August 13, 2012

Well this was most definitely an exciting week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On tuesday we had the mission olympics which was soooooo much fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We all went to the carrollton stake center because thats where the olympics/specialized training was going to be at!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was cool to be back in carrollton for a little bit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We had it with all the missionaries that are in the city!!!!!!!!!!! the out east missionaries had their own olympics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We had events like speed walking and who could do the most pushups and jumping jacks and scripture memory games and stuff like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was a lot of fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We got the most contacts on the day we had to count our contacts and we got the gold medal for that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was a great day and we had a great training afterwards about the book of mormon and about this runner that pushed himself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He did something that no one in the world thought it was possible to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and we can do the same thing as missionaries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We can see miracles that no one else in the world can even think of seeing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then after the meeting we went over to the mission office to get some stuff and then we went right back to our apartment to get ready for the night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its so nice living so close to the mission office!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we had Christians baptismal interview that night!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course he passed with flying colors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A lot of our appointments fell through this week which was very sad but we did get to have a baptism which i'll talk about later!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On friday we got to go on exchanges with the zone leaders down in oak cliff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got to go down there with Elder Ricks and Elder Crockett came up to our area with Elder Saenger so he could do the baptismal interview for Becka!!!!!!!!!! Her baptism is this saturday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But anyways, Oak cliff is so scary!!!!!!!!!! I have heard so many things about it and now I got to spend the day down there!!!!!!!!!! Oh my gosh I was scared to even get out off the car!!!!!!!!!!!!! But it humbled me to see how people can live in such poor conditions and still be happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We didnt really get to do too much tracting because the missionaries down there arent really supposed to go knocking on doors!!!!!!!!!!! But we did get to visit a lot of great and nice people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And while i was there I got to do three baptismal interviews!!!!!!!!!!!! I love doing baptismal interviews!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then on saturday morning we had to exchange back bright and early so we could get ready for our busy day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We had coordination meeting in the morning at our ward mission leaders house and then we got to drive out to mesquite so I could do a baptismal interview for the sisters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was great to meet this investigator because the sisters talk about her all the time and she was so nice and you can see how the gospel has changed her life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then after the interview we had to rush back to our area so we could get the baptism all set up!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The spanish missionaries were nice enough to go to the church for us and turn the font on so it could be filled up in time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we had Christians baptism!!!!!!!!!!! It was so great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got to speak which was really nice, I love Christian so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! His mom came and his grandparents who live all the way up in oklahoma came!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was such a special day!!!!!!!!!! His mom also got desserts and food for everyone at the baptism which was super nice of her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The spirit was there so strongly!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so thankful that the priesthood has been restored back here on earth for all of us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then on sunday Christian was confirmed which was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was so spiritual and all the members in the Dallas 1st ward were so happy for him!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love being a missionary and seeing all these miracles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We also get to see Becka get baptized this saturday which is going to be so great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Have a great week everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!