August 20, 2012

Another awesome week here in texas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So on monday after we were done emailing and shopping we met the youth from the 1 and 9 wards at the church and had a lot of fun and played games and the spanish missionaries came too, it was the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then on tuesday we had district meeting and I got to go on exchanges with Elder Sorensen!!!!!!!!!!!! He came over to my area which was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he is such a great missionary and so enthusiastic, i love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Except for a majority of the day I had to do the stake presidents report because thats when the spanish zone leaders wanted to do it!!!!!!!!!!!!! I felt so bad for Elder Sorensen because he just had to sit there and watch while we worked on the stake presidents report!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we got to have dinner at Hermana Villalobos house, i love her so much, she is so nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then afterwards Christian came teaching with us!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was so great to have him teach with us!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We had an appointment with a lady we found about two weeks ago but she wasnt there so instead we met with Tim since he lives in those same apartments!!!!!!!!!!!! We caught him as soon as he was walking in his apartment which was perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We got to go in and read 3 Nephi 11 with him!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love that chapter so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is one of my favorite chapters in the Book of Mormon!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It just makes me so excited for the opportuniy that I will get to hug Jesus and personally thank him for everything that He did for us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Christian did so great!!!!!!!!! He was answering all of Tims questions and teaching him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is already a great missionary and he has been a member for less than a week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It just was a great example to me that any member of the church can be a great missionary no matter who you are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Lord is there helping you 100 percent of the way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On wednesday we exchanged back and then I had to work a little bit more on the stake presidents report and then it was finished, i was so happy it was done, that thing is so stressful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At night we got to teach the montoyas about the ten commandments which was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the oldest daughter, Angelica, really wants to get baptized!!!!!!!!!! The mom has been less active for a while but she is wanting to come back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they just wont come to church!!!!!!!!!! i think they might be scared so we are trying to help them and members are trying to help them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On thursday we got to meet with this man who just started investigating the church but he lives down in houston but he works up here in downtown dallas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he comes here every two weeks and he wants us to teach him all the lessons before the missionaries down in houtston go over to his house and teach his family!!!!!!!!!!!!! he is a really nice guy but im not sure if he is investigating the church for the right reasons!!!!!!!!!!! the first question he asked us was "if i get baptized in the church can i become the mormon leader???" So we are working with him and trying to help him understand the importance of Jesus Christ and our church!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we got to meet with Jared and Becka that night which was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love them so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We answered all of her last questions before her baptism and then we started preparing for it on saturday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Saturday was such a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was Becka's baptism!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but it was also sad because it was the day we had to say goodbye to christian!!!!!!!!!!!! but I'll talk about Becka first!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So her parents came and all of Jared's family came and they were all so happy that Jared is now back at church and that Becka was getting baptized!!!!!!!!!!!!! There were SOOOO many people there, like over 50!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the service was so great!!!!!!!!! Jareds family gave a musical number which made everyone feel the spirit so strongly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then at the end of the baptism Jared's dad came up to Elder Saenger and I and told us that our mission is now complete and how happy he was that we got to teach Jared and Becka and help Becka get baptized!!!!!!!!!! It was such a great moment of my mission!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know I have a lot more work to do but that baptism was definitely a highlight of my mission!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we had to go over and say goodbye to Christian, it was so sad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but the young mens president in his new ward has already called him and apparently there are over 30 youth in his new ward so that will be great for him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he is now off to colorado!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On sunday morning we had the meeting with the Stake president to go over the stake presidents report!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was one of the most intimidating meetings i have ever been in!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sometimes i think i just need to keep my mouth shut haha i think i talked too much during it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I was happy that it went ok!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And then we had church right after which was a relief, i love the dallas 1 and dallas 9th wards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love being a missionary and seeing all these miracles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it is just so great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! have a great week everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!