February 6, 2012

Well this week was definitely another great week down here in
Carrollton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so thankful for the opportunity i get
to serve the Lord every single day!!!!!!!!!!!! On tuesday we got to
have a multi district meeting with our whole zone which was
nice!!!!!!!!!!! Since the Carrollton stake isnt very big compared to
the other stakes in the mission we get to get together with our zone
every week!!!!!!!!! And we all get to study together on Monday
mornings!!!!!!!!!!!! Since tuesday was Hermana Reina's year mark we
went out to lunch after district meeting to celebrate!!!!!!!!!!! We
ate at this restaurant called Abuelos which was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Even though Im serving an english speaking mission I still get to be
around so many hispanic people so im learning a lot of spanish
also!!!!!!!!!!! Then after lunch we just did some tracting around the
stake center which was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! It was sooooo mega hot on
tuesday, it felt like it was summer again!!!!!!!!!!! But now its back
to being cold, the weather here in texas is wacky!!!!!!!!!!!!! On
tuesday night we were riding our bikes back home and we stopped in
this parking lot because Elder Hedberg needed to get something out of
his backpack!!!!!!!!!!!! It turns out there was a mcdonalds in the
parking lot and there was a huge picture of a strawberry milkshake in
the window!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (dont worry there is a cool missionary
experience from this story) I was wanting a milkshake all day!!!!!!!!!
and we didnt feel like locking up our bikes to go inside so guess what
we did!!?!?!?!!?!? I came up with the idea to go through the drive
through on our bikes!!!!!!!!!!! Since the speaker thing picked up the
metal on our bikes the lady asked what we wanted and I checked to make
sure it was all right if we went through on our bikes and she said it
was fine!!!!!!!!!!!!! So when i rode up to the window to pay and get
my milkshake everyone in mcdonalds was laughing and they all said that
they love mormon missionaries now!!!!!!!!! We passed out a ton of pass
along cards and they all said they are going to check out the website
and we even got a refferral for the singles ward!!!!!!!!!!!! It ended
up being a great night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then on wednesdsay it
ended up being cold outside again!!!!!!!!!!!! We have really been
working on finding people lately, even though we arent having too much
success I know that the Lord has people prepared for us and we will
find them when they are ready!!!!!!!!!!! Thats one thing thats
different about being closer to the city!!!!!!!!! The people arent as
open to hearing about the gospel as they were in my last
area!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On friday night we got to stop by Robert's
warehouse with our ward mission leader and go and visit with
him!!!!!!!!! He is doing great except he still has word of wisdom
problems!!!!!!!!!!! Our ward mission leader went by and dropped him
off some clothes on saturday so that he can have some clean clothes to
wear!!!!!!!!!!! I love teaching the gospel to people!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even
though knocking on doors all day doesnt sound too fun, it is soooo
much fun, i LOVE tracting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are working hard to
find people to teach and I know that the Lord will put us in their
path, we just need to work hard and be patient!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I
have really been focusing on patience these past few weeks!!!!!!!!!!
The Lord has a much different version of time then we do!!!!!!!! We
want things to happen fast but we really need to be patient and let
the Lord allow things to happen when He feels its time to
happen!!!!!!!!! I hope all of you have a great week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Remember to keep Jesus Christ on your minds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!