Things are going good ’round these parts.

To start, we’ve done a lot of service this week! The Lewisville Elders needed help cutting down a tree. Bad news, were not allowed to use power tools…So we picked up a members hatchet and pick-ax and took turns going at it! It did done tucker us out real quick! I question how an ax is any more safe than an electric saw…but I trust President’s decisions haha

I love how this mission is ran! It really is ran like home. “I’m going to teach you how to be a good missionary, but not going to force you to do it. You’re old enough to govern yourselves.” The music is up to our discretion, clothing is our decision – even though he strongly suggests things. But then there are certain rules made because missionaries have abused the freedom they had. Example: Elder Reed tore every ligament in his ankle a couple months ago, therefore, in the next Zone Conference we were told we can no longer jump on trampolines. Thanks Elder Reed! haha just kidding.

This week I was eating some Ice cream while Elder Reed was in the bathroom. When he came out and saw me eating my ice cream, he went to grab his – but it wasn’t in the freezer…He started searching for it, clearly he thought I hid it. So I started looking with him! Where in the world could a container of Ice cream go? We ended up checking bathroom cupboards, in our closet, in desks…the weirdest places ever. Eventually I found it in the microwave and said, “I found it!” to his reply, “Of COURSE you did! GIMME that.” And walked away…I looked at him confused and he realized, “Oh…You didn’t take it?” He had heated it up a little earlier that day. We had a good laugh.

We have a list of about 20 names on our board we try to see every week. Some of them are more difficult than others, but we spend a great deal with retention, Reactivation, and such.

Some days are just like this last Thursday, and others are just like this last Saturday. You’ll see what I mean. Thursday we has some misunderstandings (which were worked out) but that were very draining. lucky for us, we had the Zone Leaders on exchange starting that afternoon. Elder Gregory (ZL) and I stayed in my area. We visited some Elderly people and tried by a bunch of others that weren’t home. We had dinner scheduled with the Townley Family at the Rays home (Ward Mission Leader). We have been looking forward to this night for weeks. We were going to commit the whole family to baptism – they are ready. We ate dinner and Bro Townley got a call from his wife saying that she needed him to go pick her up from work, therefore we weren’t able to share a lesson. I was just completely finished with this day. And we had an hour left because Bro T. just got up and left. Good news (in a twisted way) is that he messed up his hand and is off work for 2 weeks, meaning that we should be able to meet with him again soon. We also taught Bill (Moms FB friend) lesson 1 and it went pretty well. Hes very open about things and will listen to us.

Saturday, We got a less active member to the ward picnic and the ward took her in and really made her feel wanted. We also played ultimate frisbee and it was awesome! I also had a kid come up to me and tell me that I was his favorite Elder. That was really nice! Anndddd we got ALL of the leftover hamburgers and hotdogs from the picnic! wahoo!

Well Chillins, I love all y’all!

Hope to hear from y’all soon :]

Elder Householder