October 10, 2011

Well this week was another great week being out here in texas!!!!!!!!!!!!! First of all the weather has been cooling down a lot and thats great because its not as hot anymore!!!!!!!!! Its a great thing that the weather has cooled down because we have become partly bike missionaries!!!!!!! The mission has cut a lot of miles from all the cars so now we have to put our bikes on a back rack on the back of the car and we park in a central location in the town that we are working in that day and then we ride all around town on our bikes all day!!!!!!!! Its great because when we are on bikes people see us more often and when members see us they always yell hi to us from their cars which is really cool!!!!!!!! Its a little harder now though because we have to get more rides from members and a lot of members are not very willing to give us rides!!!!!!!!!! We got to teach this man named John this week and he is such a cool guy and he is progressing so much!!!!!!!! His ex wife is a member of the church so he already knows a lot about the church from her!!!!!!!! Whenever we come over to his house to teach a lesson with him he always makes some kind of snack for us which is so great!!!!!!!! He always keeps his reading assignments from us and he even highlights his favorite parts!!!!!!!!!! He is still praying to find out if the church is true or not and i know that he is going to recieve his answer that its true and get baptized!!!!!!!!!! We also got to teach Kendle again, she is 17 years old and she has a baptism date for the end of this month and its going to be great!!!!!!!!!!! She has progressed a lot also!!!!!!!! On wednesday night we had dinner with a family in the Melissa Ward and they have a nephew thats in the Anaheim California mission which is so cool!!!!!!! He is serving in the Santa Ana 11th ward!!!!!! So i got to talk to them about the area!!!!!!! There are two members in one of the Allen wards that are serving in the California Anaheim mission right now!!!!!! Its so funny how many people i have run into that are serving there or have served there or have kids that are there!!!!!!! Well another transfer has gone by and we didnt get a transfer call on saturday night so im staying here for another transfer with Elder Sullenberger!!!!!!!! I know that we will see more miracles this transfer and that there is more work to be done here for me to do!!!!!!!!!!! For the past few days it has been really cloudy and rainy!!!!!!! I hope it gets better because i dont like the rain or clouds!!!!!!!!!!! On friday we also got to meet with a less active part member family and they have a 9 year old son that wants to get baptized so we set a baptismal date with him for the end of october also!!!!!!!!! I love how the spirit can change peoples lives!!!!!! It can even change peoples reactions right in a second!!!!!! We knocked on someones door the other day and she answered how most people normally answer and she said she wasnt interested in learning more but i told her about the book of mormon and how it has helped my life so much and I immediately saw a change in her eyes and she said that she really wanted to learn more about the Book of Mormon!!!!!!! As long as people open their hearts to the spirit then it will definitely be able to affect and they will be able to recieve more blessings than they can even imagine!!!!!!!!!!!! Well i hope that all of you are having great weeks!!!!!!!!! Halloween is almost here and i have already seen so many crazy halloween decorations on peoples houses, its hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope you all have a great week!!!!!!!!!!!!!