Hey!! It snowed in texas!! We were trapped inside because of freezing rain. Then it got so cold that it turned into snow and then froze the roads and they were so slick so we had to walk everywhere we went. But hey it was a great time it was like 12 degrees outside and I ain't used to that, my body has acclimated to the heat! We had transfers and I got a call from pres telling me that I'm TRAINING… I don't know what was going through his head when he had that idea hahahah. My trainee seems like a pretty cool guy! I just don't know enough spanish to be training lol. There were 3 elders that came in this transfer and they are both in a trio training but it’s just me training my comp/greenie and the rest that came in are sisters! His name is elder winward! Sadly I had to say goodbye to two awesome elders... my comp and elder orielly... but it was awesome to serve around them!
The last 3 weeks were super good! It was busy but that's always a plus! We had an awesome EnglishConnect class! Only like 8 people showed up this time but it was sick. There's two kids that are from Mexico that go to the ysa with one of the members but aren't members and don't know english so we get to go play volleyball with the ysa because no one can really talk to them. When they found out we spoke spanish they were surprised and excited! When we started talking to them they immediately used tu form which I hardly use so i was trippin hahah. But anyways they came to the english connect class this week and I got to talk to one of them one on one and it was sick we talked for like 20 minutes and I did a lot better than I thought I would’ve! We had a great convo in spanish and I learned alot about them hahaha. They are both hilarious! There names are Alejandro and Giovanni. They always ask me if there's any cute girls in Utah its so funny how much they love Utah. They are models for some exercise company its pretty hype hahaha.
We've had quite a few lessons these past few weeks but by far my favorite was with our guy José. We went over to his house and finally introduced the Book of Mormon and taught him the Restoration! We could honestly put him on date but we aren’t because he doesn’t understand as much as he should yet but I know if we asked him he would most definitely say yes. It was awesome. The spirit was very strong during the lesson. He wants to come to church next week with his family! He has the cutest little fam. They have a little girl who's like 1 and she’s adorable, always walks up to me and wants me to pick her up but I can't:( But the lesson was awesome and the whole family is starting to progress so we will see what happens!! We had another lesson with him tonight and it was pretty good! As I was bearing my testimony I had the thought to extend a baptismal invitation and I did and he excepted! We set a date for the 20th of this month!
We walked to the Church to get a change of scenery for our studies and you guys wouldn’t believe what happened… We got there, went to the computer lab and elder orielly had to go to the bathroom so he left and then we heard this yell telling us to come quick! So we ran over to him to see the whole side of the Church flooded. There was literally like an inch and a half of water everywhere. It was just pouring out of the ceiling so we were running to go get the keys to get into where we thought the water shut off was. We had shut the door to the computer lab which had those keys and the doors were locked hahaha. It was awful and the moment but funny looking back at it. We had called our president to ask him where the water shut off would be and he told us outside in one of those green box things. Little did he know the whole thing was full of freezing cold ice water. One of the elders got down, had his whole arm up to his shoulder in it and twisted the shut off and went back in and it was off! We were there for literally 10 hours sucking up water and drying the carpet with shop vacs but hey its all good now!! There was water under the gym floor but we did our best! The snow/ice started to melt then we had another little storm coming so we were told we can hurry and go get groceries and then be back by 4:30 and it was 3:30 at the time. We were running extremely low on groceries and were booking it to the store. We stopped cleaning the church and left. We got there and there was no shopping carts so we ran back out and probs grabbed like 15-20 carts and they were gone in seconds so many people were storming us. It was pretty fun except we got to the store and there was like nothing. We got what we could and left. Then started cleaning again. It was quite an eventful day hahaha.
This week my studies have been fuego. I love personal study! I was reading 1 Corinthians 9:24 that says “Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.” I love that last part. Do it so you can obtain! Study with a real intent. Something I thought of is we are running God’s Marathon. He is there to guide us in our lives! I know He knows where we need to be and exactly why. We had a stake conference and an area seventy came to speak and he said it’s not where you serve it’s how you serve. I’ve heard this before but this applies to everyone not just missionaries! Stand for truth and right wherever you are! I know God is all knowing! His plan is perfect, he doesn’t make mistakes. Wherever you are is exactly where you need to be. You may not realize it in the moment but I testify of this. I did not want to be here in Texas. The first three weeks of my mission were probably the hardest 3 weeks of my life. BUT if you let God change you he will. I hope you all know that as well!! Let God prevail in your life!!
Love you all and have a great week!!
Love you all be safe, stay happy, and have a great week!
Pics
My trainee, me and my trainer/ first comp
Dead dolphin...
Flooded church
Snow
Sanke
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