I remember the drive up to Payson, Arizona each year for our Fathers and Sons outing. The boys would stay up all night so that we could sleep on the EXTREMELY long 2 hour car ride. I remember our car rides up to Utah each summer to spend time with family. Mom stuffed the BMW (Big Mormon Wagon) with lots of snacks and Dad would hook up the Nintendo 64/Gamecube to keep us occupied.

What happened to time? Why has it become so fast? and why are car
rides different then when we were kids?

Before I go on, Ill share a couple sweet experiences that happened
before the car rides:

This week we were blessed to have interviews with President Ames.
Elder Judy and I were in charge of the scheduling of when missionaries get training (and train them), and when they will be interviewed. Its always difficult to figure out the best schedule because President loves his time with the missionaries and it usually goes over, so adding it all up, it can go hours over! I was talking to some other missionaries who did their scheduling with their zones and they said it went over about 3-4 hours! So we sat down and brainstormed how to train all 3 districts and get them interviewed in a timely manner.

Interviews were great! President is so understanding and gives
everyone the benefit of the doubt and trusts us so much. We finished everything 10-15 min late! President was a little tensed until he realized we had ended when planned. It was awesome! Ill take a snapshot of how it all worked.

Tuesday night we went with a member to the Stake center to do some rescue visits to less active members. NOBODY showed up! Not even the stake president, ward mission leaders or ward missionaries. just 2 members and 2 sets of missionaries. President forgot his flash drive at the church during interviews so he asked us to bring it to him. He was having dinner with a senior couple in the zone and planned to have 2 lessons there. We knocked on the door and they let us in. Their appointments both canceled as well! Tis missionary work….. But they sat us down and gave us some Bluebell! It finally came back on shelf after 7-8 months! And we were with President Ames in a casual atmosphere. It was a way cool unintended experience.

Car ride time!! ⬇️

Elder Moss, our mission vehicle coordinator called us up and said that we need to bring our minivan and 2 other cars from our zone up to Mission Leadership Council this week to trade them in. He needed them in at 3pm thursday, but our meeting was Friday morning…So since it was a 2.5 hour drive, we spent thursday afternoon in the mission office doing our weekly planning.

While we were there with the Killeen Zoneleaders and our Sister
Training Leaders (who also come from the south like us and brought the other 2 cars up), Elder Childs fell asleep on the ground. President
Ames walked in to say goodbye and walked around him to shake our
hands. When President was on his way out, Elder Childs woke up and jumped to his feet and mumbled, “Oh, no, no, Im not asleep…” And we just laughed! After President left, Elder Childs looked at us and said, “Come on! Warn a Brotha!” hahaha Then Elder Argyle showed him a picture we took with him sleeping and with President!

That night we split up and went proselyting with some other
missionaries in the Colleyville Zone. Elder Argyle and I were assigned to go on exchange in GRAPEVINE! That meant I went back to my old area with my last companion Elder Petersen and a past companion Elder Case! It was a blast! We went and saw people I taught and had a dandy old time.

MLC was awesome! So insightful on how to best work with Ward Mission Leaders and Ward Councils better. It is always so powerful!

We went Friday morning to play Ultimate Football with the APs, Killeen Zone Leaders, and Euless Elders!

Yesterday we had Wesley, Christina, and Gina come to church!

Christina is on her way! She is so ready! Just a couple more lessons left.

Gina is understanding more and said she will be baptized when she
knows its right!

Wesley has a plan to keep the Word of Wisdom!

I bought 2 nice pairs of shoes at a thrift store for 4 bucks!

Stay true to the faith. I want yall to think about what the one
calamity it is talking about in this scripture. If you remind me, Ill
tell you what it is next week :]

Love you to death!

Elder Householder