Well this week was a stressful week but it is still so awesome being a missionary!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Since monday was my last preparation day with Elder Sullenberger we went down to Allen to play TopGolf with Elders Park and Dunbar and it was a ton of fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is a member of their ward that works there so we got to do it for free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then on tuesday morning it was transfers so we headed down to the main church down in Dallas and i met my new companion Elder Clark!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is great because he smiles a lot just like me except he is a little shy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He has been on his mission for almost 11 months!!!!!!!!!!!! Our whole district ended up getting switched up!!!!!!!!!!! Elder Calderwood got a new companion and his name is Elder Duffin and he is so cool!!!!!!!! And Elder Dunbar got a new companion and his name is Elder Park and him and I are really good friends!!!!!!!!!! Elder Hong got a new companion and his name is Elder Olvera and he is really cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Im still in the same area, I love it because I have been getting to know the members in the Melissa ward and the Farmersville Branch very well!!!!!!!!!! I had an awesome thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!! We ate at the Dowds house and there were 32 people there!!!!!!!!! There was so much food and it was all so good!!!!!!!!! There was a girl there who just got baptized a week ago and she couldnt eat with her parents because they basically disowned her for getting baptized, its such a sad story but its so great how members of the church are right there to help her every step of the way!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After we had dinner at the Dowds we brought over a plate of food for Laura because she had no where to go for thanksgiving, she LOVED that we brought her a plate!!!!!!!!!! On friday we spent the day in Princeton and it was great because we got to Tract around there and meet a lot of people!!!!!!!! We got to have a lesson with Sister Lawson and Sister Smith that night and it was so great!!!!!!!!!! We got to give Sister Lawson a blessing!!!!!!!! I love the priesthood and the spirit so much!!!!!!!!!!!! When we were at Lauras apartment on thanksgiving one of her daughters friends came by, his name is Josh and he is 20 years old!!!!!!!!!! He told us that he has met with missionaries before and that he has a book of Mormon!!!!!!!!!! So i asked him for his phone number and I gave it to Elder Hong and Olvera because they are the missionaries that cover the singles ward!!!!!!!!! They ended up meeting with him on friday and he is getting baptized!!!!!!!!!! We went over to Lauras on Saturday to teach a lesson and Josh ended up being there so we got to teach him also!!!!!!!!! I love how the Lord puts people that are prepared into our path!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yesterday in the morning we got an unexpected call from Laura and she told us that she doesnt want to become a member of the church anymore and I got so sad!!!!!!!! I told her we would come visit her after church to work things out!!!!!!!! She is still struggling with not smoking but I know that she can do it!!!!!!!!!!!! We got to teach this black lady yesterday named Ms. Riley and she is HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i LOVE black people so much because they are so funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then at night we had a great lesson with a less active family and they are going to start coming back to church!!!!!!!!!!!! I love missionary work so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh yeah, on sunday morning we got a text from our ward mission leader telling us that he is sick and that I had to teach gospel principles, i barely got to prepare because we always have long meetings on sunday mornings!!!!!!!!!!!!! of course i taught on member missionary work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is truly the Lords work and he uses us as his tools to go out and teach the people the gospel!!!!!!!!! The spirit is so great and it can truly change peoples lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so thankful for this church and I love all of our leaders and the examples that they set for all of us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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