Ok so I just realized that i forgot to tell yall about my area!!!!!!!!!!! Well my companion and i cover a ward and a branch. The ward is called the Melissa ward and the branch is called the farmersville branch!!! the cities we cover are kinda po dunk and the houses are falling apart! my area is huge so we get a car, which is so legit because i dont have to worry about riding a bike for the rest of the summer!!!! im the driver because my companion cant drive!!!!!!!!!! but last week was another awesome week!!!!!!!!!!!!! on tuesday we had zone council and the stake president talked to us about always having the spirit with us and how important it is!!!!! i loved it!!!!!! then afterwards we had lunch with the zone at this place called cici's pizza!!! I've never been there before because they dont have it in california!!! It only costs 5 dollars and you can eat as much pizza and dessert as you want, it is DIVINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my zone is great, we only have 12 people in the zone. and i love my zone leaders!!!! one of our investigators right now is named brynne and she has 4 kids and they are all so great!!!!! we watched the restoration dvd with them and they loved and i know that they truly could feel the spirit because it was so strong while we were watching it, and i saw brynnes eyes water up!!!! hopefully we can commit them to baptism!!!!! one of the hard things here in texas is that no one is married!!!!!!!! couples have been living together for like 10 years and have kids together but they just dont get married, i guess they think its just easier that way. so we need to have brynne get married to her boyfriend cause she cant get baptized until they are married. another problem is that everyone here smokes!!! its really kinda gross!!!!! me and tracting love each other!!!!!!!! it is so fun and i LOVE meeting all new people!!!!!!! the other day we were tracting and this black guy called us over and he had long dreads in his hair!!!! as soon as he saw me he knew i was from california and he was so wasted!!!! he said he was from compton and i told him i was from newport and he automatically loved me, he didnt like my companion that much. we talked to him for a little bit and he told me that i smoke pot and i told him that i dont smoke and he said that he can tell i smoke pot from the way i talk!!! i guess there really is a southern california surfer accent cause everyone here says that i have a surfer accent and everyone at byu told me that also!!!!!!! then we visited this less active lady and she had 40 cats!!!!!!!! as soon as i saw all of them i knew that caitlin and chelsea would LOVE being in that house!!!!!!!! the lady is totally anti mormon now and she fought with us about temples and things. as soon as we left the house i started getting red bumps all over my arms and i thought maybe it was because of the cats but then a few days later i realized that i have heat rash!!!! its all over my arms and it itches!!!!!!! i hope it goes away soon!!!!!! the good part is that it isnt affecting the work and thats all that matters!!!!!!!!!!! the other day we were tracting and we met this guy named roy and he is 20 years old. he said that he has been searching religions for the truth and guess what popped into my head as soon as he said that?!?!?!!? GOLDEN OPPURTUNITY!!!! he wants us to come back this week and teach him so we are looking forward to that!!!!!!!!!!! we have a baptism scheduled for next saturday and we set two more baptismal dates for the end of august!!!!!!!! my spiritual highlight of the week happened on saturday night!!! we were out tracting and we got to this door and a 60 year old women answered the door and we said our normal greeting and she said she was really busy at the moment and we normally dont bare our testimonies at the door but the spirit was telling me so strongly to. So i just flat out said "Heavenly Father loves you so much and he cares about you and i know that he is there watching over you and he wants to help you with everything" and as soon as i said that she just started crying and i had no idea what to do!!!!!!!! she wanted to give a hug but of course i cant hug her and she told us that when she gets back from her trip this week she wants us to come by and teach her!!!!! it was so great to have the spirit tell me to say that and thats what the lady needed at that exact moment!!!!!!!!!!! this one guy named tyler, in the farmersville branch comes out on splits with us a lot cause he is leaving for his mission in september and he is going to australia!!!!!!!!!! he was up at byu this past year also but i didnt know him cause he living in heritage. he is a stud and he is gonna be an awesome missionary!!!! this message is for all you people that were in the cdm ward!!!!!!!!!!!! GUESS WHO IS IN THE FARMERSVILLE BRANCH?!?!!?!?!?!? ELDER CARMONA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yesterday at church it was my turn to go to the farmersville branch since my compnaion and i split up on sundays since the ward and the branch start at the same time and last sunday i was at the melissa ward!!!!!!!!!!! but as soon as i walked into sacrament meeting yesterday i heard someone yell cody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i was like oh my gosh who knows me by that name and i turned around and it was elder carmona!!!!!!!!! for all you people that dont understand, elder carmona served in my ward like a year ago!!!!!!!!!!! it is so cool that he is in the branch that im serving in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! well it was an awesome week and i hope this heat rash goes aways soon!!!!!!!!! it may take a while for me to get some of your letters cause the office is having a problem with forwarding letters and they said that they will get it fixed soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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