Ill just jump into it! This week has been pretty interesting. Its been difficult, but Ive been able to find some funny moments amongst the hard times:
This last tuesday I went on an exchange with my Zone Leader Elder Nielson. He has been struggling with some sort of spiderbite/irritation and was concerned about it so we ended up getting the Ok from Sis. Ames (Mission Pres. Wife) to go to the Urgent care. While riding a mile and a half away to the urgent care, it was slightly raining. I crossed the street and totally biffed it in the urgent care parking lot, shredding the pocket area of my favorite slacks (but nothing beneath if you catch my drift! ;] ), taking my scabs off from my last fall, and making me symetrical with my hip bruises and skinned ankles! (from the last one to this one). I just go into detail cause its a cool story. Battle Wounds! In the meantime Elder Nielson almost got hit by a car! Walking into the Urgent care, Elder Nielson realized he left the insurance card at the apartment…So broken, we rode back home, changed pants and grabbed the card and went back. We taught a nurse basically lesson one too – so wasnt a total waste of time!
We also taught Will at the Eldredges again after being outta town for a month!
Wednesday while out with Bobby, we got a call from the ‘North Elders’ (other set of missionaries in our ward) telling us that someone at the hospitol in our area needed a blessing and asked if we could do it. We immediately went over there and gave it to the person. I almost passed out mid prayer! Dont lock your knees! haha Cool experience.
Thursday we went by a kid we wanted to start teaching and he wasnt home, but his older brother Mike let us in and we taught him lesson one and he accepted baptism on the 30th! We’ll see how that goes! He said, “I think I needed this!”
We’ve been helping a lot of people move recently – we’re the wards moving crew! haha We get fed too, so I cant complain! The food here is awesome! Lots of meat, pizza, mexican food, Tex-Mex, and other stuffages.
Yesterday in Priesthood, the teacher gets up and says, “So I wasnt here last week, so I hope nobody spoke on this subject! Its Elder Zwick’s ‘What Were You Thinking?” We all smiled because thats what we were taught last week haha last weeks teacher threw in a lot of good points in the lesson and I think it suprized this weeks teacher how many good points he had! Not knowing he taught the same thing last week haha. The Lord has a great sense of humor – after learning about that talk and not applying it well this last week, Were taught it again this week…haha “I get the point!”
Last night we were riding home in the dark (with our bike lights) and because I usually lead the way (knowing the area a little better), I crossed a street light and looked back to see if my comp was following. He was nowhere in sight! It was really weird! So I turned back and found him getting back on his bike. Someone threw one of those half-liter waterbottles half full at him from a car…So messed up. Thats my worst fear about being near the main roads – with my orange incidents in the past. Its still hurting him a little, but he’ll be fine.
I love Arlington! Its really ghetto and rundown in some areas, but the members are great, and I love the natural scenery! We’re teaching a couple people some lessons, but everyone is flakey at the same time…its kinda like, “If you catch me, teach me. If im not home, try later” Its hard to set appointment times and have them keep it. Sandra is progressing great! she should be baptized within the month hopefully. Claude is dealing with some legal troubles so we meet with him when we can. Derek keeps canceling. We continue to meet with some less-actives and they are progressing too! The work is great! Flippin (i may get punched for that) hard, but worth it in the end!
Love all y’all to death! And I love hearing from you, thanks for the letters!
Elder Householder
