March 12, 2012

This week was a great week except it went by super
fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On tuesday we had a multi district
meeting with our zone in the morning which was great!!!!!!!!! We went
over how we can be more effective with our planning and it went
great!!!!!!!!!! Planning is one of my favorite things to do because we
get to focus on organizing things and we get to plan for
miracles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then afterwards we all had lunch
which was great!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we had dinner with familia de
aguilar which was great!!!!!!!!! I always love eating at their house
on tuesday nights!!!!!!!!!!! You guys are never going to believe where
we went after dinner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We went to the Jehovah
Witness kingdom hall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A jehovah witness has
been studying with one of the less active members in one of our wards
that we have been working with!!!!!!!!!! She invited us to come and
she said she would come to our church if we go and check it
out!!!!!!!!!!! So we went that night with some other
missionaries!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of the sister missionaries in the zone
has been really wanting to go so the sisters came also!!!!!!!!!!! It
was very interesting!!!!!!!!!!! They do a lot of roleplays just like
how we do!!!!!!!!!!!!! As soon as the meeting was over and we stood
up, all of the members of the congregation came rushing up to
us!!!!!!!!!!!!! They started talking with us and telling us all about
their religion!!!!!!!!!!!! I invited a lot of them to church on sunday
but they all said that they were not able to go to other church's, it
didnt make any sense because we were there at their church!!!!!!!!!!!!
On wednesday we were in dallas all day because we had a new missionary
meeting that all the trainers and their new missionaries were
at!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love having meetings
with President Durrant because we learn so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Since we
are in the city now, we get to take the train to all the meetings in
dallas!!!!!!!!!!! most of the missionaries that are in the city take
the train to meetings!!!!!!!!! We had to ride our bikes really fast in
the morning because we almost missed our train!!!!!!!!!!!!! When we
got out of the meeting we missed our bus to take us to the train
station so we had to wait awhile for another bus!!!!!!!!!!! I love
taking the DART, its the best because you get to talk to everyone on
there!!!!!!!!!!!! Then on thursday we got to meet with Marcus and he
is still doing great!!!!!!!!!!!! On saturday we got to have studies in
the morning with President Blake (carrollton stake president) which
was so uplifting!!!!!!!!!!!!! We talked a lot about Alma and his
missionary work and a lot about how the Lord has us in the place that
we are supposed to be in!!!!!!!! It made me feel really happy because
I really love Carrollton and I know that I was meant to come
here!!!!!!!!!! Even though there arent too many baptisms here and its
sometimes hard to find investigators, I still love it here!!!!!!!!!!!
I know that the Lord is guiding me in my work and He will lead me to
the people that are ready!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then after studies we had a
great day planned except it started pouring rain
outside!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats one of the disadvantages of being a
bike missionary, rain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At least all of
our appointments were pretty close to our house so we could walk to
our appoiontments with our umbrellas!!!!!!!!!!!! Its not too fun
riding bikes in the rain!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It rained again on sunday but
we were in church all sunday morning and afternoon so it was
ok!!!!!!!!!!! We had family night at the Starks house last night for
an hour which was great!!!!!!!!!! We got to share a message with the
entire extended family and a lot of them are not members of the
church!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we went to go and visit some people last night
and then came home for bedtime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was a
great week and we got to visit with a lot of awesome
people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I aboslutely love being a
missionary and I am so thankful for this
opportunity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All of us are able to have the spirit
guide our lives, all we need to do is to ask for it and to be worthy
to have it with us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love you all and I hope you
have a great week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!