Deaf people, Blakleys, Court of Honor

Hey y’all how’s life?

It’s been a pretty eventful week this week. We had some pretty fun experiences this week while tracting and teaching

We were tracting this week and we had something happen that I never thought I would encounter in the mission.... we ran into some deaf people. We knocked on the door of the apartment we were at, and the husband (who can hear loud noises) came to the doo.  We started to do a door approach and he then said just one word, "deaf". So at this point we were stumped for like 10 seconds on what to do but decided to pull out one of our Book of Mormons and a restoration pamphlet and point to the pic of Jesus on the pamphlet and the word Mormon on the book. He then got super excited, motioned for us to come in and went and got his wife. We then talked to them through writing things down on a piece of paper and passing it around. Come to find out missionaries had taught them before a long time ago and they were super interested in hearing a message again. Now we have bought some white boards and markers and are getting ready to go and see if the spirit can teach through our writings.

We also had a good time going to Mr. B house this week. He is the old man we meet while biking around last week. We were able to have two lessons with them since then, and they seem awesome. I guess you really need to make sure that even the random people on the sides of the street hear the gospel because they just may be the ones that are ready to hear it.

We also got to go to an eagle scout court of honor this week for a member named D.P. it was great. It was also super cool to find out that all of the missionaries that are serving in Houma are eagle scouts. 

So yeah that is the week, have fun with the cold and snow! (if there is snow yet)

veterans day finding, transfers, spanish finding, early thanksgiving

Hey everyone, how’s life?

Things are doing pretty good  down here in Houma. We have been able to tract a little bit more Spanish this week and we have a few good potential investigators out of the group we talked to. I’m hoping we can find a whole lot of Spanish and start a group down here.

Anyways this week we had transfers and Elder Hernandez is leaving to go to Chalmete with my MTC comp Elder Stoddard, and I am getting an Elder named Elder Clifford who also came out in the same transfer I did but he was in the Provo MTC. It is going to be a fun next transfer because Elder Clifford is a nut. 

The highlight of this week actually stems from us being a little bit late to an early thanksgiving dinner on Veterans Day. Elder Hernandez and I had just finished tracting a bit in the new Spanish area we found and were on our way to the dinner appointment, and we already were going to be like 5 min late. Then while we are going through the ghetto on the way there, we have this group of huge black dudes shout us down.  So we go and talk to them and give them a pamphlet and they kept asking us questions about the law of chastity and word of wisdom.  They were all super surprised to find that we actually do follow those things, it was super funny because one of them the whole time was like, "oh yeah they do all that stuff, I watch plenty of documentaries on them, they be pure, they be God’s people." Then after that we started biking again, now already late for the dinner, when we get shouted down by another older black man named Mr. B. He was a super nice guy who was selling American flags on the corner for Veterans Day. Anyway, we had a long discussion about what we do as missionaries and he was super impressed about all the things we give up to serve the Lord.  He told us to for sure visit him sometime, so he gave us his address and # and we are going to stop by and see him this Thursday. But yeah eventually we made it to dinner; it was for sure worth it to be a little late and meet those people. And the early thanksgiving was a blast as well. 

So yeah that is the week, I hope y’all have an awesome week and stay warm up there in Utah.

Early Thanksgiving with the Marlatt's

Mission and Stake Conference

Hey everyone how’s life? 

Things are going pretty good down here in the good old south. We had a really good weekend because we got a visit from Elder Klebingat and Elder Oaks! It was a super great time listening to them and hearing all of their advice for us as missionaries. Some of the highlights were when Elder Oaks taught us a bit about humility and becoming Christlike. For the humility part he told us that a misconception with humility is that we need to feel as though we are below everyone else.  He stated that humility is the ability to recognize and accept being taught new things, and to recognize that everyone has different strengths, and can help you on your path towards the celestial kingdom. Then with the becoming Christlike part he stated that there is a difference between having a testimony of the Gospel and being a disciple of Christ. He says that having a testimony and testifying is to know and say something, but to become a true disciple of Christ we must do, we must act on our knowledge. And also we must act on it for the right reasons, not because we just know it is the right thing to do, but also because it is the desire of our hearts to do it. I loved learning these things and many others from Elder Oaks, it was a great experience.

Also this weekend for Stake Conference we got the opportunity to spend a night in Chalmete with Elder Stoddard and Isrealsen, both of whom were past companions of mine. It was great to see them and get to talk and catch up with them.

And that is it for this week, I hope y’all have an awesome week!

Mission Conference with Elder Oaks & Elder Klebingat

Service - and Momo's to keep the dog fur off