April 23, 2012

This week has been a great week and I loved every second of
it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On tuesday we went tracting in this
apartment complex across the street from the high school and we met
this really nice guy that just got out of jail the day
before!!!!!!!!!! He invited us inside and we got to teach him about
the Book of Mormon and about Joseph Smith and about prophets and he
was really interested!!!!!!!!!!! He asked some great questions and he
wants us to come back over next week and Im excited for that!!!!!!!!!!
We also got to talk a lot to his next door neighbor!!!!!!!!!!!!! She
used to have missionaries come over to her house about ten years ago
except she said they would just come over and hang out!!!!!!!!!!!!! I
told her that we would be happy to come over and teach her but not to
just hang out!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Elder Tuma doesnt go over to anyones house
to hang out!!!!!!!!!!! Im on the Lords time!!!!!!!!!!! She told us she
wants us to also teach her daughter when we come back over this week
to teach her neighbor so that will be exciting!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wednesday
was a very interesting day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I went on exchanges with
Elder Nunez which was really good!!!!!!!!! I went over to his area
which is my area also except just spanish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We went to go
visit some people which was fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Since being here in
Carrollton my spanish from high school has come back!!!!!!!!!!! I can
understand about 80% of the conversations and i can read spanish, i
just cant speak haha. I know that its the spirit helping me
out!!!!!!!!!! We got to have dinner and then afterwards I was supposed
to have an interview with his investigator for baptism!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But when the investigator met us at the church, Elder Nunez got a call
from one of the members in the Sunbeck branch and they said that they
had a friend at Parklind hospital that needed a blessing!!!!!!!!!!!
Well Parklind is all the way in downtown dallas and it was about 7:30
at night already!!!!!!!!!!!! We got permission to go over there and of
course I was freaking out because I didnt think we were going to make
it back in time!!!!!!!!!!!! Well we got to the hospital and when we
were walking through the hallway to find the room, this man came
running out of a room to talk to us and tell us his wife needed a
blessing!!!!!!!!!!! So we went in there and gave her a blessing and
then we got back out to the hallway and this nurse came up to us and
told us that he wants missionaries to come over to his house!!!!!!!!!
So we gave him the information so he could get in contact with the
missionaries where he lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we finally got to the
room and it was already nine o clock!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So we gave her the
blessing, she wasnt a member, she was catholic, i gave the blessing in
spanish which was really cool!!!!!!!!!! Then we rushed back to the car
(Juan, the one who was supposed to get interviewed, took us to the
hospital) and we didnt leave the hospital until 9:30 and I was already
starting to hyperventilate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So we got back to the
church and it was like 9:50 and we still had to ride our bikes back
home and we didnt get home until 10:15 and i was so stressed out and I
was freaking out!!!!!!!!!! I called President Durrant the next morning
and he told me that I have no reason to feel horrible about
it!!!!!!!!!!! He helped me a lot!!!!!!!!! Then on thursday we had
planning and we got to meet with Marcus and he is doing
great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On friday we met with Brother Karlovich and he is
doing great, he even came to church on Sunday which was really
exciting!!!!!!!!!!!!! And then on friday night we got to meet with the
Morenos and the Robledos!!!!!!!!!!! Sister Robledo and her son is
getting baptized in two weeks, i am so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is
going to be so exciting to see a mom and a son get baptized together,
the spirit is going to be so strong!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then saturday was a
very special day!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was Dominiques baptism!!!!!!!!!!!
Elder Byington and I knocked on his door a couple months ago and we
got to teach him a lesson and then we handed him over to the YSA
missionaries since he is 21!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to serve in a YSA ward
so badly!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love teaching people that age!!!!!!!!!!!! He
baptism was so great!!!!!!!!! He was so happy and the spirit was so
strong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then afterwards we took the DART down to
farmers branch and we went tracting around there and got to talk to
some great people!!!!!!!!!!! Sister Moreno and Sister Robledo came to
bring us drinks which was really cool!!!!!!!!!!! They got me horchata,
they knew it was my favorite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sunday was a really good
day!!!!!!!!!!!! We got to talk to some really great people and the
week ended great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This week was very good and we are
seeing so many miracles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so thankful for
this opportunity that I get to be a
missionary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I
hope all of you have an awesome week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!