Hey guys! (See i’m still somewhat Arizonan – don’t worry! Y’alls dont always come out.)
This week has been pretty fantastic overall if I do say so myself!
Tuesday we had a “Zone Training,” which is basically where our whole Zone gets together to learn and share goals. This one was different, however, we shared goals, then split up into our districts for a district meeting. a quick back story: This mission has given us new tools to try on people – one of them offering others “21 Tips for Better Grades” – no strings attached. This is supposed to break the awkward “Im a missionary – heres the gospel” first impression. After explaining some of these tips to them, theyll ask what the name tags are for – etc. Well in this District meeting I was asked to share how these 21 Tips help us missionaries. I found some sweet scriptural backup for the points.
This week we were out tracting a street that happened to be Vietnamese….So we were going to head to a different street when a black lady came outside to smoke – we talked to her and she was excited to have us back! We’ll go wednesday.
We’ve started teaching Teresa, Her 2 kids, and Melinda, her sister this week. They were being taught in Bedford and moved to Arlington with baptismal dates! They are so awesome! They totally understand everything, and the things they dont, they are bold to say they dont understand – I love it. They take NOTES. This blew my mind! Things I learned in primary, adults were anxious to take down on paper! We’ve met with them 3 times this week.
Sandra is moving along great! we see her 3 times a week, loves to come to church, and we’ve gotten over the….difficult lessons, and shes still good to go! we hope to move her baptismal up date to 2 weeks from now! Whoo!!!
This week we helped someone move and I developed a bad cough from the dust….I miss singing 🙁
We also helped Shelby add her testimony and conversion story into FamilySearch.org! Everyone needs to get on there and find some ancestors! Its sooo cool!
A couple funny moments: We were teaching lesson 1 over to Shelby for the new-member lessons and Elder Mansaray was just really tired. We were were talking about the Resurrection, he starts out by saying, “So we all know we are going to die…and decay…” And this freaked Shelby out! Just a little too descriptive there Elder! The next day we were on the phone with our district leader Elder Lewis and finished making some plans Elder L said, “Alright, does that sound good?” and Elder Mansaray said, “Yeah, sounds like a plan” and after they said goodbyes I said, “That’ll do pig! That ‘ll do. Do you know where thats from Elder?” and Elder M replied, “Babe.” Then we hear from the phone, “What?” hahah Elder Lewis hadn’t hung up yet so it sounded like Elder M was still talking to him. Im not sure if that made sense…but it was funny!
Yesterday was way cool! We had Sandra, Teresa, one of her kids, Melinda, and Claude at church! There was a Mission Presidents Fireside last night! Sister Eldredge drove us and piled Bobby, Me, Elder M, Claude, and Brother Kyle into the van. We had a great time. I got to see Elder Austin, Elder Moody, and other missionaries I knew! It was the best thing ever. Bro. Kyle is a lessactive that surprizingly said he’d come! he wont come to church. He acted like he had an ok time, but Sister Eldredge said that she was talking to him and he said, “If this is what Heaven is like, Id go in an instant.” That is insanely awesome to hear! (Youd have to know him)
Well I love all y’all!
Elder Householder
