Dear Family and Friends!

This week has been really great!

Tuesday we went on exchange with the Euless 1st Elders! I had Elder Rarotoga with me in my area. We wanted to work on praying without ceasing. We found a street with a couple potentials on it, parked the car, and walked to each of them. “Door after door after door was slammed in our face! Can you guess what happened next? …. Nothin’!”

Hahaha actually no doors slammed that day, nobody answered! After the last door we knocked, we stopped in their driveway and said a prayer. In the middle of the prayer, the door opened and a lady said, “Hello?” I turned around and started talking to her while Elder Rarotoga finished the prayer! haha. Turns out she babysits for a family in Euless that Elder Rarotoga knew and her deceased mom was LDS. We talked to this guy named Jeremy and he happened to talk about how he hates all this wet heat, “the dry heat is way better” i told him i was from Arizona and he looked at me and held up his arm. There was a full Arizona flag tattoo from his shoulder to his wrist! Hes from Phoenix! He let us back.

We taught a legit lesson to Austin that night too! We taught the Plan
of Salvation and it blew him away. We talked about Adam and Eve and he blurted out, “i am so mad at them for eating that apple! If they didnt do that, we would all be talking face to face with God!” Then we explained 2 Nephi 2 and before we know it, he was saying, “im glad them ate the fruit because we have all this experience out here!”

Someone came by and “discreetly” gave him a bag of weed for his
sister. When he realized what it was, he looked at us and said, “oh
crap!” And ran it inside…not abnormal to see! We tried so hard to
set a baptismal date with him, but he didnt feel worthy (we know he is more than many). We are continuing to help him realize.

We were invited over for dinner with Jessica and Brother Chesney on Wednesday and they told us of an experience they had a previous day. They were going to read out if the scriptures and Brother Chesney allowed Jessica to choose what book of scripture. She chose the Pearl of Great Price. Then he said, “what book?” “Abraham” “What chapter?” “3!” Hahah kolob. They prepared for our lesson by learning about Kolob. Hahaha she actually took great comfort in those verses! We started teaching about the Restoration by defining God. She had questions about what the Holy Ghost was and we spent most of the time helping her understand it. We even used some more Pearl of Great Price scriptures to help explain! (First time ive used that book for nonmembers, especially lesson 1!). Then, there was a request to talk about the Word of Wisdom, so we turned to D&C (first lesson? What the what!) and had to explain book of mormon, prophets and revelation before we could teach it. She accepted to live it!

Later in the week we called President Ames to talk to him about
teaching Jessica – she lives in Dallas….He said that we should
encourage going to Dallas because if they break up, she’ll have a
support group. But if she wants to stay, she will stay. That was a
hard thing to hear! Shes legit!

Yesterday we taught them again and counseled with them. We taught the rest of the Restoration and she understands it perfectly! She has loads of great questions. We then brought it up. “So has Brother Chesney talked much about ward boundaries? We realize you live it Dallas…” Then Brother Chesney butted in and said, “Well you just got a referral!” Then Jessica pleaded with us to stay in the Grapevine Ward. They apparently were ward shopping around Dallas and In our stake but stopped with ours because it felt like home! So we will continuing to teach her 🙂

We got to call the Zone for the Transfer Doctrine this Morning! The
Zoneleaders have always messed with me when calling for transfers
since my first transfer! Soooo i told one sister she was getting
transfered to Bejing and her new companion i said was going to be
Elder Ling (Shes going home so it wasnt that mean) haha. Elder Evensen and I are stayin here! Glen Beck’s ward lost missionaries and the Southlake ward missionaries are going to cover it along with theirs.

Stay true! If you feel like if you dont have much to work on, read
Almas letter to Corianton and examime yourself again.

Love,

Elder Householder