June 18, 2012

This week was another interesting week here in Irving but it was still a lot of fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On tuesday we got to go visit one of our investigators that lives in a hotel which was a lot of fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For some reason here in irving a lot of people permanently live in hotels because there are hotels everywhere since its right by the airport!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we got to have dinner with Alex which was a lot of fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love Alex, he is such a great guy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! His love for all the missionaries is fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One wednesday we had specialized training with all the english missionaries basically all day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And let me tell you it was probably the best meeting I have ever been to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was so emotional but the spirit was so strong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I dont think I have ever cried that badly in a church meeting before, I usually never cry in church meetings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All the missionaries that are going home this transfer got to take part in it which was great!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its going to be so sad to see all these missionaries go home this summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we also go to write a letter to our parents telling them how they have helped us be the missionaries that we are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Some missionaries got to go up and read them to everyone and the spirit was so strong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its amazing to see and think about all the great examples that each one of us has had in our lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Especially Jesus Christ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh this work is just so great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then after the meeting we took the DART from richardson all the way through downtown dallas (we got to through my area that im going back to) down to oak cliff for the baptism!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Xavier was baptized on wednesday night which was so great to see!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even though i only got to teach about 4 times it was so great to see how much he has changed and the important decision that he has just made!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This Gospel is just so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There was a hail storm that night which was also scary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we drove back up to irving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On thursday we had planning day which was good, as you know i dont like weekly planning too much but we still got through it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! then we went to go visit our investigator thats in the hotel!!!!!!!!!! We are having problems because her husband is very abusive and he doesnt want her meeting with us and we dont want her to get hurt so its really hard to meet with her but she loves the church and she wants to get baptized so badly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On friday i got to do a baptismal interview for the Sisters in Grand Prairie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love doing baptismal interviews!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its so great to see the people answer the questions and I always ask them to bear their testimony to me after the questions are done and they always have such strong testimonies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love my job as a missionary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On saturday i got to do another baptismal interview for the Sisters again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this one was for a girl thats 15 years old and she has such a strong testimony also!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love the Spirit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was great being in the irving ward on sudnay for church and then afterwards we got to go to the YSA ward down in duncanville so we could see Xavier get confrimed which was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My assignment here in irving is done so I get to go back to dallas 1 and dallas 9 now and finish training Elder Saenger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited to go back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But it has been great here in Irving, Im going to miss some of the members, especially Alex!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love being a missionary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Gospel is so great and the great thing is that it is so simple!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Have a great week everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!