October 24, 2011

Well this week was another great week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On tuesday we had district meeting and my district planned a huge mega surprise for me without me even knowing about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At the end of district meeting they told me to close my eyes so I did and when I opened them they wrote "HAPPY THREE YEARS ELDER CODY LARKIN TUMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and there was a cake sitting on the table and a bunch of happy birthday signs!!!!!!!!!!!!! We celebrated the day I got baptized. October 19, I cant believe it has already been three years since I became a member of the church!!!!!!!!!! I couldnt believe the party that they suprised me with!!!!!!!!! I dont even know how they remmebered that I got baptized on October 19!!!!!!!! My district is the best ever, i love them so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We got to have a lesson with John on wednesday and he is still doing so great!!!!!!!! He is so close to getting baptized and I know that he is going to recieve his answer so soon!!!!!!!!!!!!! He hasnt been able to go to the melissa ward yet because he goes to church with his ex wife and daughter down in dallas. Then on wednesday night we got to go to young womens!!!!!!!!!! I love that the first time i have ever been to young womens was on my mission!!!!!!!!!!! The two girls from the family that we are teaching went to mutual on wednesday night so we were invited to go also!!!!!!! We carved pumpkins and did some service by cutting up beads and stuff!!!!!!!!!!! The youth in the melissa ward are so great and our two investigators had so much fun and the youth welcomed them like no other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am sosososososo proud of them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then on thursday we had a lesson with William and he is doing great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When we told him that he was going to have his baptismal interview the next day he got so scared!!!!!!!!!! He told us that he wanted a copy of the questions and he wanted to write all his answers down and bring them into the interview with him!!!!!!!!! We let him know that the interview is not a test and he has nothing to worry about!!!!!!!! It is just there to make sure that he has a testimony and that he knows what he is doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So he was fine and he is sooooo stoked to get baptized!!!!!!!!!! On friday we had specialized training down in Dallas so we got to hear from President and Sister Durrant and Elders Jensen and Westfall which was so awesome!!!!!!! I love training days because we get to learn so much and our leaders our truly inspired by the spirit which is so great!!!!!!!!! After specialized training I got to go on exchanges with Elder Hong and Elder Seager and I went over to their area with Elder Hong which was great!!!!!!! Elder Hong is such a great example to me and I learn so much from him everyday!!!!!!!!!!!! So it was fun that I got to spend the night down in Allen!!!!!!!! Then on saturday it was the day of service for the Allen Stake!!!!!!!! All of the missionaries in our district went up to Bonham to do service on a farm up there and elder sullenberger and I went to Anna to do service there at a park with the melissa ward!!!!!!! We cut down branches from trees and cleared up the trails!!!!!!! It was a lot of fun because we all got to serve together and service is so great because in the scriptures we learn that when we are serving the people around us, we are also serving our God!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of the members tied up an old tree to his truck and pulled it out of the ground with his truck which was hilarious!!!!!!! He had an audience of like 50 people and it was the best!!!!!!!!! Stuff like that doesnt happen in california!!!!!!!!!! Then at night we had a great lesson with the Hamm family and we watched the Testaments, and they are doing so great!!!!!!!!!! My week was great and I love serving the Lord and being a representative of Jesus Christ!!!!!!!!!!! I hope all of you have an awesome and blessed week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!