Wow this week has been super busy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On tuesday we had district meeting in the morning and then afterwards we did some tracting which was really good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We went tracting in kind of a crazy neighborhood haha everyone was african american!!!!!!!!!!!!! In our area there are some really nice parts like highland park and university park but then there are also some really ghetto neighborhoods which makes it fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We talked to some great people and introduced the Book of Mormon to a lot of people which was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then after that we got to meet with Rosalinda and she is doing awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! Then that night we got to meet with our Karen family, I dont think I have talked about them before!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are teaching this family from Thailand except they dont speak thai, they speak a language called Karen which is similar to Burmese!!!!!!!!!! They just moved here from Thailand a year ago!!!!!!!!!!!! Most of the people in the apartment building that they live in only speak Karen and Burmese!!!!!!!!!!! I guess they have formed their own community!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They love us so much and we love them except the only problem is that we cant speak Karen and they dont know english very well at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have been trying to do the best we can with the Spirit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They dont make the Book of Mormon in Karen or Burmese which is sad!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The mission office did find a Testimony of the prophet Joseph Smith in Burmese which is great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The wife can read thai so we gave them a Thai Book of Mormon that the wife has been reading from every night and translating for them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love them so much!!!!!!!!!! They keep bring over all the Karen friends when we come over so their apartment is filled with like 20 peeople when we come over to teach them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is a missionary in the Dallas 9th ward that just got home from his mission and he served in Minnesota and he said that they had two Karen speaking missionaries in their mission because I guess there is a group of them over in Minnesota!!!!!!!!!!! So we are going to somehow get in contact with those missionaries!!!!!!!!!!!! They are the only two karen speaking missionaries in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On wendesday Elder Olvera had to go to a meeting all day with Elder Reed (one of the spanish speaking missionaries in the dallas 1 ward) so Elder Reed's companion spent the day with Elder Saenger and I which was great!!!!!!!!! We talked to some great people!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then that night we got to teach Cantrina and she is doing awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On friday we went to the mission office in the morning because we needed to pick up the Burmese pamphlets, its great being so close to the mission office!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Elder Olvera went on exchanges to the Lake Highlands ward so it was just Elder Saenger and I!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well while we were at the mission office I got some very interesting news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! President Durrant told me im going to have to go to irving for two weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!! There was a missionary that just went home about a week ago because he has been having stomach problems!!!!!!! So his companion went into a trio with the Dallas zone leaders and that made us think that nothing was going to happen to our trio!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well President Durrant told me he wants me to go over to irving to finish training Elder Hein and so that the area can get some work done in it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But after two weeks when the transfer is done i get to come back here over to my area!!!!!!!!!!!! This is going to be interesting because I dont know irving at all and neither does Elder Hein because he has only been there for three weeks!!!!!!!!!!!! But we are going to work work work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This will be an interesting part of my mission!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so thankful to be a missionary!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love it here in Texas and I have learned so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope all of you have awesome weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can do all things through Christ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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