026

Happy P day yall

Wednesday P day today because we get to go to the temple today so it messed up the schedule for the week. 
This last week was great, been quite eventful. Last Monday night we finally went to the pier at sunset which I've been itching to do and that's where we found my boy Jae. Over the last week he attended like 8 church activities/lessons and more counting. We invited him to be baptized on the 2nd and he said yes! He is so open to the gospel it is amazing. 
Afterwards at the pier we probably ran into 60 members. And that's not even an exaggeration. We kept getting stopped, even while teaching Jae. We got some free donuts though which was nice. And a couple teen members stopped us for a recorded interview which was quite odd. 
Other than that it was still a great week, my trainer was telling me how the most friends he's made in a day was 6 and I told him eventually we would need to try and beat it. Needless to say, that same day we made 7 friends so I call that a win. 
Not much to report other than that, weather is as great as it gets and I met Ronald Regan. Rather his statue, which was by the cult of bunnies, which is in my Google photos album. 
700 days left as of today which is crazy thinking about. 
Kind of a short and boring email but oh well, have a good week yall!
-Elder Pingel 
(Google photos album if you haven't already joined)