His Great Work...

This past three weeks were a lot of fun! Hope you guys all had fun and stayin safe as usual! 

We had some awesome english connect classes that went super well! We also got to play volleyball with the ysa ward! We talked to two brothers there who only speak spanish and they are so funny!! Our branch started playing soccer and we had like no one show up for that lol. We had 3 people there and then like 10 missionaries haha but the people who came were absolutely insane at soccer! It was a lot of fun and we are really gonna try to get more people to come. There’s just not a lot of men in the branch that actually come to church. I can also officially dunk a dodgeball!! It was the first time I just wanted to see what would happen and I dunked it! 

Jose!! The guy we put on date a couple weeks ago, his baptism was supposed to be this week but we felt like we needed to move it back so we decided to move it. He will still get baptized and he is progressing super good! We also had another lesson with him this week.  He started feeling a lot of pain in his back. He went to the doctor and they told him his spine was inflamed. It started to get super bad. So we decided he needed a blessing. So we got permission that night to go over at like 10 and give him a blessing! It was my first time giving one in spanish! It was a super cool experience and the next day he told us that he was feeling a lot better! This for sure strengthened my testimony of the power of the priesthood!   

Update on training: It's very hard but at the same time it’s a lot of fun! I don't understand why I'm training because I literally felt like I got into the mission yesterday! Time is flying by out here! It’s crazy. My trainee is doing awesome! It’s been a grind for the both of us because my spanish isn't the best it should be but it’s getting better and the more I speak the more confident I am! 

We did some service for a member last week and it was a lot of fun. We were basically just destroying walls down of this shed in their backyard.  But towards the end they had two dogs in the back that were chained up. I went over and pet the big one. He was pretty nice. Elder Walker then proceeded to pet the little shaggy medium sized dog. He was kneeled down petting it. He looked away for a split second and it started biting his knee and Elder Walker took one step back then grabbed it with one hand by the neck and it started biting his hand so he grabbed it with his other hand as well and threw the dog the length of the 10-15 foot chain and while in the air it reached the full length of the chain and kind of yanked the dog back. It was very sad but at the same time pretty funny. All the member saw was him throwing her dog. She didn't know that it had started biting him so she was kind of freaking out but everything is all good now! 

We got to go do some service in Winnie!! The promised land of Texas!! We were on a little farm building a fence for some cows and cleaning up some stuff. It was the most fun I've had while doing service! This last week we got to go back to the person’s house with the shed and basically just destroy the whole thing. It was a lot of fun but holy crap we have been doing so much service! Then Elder Winward and I went and helped the other elders help someone whose inside of their house burned down! He was a very humble guy and was extremely nice to us.  They had taken everything from the inside of the house and whatever else burnt down and put it into a massive pile right in front of his house.  So we basically just moved everything to the side of the road.  I thought it was a super cool experience that I needed!

We had a super good zone conference! I got to see a bunch of the past missionaries I’ve served with! I also had to say bye to my dawg elder mataele, he got shipped off to his original assignment in Guam!

Recently in my personal studies I've been focusing on one question and going from there. I was reading a talk by Elder Bednar and there's a part where he shares a scripture that says "Wherefore, go ye and preach my gospel, whether to the north or to the south, to the east or to the west, it mattereth not, for ye cannot go amiss." And then he went on to say "I do not believe that the phrase “it mattereth not” as used by the Lord in this scripture suggests that He does not care where His servants labor. In fact, He cares deeply. But because the work of preaching the gospel is the Lord’s work, He inspires, guides, and directs His authorized servants. As missionaries strive to be ever more worthy and capable instruments in His hands and do their best to fulfill faithfully their duties, then with His help they “cannot go amiss”—wherever they serve." I love this because it does matter where you serve! The Lord is aware of what you need. He is there to help lead and guide us in our lives. It's awesome that we all have an opportunity to help Him in his great work! 

That was basically my last 3 weeks! Hope you all are doing good! Shoot me an email! I'd love to hear from you guys! Might take me a sec to respond but I will!!