This week was a HUGE week for me!!!!!! I had so much responsibility this week!!! I went on two exchanges this week and for both of those exchanges i stayed in my area and my companion went over to the other missionaries area. Which means i was in charge of my area for both of those days!!!!! The first exchange was with elder treasure!!!! he is such a funny kid and i can see us being really good friends when we get home. he is from idaho and he is going to go to byu when he gets back. he has been out for just about nine months!!! I was so nervous on tuesday because that was my first day taking over the area and being senior companion and i kept thinking the area was going to burn down and i was going to mess everything up!!!!!! BUT I HAVE GREAT NEWS!!!!!! that day has actually been the best day on my mission so far!!!!!! The spirit helped so much and we were able to have such a successful day!!!!! Something that i love doing as a missionary is talking to EVERYONE!!!!!! we can just go up to any person we see and start talking about how their day is going and then talking about the church!!!! Well elder treasure and i went to go check on some potential investigators and it turns out that they moved out of their apartment, but their next door neighbors started talking to us and they invited us inside!!!!! They are our new investigators for the week and they are hilarious!!!! They are brother and sister and they are in their 60's!!! They used to go to a pentacostal church but they LOVE mormons and they talk so much!!!!!!!!! The girls name is connie and she kept telling me that i have such a strong spirit beaming off of me and she kept telling me that im going to be a prophet when i get older haha (yeah right). then she kept telling elder treasure how funny he is!!! we taught them the restoration and they told us to come and visit them everyday!!!! even though we cantn visit them everyday we are gonna try like twice a week!! then elder treausre and i went to some other teacher appointments that i scheduled and they all were home and we got to teach a bunch of lessons!!!!!!! then for my second exchange which happened on friday was with the zone leaders. so elder seager came over to my area and i got to be with him for the day again!!! elder seager is great and he is such an awesome missionary!!!!! him and i are already good friends and he is going to byu also!!!! that day was very successful also and we went to go see connie and gary again (the pentacostals) they were so happy that we came over and connie said that she has been reading from the book of mormon and she LOVES it!!!! they are going to come to church this sunday and i hope that they have a great experience!!!!!!!! and she told elder seager that she sees me becoming a prophet and she told elder seager that he is really smart i have learned so much from elder seager, he is such a great zone leader!!! He started talking about leadership positions with me and asked me what i would think if i became a distrcit leader and a trainer next transfer and i told him that i would NEVER be able to do that!!!!! i told him that im fine with being junior companion for the reast of my mission and he said that is definitely not going to happen!!!! and i got really scared because i feel like that if i get a leadership position im going to stress out and want to do a perfect job and id get mad at myself if i dont do a good job!!!! he taught me a lot about patience and he made me feel so much better and he said that the Lord has so much in store for me and he said he sees me being a zone leader very soon. he was a zone leader his third transfer. i dont see that happening to me and i dont really want that to happen!!!!! then the reast of the week was great!!!!!! we had Kailyns baptism interview and she is getting baptized on saturday which is going to be so awesome!!!!! she is the first person that i commited to baptism and set a date!!!!!!! chelsea kimball if you are reading this i had dinner at a members home on thursday night and the wife looked and acted exactly like you!!!! i could not believe it!!!!!! you guys are exact twins!!!! the couple is in their mid 20's and they are such great members and just moved to texas!!!!!!!! i hope yall have a great week!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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