Dos siempre tiene una razon

Que pasa amigos?

I hope everyone is having a great time back in school doing the classic school things like sitting at a desk all day trying not to bang your head too hard against it when you don’t understand something, haha just kidding, I know that all of y’all are too smart to have that happen to you (: 

Anyways this week has been a good one, we had some really good lessons and we met some great people, one of the highlights is the fact that the sister missionaries had a baptism this last Friday! They were able to baptize a young lady named Kris that they have been teaching for quite a while now so that was awesome!

We had a great lesson with one of our investigators named J this week and she says that she will for sure read the Book of Mormon and that she will come to church next week so we will pray that she follows through with those commitments. 

Another thing that I thought was awesome this week is that I went on exchanges with our district leader Elder Teare. He is a great guy from California and it was fun to work with him for the day. And during the day when we were knocking some doors we ran into a kid named C and something he said was great when we invited him to pray about the message and eventually read the Book of Mormon when he gets it and he said "why not, I have nothing to lose, if it isn’t true I can go back to my normal life, but if it is true then why wouldn’t I want to have it in my life." and I was all like, hallelujah someone that actually understands  that we aren’t there to destroy their faith; we are there to augment it and they literally have nothing to lose from listening to us. It was nice. 

Final thing from this week that I loved was another one of those moments that was initially a bad experience but ended up teaching a good lesson. We ran into a guy while tracting (lots of stories begin with that phrase) and we met this Spanish guy from Mexico and he let us in to talk with him, we were super excited we had found another Spanish guy. So we teach him the restoration and ask him if it okay to come by some other time to bring the Book of Mormon and he said no.  He told us that he was very, very catholic and he wasn’t interested in changing and he wouldn’t accept a BOM because it would just sit there unread and if it really was as important as we said it was it should be given to someone who will read it and enjoy it. We left a little bit sad cuz it is always sad when someone isn’t receptive to the message, but it did reteach me a lesson that he hit on, that if the Book of Mormon is true and it is as important as we say it is we should always be excited to study it, I know when I was back home I didn’t study it as much, as I should have and so this experience really told me that we should always make time for something that is as amazing and central to our church and life itself, no matter what happens in our day. 

I love you all and I hope that you have a great week!

Blessings on Blessings

Hey y’all what is up?  I hear it is that time of year for everyone to go back to school; that is crazy that the summer is already over.  I hope you all have a good time in your classes! Things have been going really well over here in Houma.  I’m really loving it here with the quadship I’m in, and my new companion. We have been super blessed since coming here.  We were able to get 9 new investigators in the few days that we were here; which is a lot more than I was able to get in a full week in Morgan City. So we are being blessed for being here

Also I was super excited this Sunday to see how big the ward was and how supportive they are of the missionaries.  They have a great program going on here where each quorum is assigned to a different set of missionaries; and so the missionaries and those quorums work together on everything. It is super nice to have that kind of support from a ward. Haha but even though this ward is so put together, it still has some things that go wrong that they can’t control.  Like the fact that the gospel principles teacher didn’t show up, and didn’t get a sub. So me and my companion had to teach the class with about 2 minutes preparation.  That seems to happen in most wards though. It was pretty rough at first, but then it got better.  Haha flying by the seat of my pants is something I’m becoming pretty decent at. 

But yeah, I’m loving it down here so far and thus far it seems like Houma will be a little bit easier to open up again than Morgan City was.

Anyways sorry for the short email, I’ll give y’all more details on the investigators we have next week after we make sure they are as solid as they seem. 

Love y’all, have a great time at school!!

Transfers, Poison Ivy, Zone Conference

Hey y’all what is up?

I’m no longer going to be in Morgan City, we had transfer calls last night and I will be in Houma and my new comp is going to be Elder Hernandez; whose family is from Mexico.  He speaks perfect Spanish, so hopefully mine will improve while I am with him. I’ll send y’all the new address I’m going to be at when I find out. 

So this week we didn’t have a lot of success with meeting with people, a lot of them were not available, so that was a bummer. But we did have a lesson with J and R so it was nice to see them before getting transferred. It was an ok lesson, but they are confused on why they would need to be baptized again, even after us explaining it to them.  We planned on going back this next week to clarify things with them, I’ll find out what happens with that from Elder Gee and his new trainee. 

Also this week I found out that I have become a true Louisiana missionary, I now have contracted poison ivy and also fire ant bites; something that almost all Louisiana missionaries get. Haha! We are planning on playing a prank on some of the greenies saying that I’ve contracted a rare disease right after I shake their hands or give them a hug and then I’ll show them the rashes so we will see what happens.  I think it is going to be hilarious.

Also we had a visit from Elder Klebingat, in which he gave us some amazing information about the purpose of the houses of Israel in missionary work, and how we were all chosen specifically to be born when we did, and be where we are now. It was a great visit and I think it motivated us all to be more exactly obedient and to work a lot harder. It over all was very enlightening. 

I hope you all have an awesome week!!!