Baptizin the Corinthians | ElderHouseholder.com

Hey!

This week has been INSANE.

I left Arlington to baptize the Corinthians! Hehe see what I did there…I live in a town called Corinth and we cover 3 cities on BIKE. “Lake Dallas” “Corinth” and “Hickory Creek.” Its basically a little peninsula surrounded by water! Pretty dang awesome. I didn’t think my heart had the capacity to love more people than just Arlington, but my heart just got bigger!

Transfers came and the Elders we were replacing gave us the keys and phone and apologized that the apartment was a mess. We left to Corinth in an RV! Totally awesome! The Brother driving us has a full beard and put on a captain hat and said, “Im what they call “Cap’n Crunch” and swung a real sword around!

We arrived in our apartment to find it a disaster. The previous missionaries left it a stye. We spent the whole day cleaning it.

The previous missionaries left us 3 sticky notes of information about the area. 1 was members who would feed us, 2 was people who would give us rides, and 3 was “Sorry for the mess”. We don’t know ANY body in the area, We know nothing about the area, and we were thrown out in the world and were basically told, “Go teach!” However it was good to no longer feel like Buddy the Elf with the small shower head (The one here is actually above my head! whooo.)

Thursday was all about looking through the “Area Book” and see what we had to work with when it came to investigators. We had basically nothing. So I spent 5 hours calling people that had been taught in the past and see if theyd be interested in having us come over. Friday was all about talking with Bishop and seeing his plans for the ward.

We over time got calls from random members and were lucky enough to be fed! The people out here are amazing! Even those that don’t want to have anything to do with us!

Saturday was good however, Well…youll get what I mean. Elder Reed had some foot problems that we got the ok to go to urgent care to check it out. It was outside our area in Denton. After the appointment, we told the brother that drove us that we wanted to see a mission “Must see” since we were already outside our area. hehe. its a cross-streets of “Fort Worth” and “Mission”!

It was cool to find on Sunday someone who went to MVT, our ward mission leader went to High school with uncle Kelly and Dean, and many others are from the valley or lived there. A brother in the ward was freaking out when he found that I wa the son of Leslie Householder – He loves Jackrabbitt Factor and the other books to death – hes constantly sharing them with family and handing out books haha. Needless to say, hes a BIG fan.

The area is GORGEOUS. Prolly the most beautiful place ive ever been!

Its definitely a weird feeling to be in a companionship where the both of us don’t know anyone…but we are getting there! Its pretty fun. We have a legit place and a full gym!

Ill fill yall in later!

Love Elder Householder