This week was another great week here in
texas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was a tiring week because I
did a ton of service but it was still so much fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On
tuesday i got to spend the day with Elder Ricks because i went over to
his area and he is a great elder!!!!!!!! He got here to texas the same
time Brazil Will did!!!!!!!!!!! His area is a little part of
Lewisville which is the town right above Carrollton and he also covers
the YSA ward for the Carrollton stake which i am so jealous of because
i want to serve in a YSA ward!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was fun to meet
all his investigators and to go over to lewisville!!!!!!!!!!!! the
part of lewisville they cover is very ghetto so it was way fun at
night!!!!!!!!!! We ate at Emilyns house for dinner that night which
was funny because I had dinner there with my companion the night
before!!!!!!!!! Emilyn is a girl that is 18 that just got baptized and
she is in one of the wards that im serving in!!!!!!!! Her conversion
story is a little like mine except her mom kicked her out of the house
when she got baptized and now she lives with her dad which is pretty
close to her moms house!!!!!!!!!!!! She has a great testimony and the
Lord is definitely helping her with her
situation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then on wednesday morning we found
out that they are moving the districts around so I am now in the
carrollton south district and elder mchardy is now my district leader
which is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He served with me in the allen
zone and it so funny to have him as my district leader now!!!!!!!!!!
He is a great elder and i have learned a lot from
him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On wednesday, elder hedberg and i rode
our bikes over to east carrollton to go visit the man that came to
church with his friend last sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is waaaaay ghetto
over in east carrollton by the train tracks!!!!!!!!!!!! good thing it
was the afternoon when we were over there!!!!!!!!! The man lives in a
warehouse and he is such a great guy and he is so humble!!!!!!!!!!!!
We got to talk to him about the book of mormon and he is going to read
it and pray about it and we are meeting with him again this week which
will be great!!!!!!!!!!!!! His roommates name is Greg and he is a
talker!!!!!!!!!! He talks waaaay more than me and he just goes off on
tangents everytime we bring something up so its really hard to teach
about the gospel when Greg is there!!!!!!!!! Greg is really interested
also so hopefully he keeps the commitments that we left with
them!!!!!!!!!!! Then the next day we did a ton of service in the
morning and in the afternoon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we helped a family thats
in the spanish branch load up all their stuff because they are moving
to Venezuela!!!!!!!!!!! Our whole district was there helping and it
was a lot of fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then on friday we did MORE
service!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! theres a lady in the Carrollton 1st ward that
needed a ramp for her front stairs so we went over with our ward
mission leader to help build that!!!!!!!!!! While my companion and the
ward mission leader built the ramp, i went around the house and pulled
all the weeds and picked up all the dead leaves!!!!!!!!!!! I was so
exhausted and when i was done they couldnt believe i did all that work
by myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It reall is so great serving other
people because in the scriptures we learn that when we are serving
other people we are also serving God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yesterday
we had a great lesson with this lady named Becki!!!!!!!!!!!!! She and
her husband and her two kids just moved here from Nigeria!!!!!!!!!!
and it was my first time meeting with her!!!!!!!!!!!! For some reason
im always finding people to teach that are from africa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
she is such a great lady and she really wants to find out if we can
have prophets in these latter days so we left her some chapters to
read and she is going to pray about and hopefully she will be at
church next sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love being a
missionary so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we get to do so many great
things and we get serve everyone around us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it is
seriously the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this gospel is the most
precious thing that we can have here on earth and its here to help us
with any of our trials!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope that all of you have an
awesome week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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