4/1/2024

This week has had a lot of stuff going on. You will have to read to find out. #sorrynotsorry

NOW ON WITH THE STORY

Monday

This was actually one of the most fun P-Days I’ve had. now I’ve had a lot of really good ones but this one just took it back to the basics. I got to go to Walmart again! Don’t get me wrong, H-E-B is awesome but I really missed having a Walmart Super-center. Once we met up with the district we were set. There is only one other companionship in the district! Yep, its just Me, Elder West, DeGraw, and Ashcraft. However we added 2 to our district for the day by spending time with our AMAZING Senior Missionaries the Roberts! Like I said earlier we went back to the basics, we played card games! It was super fun. Then we went to this really good burger restaurant called Pappas Burger. All the free advertising they will get is that it was really really good and I highly recommend it. While we were eating it down-poured for about 20 minutes but then it was fairly clear the rest of the day. Then we went back to the Roberts place and played more card games. Trust me when I say this, the basics are the greatest! We finished up P-Day time at the church talking to family. Then we went and visited our friend Gisel. She was one of the Sisters friends but they left the area so now we are teaching Gisel. She is very open to the Gospel and we put her on date for Baptism! After having an amazing time there we went to another friend who just likes to have discussions with us and I guess will buy groceries for us so there is a plus there too. The people in this area are really cool.

Tuesday

Super good day. It was the first zone call of the transfer so that was fun. We have so many people we are currently teaching. One friend we were waiting for about 30 minutes for him to get there. While we were going through the Gospel of Jesus Christ he was going with it. He agreed that we need to be Baptized but then said he didn’t want to be Baptized because he was not ready at that time. He kinda confessed a lot of stuff. We assured him that he doesn’t have to get Baptized right now but he can when he is ready. We left him with 2 Nephi 31. Then we visited another friend. He and his family are from Africa and speak a language called Kinyarwanda. Google translate has been really useful. Our friend also speaks a bit of English so he is our translator as well. He took us to some other people in a different complex who also speak Kinyarwanda. He just gave us a few more people to try teaching. We spent like 2 hours there it was crazy. We ended our night by visiting a member from the French Branch. It was super fun and the energy there was crazy. Another really packed day.

Wednesday

I started off the day super tired. I woke up a few times during the night so it was just a difficult morning. We had a lesson at 9 so we didn’t have as much time to get ready for the day. The lesson went through but the guy said he didn’t want to waste our time. He was super nice and chill but we just gave him the YSA info in case he got interested again. Then we had our first District Council of the transfer with our 4 person district. I went from having a 12 person district to 4. wow

However it was actually really fun just having 2 companionships. After the council we didn’t have anything really set-up so it just became finding time and knocking doors which kinda sucks. Our lesson with Gisel went really good. We taught about the commandments and got her a baptismal calendar. Then we picked up the Spanish Elders who are now also covering MP2 and we went to the ward mission leaders apartment to have pizza and our correlation meeting. That was fun and it was also the last because they were getting ready to move. That's 2 areas in a row where I get there and the ward mission leader is getting ready to move. Anyway we stayed as a quad together for the evening and just went through a complex OYMing people on our way until 9. At the end of the day looking back it wasn’t all bad. 

Thursday

Much shorter day. We did all our studies and planning then hopped onto a mission zoom. Then we did a little cleaning before having to go to our interviews with President Richards. It was at the Beachnut Building which is a super old church building. Then we had a really fun little Easter lesson with a recent convert. We had a few other lessons then came back to the apartment because I was going on an exchange with the Zone Leaders. And guess where their area is now! SunnySide! My last area!

Friday

Well it was just a typical day in SunnySide except this time I was there with Elder Short. Now don’t let his name deceive you. He is actually tall. We just tried to visit a bunch of people and then we did actual knocking on house doors…. in SunnySide…. It was kinda a shock but that's all good. The only people we were able to visit that I knew was the Bravo family. It was kinda a boring day but it was all good. Maybe soon I will go on an exchange with Elder DeGraw or Ashcraft. 

Saturday

Ooooohhhh YES! Saturday was REALLY Good! We started off by getting the Spanish missionaries again and we went to help the ward mission leader move. It took a bit but it was really fun. He gave each of us $20 and then said we could take the 18 pack of Kraft Mac n Cheese. I don’t think I’ll need to go shopping on P-Day. Then we helped another member move. They just moved apartment complexes within the ward boundary so we weren’t saying bye or anything like that. At the end they got us pizza so boom, the $20 I got was no longer being used for lunch. After both of these services we went to get ready for the Baptism of our friend Clercin! Yep there is another Baptism in which I did nothing for so I won’t be counting this one as one of mine. I was only there for his Baptismal interview. After the Baptism Elder West and I celebrated at a burger place called Becks Prime. Again here is some free advertisement. It was a really good burger that could be counted as fast food because this place had a drive through. Be careful McDanolds, Becks Prime is coming to take your throne. Then we met with the Kinyarwanda families again. This time we just kinda started teaching them some words in English and just tried to communicate more. It was super fun but we spent so much time there. We eventually ended the night at a members house and got some more dinner. It was a super successful Saturday.

Sunday

EASTER SUNDAY! You already know that it will be good no matter what. Even if we didn’t have as many friends there because they either were sick or slept in, it was still a really good Sunday. We just did some finding after church and helped one of our friends out. We met a lady who speaks French so we sent her info to the French Sisters who have been struggling to find people. They went by probably 30 minutes to an hour later and this lady was super interested and also wanting to learn English. It was a miracle and an answer to their prayers. 

Super great week and we were able to end it on a miracle, how amazing is that? I hope you are doing great wherever you are whether you are in another country or just another state, or maybe you are chilling at home, I hope you are doing Fantastic. Keep it going. Oh also I hit 200 Days since I started my home MTC. Time is flying.

Chow

 

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