Mi guerra con el bano

Hey everyone, what is going on?

I hope you all had an awesome Easter, it has been a pretty interesting week restarting this area. We didn’t have any previous investigators to see, since this area has been closed down for a couple months; that means we had to do a lot of tracting. But we had a pretty good week of tracting and we were able to find 6 new investigators in the last part of the week.  So it was a pretty successful time.

I’ve got to explain the title of this email. Last night we got home from our Easter dinner with the branch mission leader and everything was normal.  We did call ins with the zone leaders.  The elders I live with and I were all talking about crazy stories we had and we were relaxing for a bit. Then one of the elders goes to the bathroom which isn’t too crazy of a thing to happen since we are all human. But then 10:30 rolls around and it’s time to go to bed, so I go into the bathroom to pee right before bed which is also pretty normal. But when I flushed the toilet disaster struck! The pipes in the toilet were clogged and backed up, even though it didn’t look clogged, and so the toilet all of a sudden filled all the way up and started to flood the bathroom. At this point I am jumping away from the toilet and picking up the bathroom rug as I run into the hallway screaming that the toilet is clogged and overflowing. Two of the other elders run into the hallway and then see me frantically beating the water back and saving rugs as I go, then instead of helping they both burst out laughing and run into the other room to roll on the ground laughing. Finally when I yell that it is almost reaching into the living room they come out and help stop it and clean it up..... so yeah, how’s that for a mission story?  Don’t worry, now that bathroom is the cleanest it has ever been or probably will ever be again!

Love y’all and hope you have an awesome week and remember always flush twice to be safe or else you are going to make a mess.

Ya me voy de La Place

Hey y’all how’s it going?

I found out today that I’m getting switched to another area already! I’ve only been here in a Place for just over a month and I’m already leaving. But I think that the area that I’m going to has a little bit more Spanish than this one does so I’m excited for that. 

This week I had my first crawfish boil, which is a classic Louisiana thing to eat. Just to let you know that even if in Utah crawfish are just weird crap bugs, they are really good eating down here in Louisiana, it was kinda weird having a weird bug looking thing staring at me while I broke it open to eat the meat; but I got past that pretty quickly.

A good experience from this week that we had was from tracting for a bit. We tried to go tracting in an area that the maps online told us had some Hispanics in it after we had dinner with a less active in that area. So we drive over to the streets that were supposedly Hispanic only to find out that it is a giant factory with 0 houses. For some reason factories always show up as Hispanic on those charts. We decided to go and try to hit a few houses that we saw on the way to that area. We headed that way and on the first house we knocked we met a guy named Miguel, who looked Hispanic so we start talking to him only to find out that he doesn’t know a lick of Spanish cuz he grew up in New York, so we kept teaching him, but just in English and it turned out that he was super interested in our message and invited us to come back. It was a good example to me of how God blesses us even when what we plan doesn’t turn out, and at times when things don’t work it is because he wants us to be doing something else that will bless our lives, or someone else’s more than what we had planned would have.

Love y’all and I hope you have an awesome Easter!

Helping at the horse farm.

Crawfish boil

Conference is the BEST!

Hey everyone,

this week was a pretty good week, we had some fun exchanges with the lulling elders so I got to hang out with Elder Lesser for a day which was awesome since I hadn’t seen him quite as much since we got transferred out of the Metairie quadship.

This week I have to say that conference is honestly my favorite time of the year now, it is so awesome to hear from the leaders of the church because they truly do receive revelation for the whole church. I loved it so much when I could see how each talk either helped me out, or how it could help one of my investigators in their progress toward baptism, it was great.

And to add even more awesomeness to this week we were able to participate in that rebaptism of Nicole this weekend. it was so great! Here in La Place there is one Spanish family who make up 99% of the Hispanics in La Place, and pretty much Louisiana as a whole. Nicole is part of that family and so at her baptism we had almost all of the people that speak Spanish in the entire area. It was so great to see all of them and to see the spirit of baptism work in them. I am very hopeful that it will give that family the kick start they need to be reactivated into the church. And another great blessing was the fact that Nicole’s husband, Derrick, who is not a member was crying almost the whole baptism and all the talks leading into it as well. This may not seem like a big thing but it was, Derrick hasn’t shown very much interest in learning about the church or joining it and the fact that he was able to feel the spirit strong enough to make him cry was a big break through, I am very hopeful for him as well as the rest of the family. 

I love you all and hope you had an awesome conference experience as well!