Happy day after Mother's Day

Hey everyone how are y’all doing?       

I hope you all had an awesome Mother’s Day, it was a super fun one here! Facetiming home was definitely the highlight of the week!

This week the branch president’s son, Kyle, got baptized. It was super great! The baptism went well with one minor set back. The plug in the font decided to malfunction so when we opened the doors to the font for the baptism the water was only up to about knee high. But even with that we were able to get him baptized, it just took a few tries. Ha ha I guess you can drown someone in 2 feet of water.  Then the next Sunday Kyle shared his testimony with the branch and it was awesome.  It was amazing that someone that young could have that strong of a testimony.

This week we also got to meet an awesome lady named Sierra. We were a little surprised when we got a call from the sisters serving in the Hawaii temple about the referral but it was worthwhile. She was super nice and was very attentive to the lesson of the restoration. She seemed like she had some pretty good potential. She even told us she was looking for a church since she knows she needs to become more knowledgeable about Christ and needs to worship God more. Pray that she keeps staying solid!

Love y’all I hope you have an awesome week!

This week

What’s up everyone?

This week has been a pretty odd one, we have had a lot of good times going around teaching, and some odd people that we have met.

First experience of the week was right after we got rejected at the last door we were going to try before our dinner appointment with a member family. We walked over to our bikes, and walked them to the end of this drive, to wait for a the main street we were on to clear, so we could cross. While we wait this group of girls (probably 7th graders) come around the corner and then call out to us asking who we are and what we do, while walking toward us. We had seen these girls walking two streets over and they had yelled at us calling our bikes sexy and yelling out their #'s. So I, seeing that the road is clear to go, try to ride away.  But before Elder Israelsen can get going, they are in front of him complementing his tie, and calling him hot and other stuff. Haha! I had no idea what to do to get him out of there, so he just had to sit there awkwardly and deflect their comments until they finally walked away. Ha ha, poor guy. 

We also had the opportunity to participate in a bonfire that some members had- to burn all of the stuff their sons, now ex-girlfriend, had sent him since she did him dirty, and “Dear Johned” him with a wedding announcement.

Another cool experience we had this week was when we went and followed up with one of the people we met a little bit ago. The first time we met him he didn't seem like he was super interested in what we were saying, and didn't look like he was paying much attention to us. He didn't have enough time for us to go through the whole restoration with him, so we had to end early. But this time when we saw him, he was happy to see us. We asked him if he remembered what we talked about last time. He couldn't at first, but once we started reviewing it he remembered it, and even stated that he was paying pretty close attention last time. So we finished the restoration with him and he liked it a lot, and told us we could for sure come back. He even gave us an acronym for the bible, "Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth". It was a pretty good time.

Well I love you all, and hope you have an awesome week and pretty soon an awesome summer! Good luck with state track, that is coming up soon! 

PIC:

All the elders in our apartment.

missionary work is tiring... even on pday

Into the Woods/Bayou

Found a turtle

Ya es Mayo! Que paso!

Hey everyone what’s going on?

It is the first of May already which means that y’all only have 1 month of school left, if you’re in high school, or you are already done if you’re in college (or maybe that is just BYU). That is so crazy! I can’t believe it is already that time. So that also means a lot of people have  gotten their mission calls. If y’all know someone with a call let me know where they are going! And all y’all that have one, good luck on your mission; it isn’t like anything that you have ever thought, so be prepared to be surprised.

This week we had another good time tracting.  We were in a small city called Amelia out here that is almost 100% Hispanic.... minus the handful of Vietnamese people we ran into that couldn’t speak a lick of English or Spanish, it’s weird to run into them because I’m not used to meeting people that I can’t understand seeing as almost everyone speaks English or Spanish, well I guess they speak Southern too, but I’m fluent in that too at this point (read elder Moody’s email for more descriptions of Southern, my favorite is churin instead of children).

One of my favorite experiences from this week was with one of the Spanish people we met while tracting. This little Mexican family let us in to talk to them, but after we came in the wife went to the back room and started cleaning and the kids ran into the corner and played on the phone. So we were teaching the dad and he seemed to like what we were saying, he got off subject pretty easily because whenever we asked him a question he took it and ran with it so far that we were then talking about something completely different than we were before. We did get through the lesson with him, and it was pretty awesome.  It seems like he will be a pretty solid investigator. But part way through I looked down at his feet and saw that he had an ankle monitor, so he was under house arrest for something. Idk what it was, but needless to say we may not be getting him to church for a little bit. 

Love y’all, hope you have an awesome week, good luck with AP tests!

Cool gun grill I found while tracting.

Kittens at a members house.