January 30, 2012

This week has been a fantastic week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In the
beginning of the week we had some rain and its very interesting being
a bike missionary when it rains!!!!!!!!!! On tuesday night it started
pouring!!!!!!!! Even though it was pouring we still went out and
worked!!!!!!!!!!!! My whole entire body just ended up getting soaking
wet, good thing i didnt bring my backpack or everything inside of it
would have gotten ruined!!!!!!!!!!! All i had with me was a book of
mormon and i kept it in the back of my pants!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then on
wednesday it was still raining but it wasnt as bad, it was just
sprinkling which was good!!!!!!!!!!! We were out tracting on wednesday
and we came up to this one guys door and for some reason I felt so sad
when we were standing at the door!!!!!!! We knocked on it and the guy
answered and he was like "i worship the devil!!!" and then i realized
why i felt so sad!!!!!!!!!!!!! I tried to ask the guy if we can share
a message of happiness with him and to help him feel joy in his life
but he kept saying all the satanic things!!!!!!!!!! that really made
me realize that there are so many people out there that are lost and
it is up to us and the spirit to help them feel joy!!!!!!!!!!! i am so
thankful for the spirit and the comfort it brings to our lives and the
happiness we can feel from it!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so thankful to be a
missionary for the Lord's church!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On thursday we got to
meet with this great lady named Sister Jones (She isnt related to Carl
because shes black) she is hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! she got baptized a
couple years ago and she is so enthusiastic about the gospel, i LOVE
it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She hasnt been going to church lately
because of medical reasons but she will soon!!!!!!!!!!!! She has been
having the Jehovah Witnesses come over and she ends up teaching them
all about the church, she is great!!!!!!!!!!! She wanted us to talk
with her about the 144,000 that it talks about in the book of
Revelations, so we did and it went great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we
talked a little bit about her going to the temple!!!!!!!!!! She has a
recommened except she calls it her endowment which is
hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! when we asked her about it she realized
that she lost it so she spent like 20 minutes running around her
apartment yelling "where is my endowment?!?!?!!? i am not going to bed
tonight until i find it!!!!!!!" she found it so it was all ok!!!!!!!!
She has had her recommend for a year and a half and she has still not
gone to the temple with it!!!!!!!!! She is a great example of patience
to me!!!!!!!!!!!! She is gonna go in the next few weeks but she wanted
to wait until she felt all the way ready!!!!!!!!!!! she is an awesome
lady!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then on saturday we spent the day in dallas
finding some new people and visiting less active people which was
great!!!!!!!!!! And sunday was great also because we got to stop by
some other people!!!!!!!!!! Its been a hard week for the Starks (the
family we live with) because their nephew just passed away!!!!!!!!!!
His mom is in the first ward!!!!!!!!!!!! The funeral is going to be
this thursday!!!!!!!!!!!! He was helping someone by giving them gas on
the side of the road because their car ran out and a car hit him, i
couldnt believe it when i heard the story. he is such a great example
to me!!!!!!!!!! we should always serve people!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well I
hope all of you are doing great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I miss you all and
dont forget to choose the right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! have a
great week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!