Hey Everyone!

This week has been pretty good! Freakishly HOT, but good! For the record, I’d take an Arizonan summer over a Texas one ANY day. haha the humidity helps me be able to swim without being apostate!

This week we had Zone Conference! It was awesome. President talked to us about finding more people to teach. We did some roleplays, etc. During the conference, we were told that we should print off our family fanchart off of FamilySearch and laminate it to show people on the streets! So we did that the next day!

So Bobby got some subbs (basses) for his truck this week. Now let me paint you a picture: You’re stopped at a light and you see a black truck pull up bases pounding (you could hear them down the street). The windows roll down and you see the missionaries in the passenger seats with music blaring…MoTab! “THE IRON ROD IS THE WORD OF GOD!” Hahah It was soooo funny! The organ came out in the bass pretty well.

This week we also went to go see Flora and we were teaching lesson one over again. We were talking about Prophets and she cut us off and asked us a question (That made it sound like she was going to try to trip us up in our answer…) “SO WHY DO YOU THINK PEOPLE BACK THEN LIVED THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF YEARS BUT WE ONLY LIVE 3 SCORE YEARS?” (First off, people back then only lived hundreds of years…) so we gave our best answer! “Well maybe God had a different role for them than us! In that time, a main commandment was to multiply and replenish the earth. Today, theres many people on the earth.” (Just gave it a shot.) and Flora says, “LISTEN HERE…I ASKED A DIRECT QUESTION AND I EXPECT A DIRECT ANSWER! DONT GIVE ME WHAT YOU THINK!” So then we told her, “Well we dont know the answer Flora…” And she then relaxed immediately and said, “Oh…Okay, move on!” hahah “IF YOU DONT KNOW THE ANSWER, JUST SAY YOU DONT KNOW THE ANSWER!” Oh goodness…

So we were helping someone move, and bishop was trying to move a dresser out of a room, but it wasnt going to go out without taking the door off. So I told Bishop I knew how to take a door off! But then I realized WHY I knew how to…To try to get the master key bobby locked in a room at the church! Haha and…but I wasnt exactly gonna mention that haha Oops…

On Saturday we taught Shelby half of Lesson 5 which talked about induring to the end and such. But we also wanted to stress the importance of getting a patriarchal blessing. After talking about it and explaining why its so important, she called bishop to ask for an interview! So she spoke with bishop yesterday!

Yesterday we were helping Bobby prepare the sacrament because the rest of the young men were on a boy scout camp in new mexico. When pulling out the bread Bobby asked, “When did this expire?…” (looking for the label) and I laughed hard because id figure the question should be, “Has this expired yet?” You know you have it bad when you ask that question…hahah

We got Claude to come to church! He was once a gangbanger and he was talking about it in sunday school and asked, “Is it just me, or does it seem that bad things happen the closer to try to get to God?” He was looking around the room because he literally thought he was the only one to think that. Then we all chimed in and agreed. There was actually a new convert that chimed in and shared some similar experiences as Claude did, and I could tell they were both almost in tears because they both could relate about relatives dying “In action”. It was really cool.

In Ward Choir we’re singing, “From Cumorah’s Hill”! It sounds terrible, but Its fun to sing along to a childhood favorite!

Last night we taught Shelby the other half of Lesson 5 which included Missionary work, Service, and Eternal Marriage. After the lesson, we were trying to figure out how we were going to fit the “New member lessons” in before she heads to college in a month, so I said, “I propose…” And then Sister Eldredge jumped in and said, “You’re Proposing?!” (RIGHT after talking about Eternal Marriage…) Leave it to phunny Sister Eldredge!

Well I love all Yall! Hope to hear from ya!

Pictures include the night before Elder Austin left. We were all sad.

Elder Householder