This has most definitely been an interesting week, probably the hardest week of my mission!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok so im here in irving now and I think im only going to be here for another week and then i'll go back to Dallas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So i got here to irving last Tuesday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After district meeting in the dallas east zone the dallas zone leaders came over to the apartment to bring Elder Hein over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The assistants brought the irving car over in the morning before district meeting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So elder hein came over and we drove over to irving that late afternoon!!!!!!!!!!!! We arrived at the apartment and dropped off our stuff and then we headed out for the night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We had an appointment with a guy named Edgar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is getting baptized this wednesday and I am sooooo excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have already seen how much the gospel has changed his life and it has been great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is so excited to get baptized!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We watched Finding Faith in Christ with him and the spirit was so strong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then on wednesday morning we met with him again and we had his baptismal interview which went great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then on wednesday afternoon we went tracting so we could find some new investigators for irving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! of course i loved it because I love tracting but my companion didnt like it to much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he doesnt like tracting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hes a brand new missionary and he has had a crazy first trasnsfer because of everything that has happened with his first companion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then that night we met with a media referral that the area got earlier from the week before!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He talked to missionaries a couple years ago and he kept the pass along card and now he finally called the number!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We met with him and talked about the restoration of the church and the Book of Mormon, we used a lot of pictures which was great because the spirit was even stronger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Recently I have decided that I want to use pictures from the gospel art book more when i teach, it has really helped a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There are also really great pictures to use at the front of the book of mormon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then on thursday we had planning in the morning!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we went to get michael!!!!!!!!!!!!! Michael is a 21 year old in the irving ward and he loves to go teaching with missionaries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he basically spend the whole day with us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he needs to go on a mission!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but he went teaching with us in the afternoon which was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Since irving is right by the DFW airport there are a lot of hotels over here and some of our investigators live in the hotels permanently!!!!!!!!!!!!! So we were teaching a few people in the hotel and we found some other really great people also!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i cant believe so many people live in hotels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On friday night I had to go give a baptismal interview down in oak cliff since that is in our zone!!!!!!!!!!! we got to drive through the dallas 1 and dallas 9th wards which was great, i already miss that area so much, we also got to drive through downtown dallas which is always really cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oak cliff is a pretty scary area!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then on saturday we did some more finding and we talked to some awesome people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then church on sunday was great because i got to meet a lot of members here in irving!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is a member here in irving and his name is Alex!!!!!!!!!!!! He is one of the nicest people I have ever met!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he LOVES the missionaries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In his apartment there are tons of pictures of missionaries and his dining table has the name of every missionary that has ever walked into his apartment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There are probably over 300 names!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He even gives the missionaries that serve here in iriving his apartment key so we can stop by during the day if we ever have to go to the bathroom or if we want to get gatorade or water or something to eat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is so nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well we had lunch at his on sunday after church which was nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was a great end to a hard week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i hope all of you are doing great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope to hear from you soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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