September 24, 2012

Well this week was very eventful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I forgot to bring my planner to SMU today so my email isnt going to be very long because i cant remember everything off the top off my head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But on tuesday i got to go on exchanges with Elder Snow which was so much fun!!!!!!!!!!!! It would be so great if we were companions!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is from Huntington Beach!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was so much fun contacting people and when they would ask where we were from we both could say southern california!!!!!!!!!!!!! We even met with some members and they told us that we need to tell our mission president to put us together because they have never seen a companionship where both of them are from southern california!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We also got to meet with Jared and Becka that night and teach The Restoration to start the new member lessons and it was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The spirit was so strong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love teaching about the restoration of the church!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Becka also got a calling this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She is the young womens personal progress advisor, she is going to do great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All the young women already love her!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited for her!!!!!!!!!!! We also got to meet with Christian this week and he had his baptismal interview!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited for him, I cant wait for this sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is so excited to get baptized and he is going to be able to baptize his son in a few weeks which is going to be even more great!!!!!!!!!!!!! We had specialized training on friday which was a great meeting!!!!!!!!!!! We practiced a lot with contacting people which was really fun because thats my favorite thing to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love tracting and contacting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yesterday was also a great day at church!!!!!!!!!!! It was the primary program in the ninth ward!!!!!!!!!!! I love that ward so much, it is so multi cultural!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It has really helped me to learn about how all cultures can get along with each other!!!!!!!!!!!! The ward has such a big heart for everyone, it is so great!!!!!!!!!!!! I love serving in a bilingual ward!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Im so sorry this email is so short!!!!!!!!! Im so mad at myself for forgetting my planner today!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope all of you have a great week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

September 17, 2012

Well this week has been another great week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It seemed a lot longer than some of the other weeks but it was still good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On tuesday i got my new companion!!!!!!!!!! He is brand new and his name is Elder Benard and he is from Salt Lake City!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is a brand new missionary and so far he is settling in well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so happy that I got to stay here in Dallas 1/Dallas 9, i love this area sososososo much!!!!!!!!!!! Its the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On tuesday we had the new missionary meeting in the morning which went great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we got to get back to our area and i showed Elder Benard all around!!!!!!!!!!!! We went tracting for a little bit and then we got to meet with Rosalinda, she is the best, I know i talk about her a lot!!!!!!!!!!!! Then after that we had dinner over at the Hardens and then we had an appointment with Jaime and Caridad!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are doing great!!!!!!!!!!! We got to set a marriage date with them for November 10 and then they can get baptized!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They love the church so much and they have been coming every week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On thursday we had weekly planning in the morning which was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i got to tell Elder Benard about all of our investigators and more about the area!!!!!!!!! Then we went contacting in the afternoon which i LOVE doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then that night we got to meet with Jaime and read a chapter from the book of mormon with him which was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The spirit is so strong when we meet with him and he really has such a great desire to learn more!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we got to meet with Beatrice and she is great too!!!!!!!!!!!! On friday evening we got to meet with Christian cooper!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love him so much he is great!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is getting baptized the end of this month!!!!!!!!!!!!! We got to teach him the plan of salvation and the spirit was so strong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love that we are able to have answers to all those questions!!!!!!!!! On saturday I got to see Elder Seager!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He went home on saturday but he stopped by to say goodbye to me and i loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sunday was a great day at church!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I realized that I havent really said anything so far about what i love about texas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love barbeque now and i also love fried okra!!!!!!!!!! i never had it before until i got here and it is so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I have started to say yall sometimes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well I hope that you all have a great week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I miss you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

September 10, 2012

GUESS WHAT GUESS WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM STAYING HERE IN DALLAS 1 AND DALLAS 9!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love it here so much!!!!!!!! i want to stay here for the rest of my mission!!!!!!!!!!!!! and im training a new missionary again which will be fun!!!!!!!!!!! Well tuesday was a fun day!!!!!!!!!!! it was elder Saengers birthday!!!!!!!!!! We went to downtown dallas for lunch which was a lot of fun!!!!!!!!!!!! and then we got to teach some great lessons to some of our investigators!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On wednesday we got to go to the temple which was so great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love the temple so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we only get to go every six months which makes it that much better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After our endowment session we went to get lunch in the cafeteria and the temple president was there and he bought us lunch which was so nice of him!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so thankful for that!!!!!!!!!!!! Then afterwards i got to go on exchanges with Elder Taylor which was so much fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We got to meet with one of our investigators John that night!!!!!!!!!! He is the one that went to the temple wanting to worship with us so he came to church the next sunday!!!!!!!!!!! But anways we got to teach him the plan of salvation and it was so great to see how he was feeling the spirit and how many of his questions got answered from the plan of salvation!!!!!!!!!!!! We are so lucky to have that plan and it answers so many of our questions that we have about life!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so grateful that Heavenly Father has created this great plan for us!!!!!!!!!!! On friday night we got to meet with the cooper family!!!!!!!!! Sister cooper is a member of the church but her husband is not!!!!!!!!!!!!! He has already come to church twice and he is doing so great!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We got to share the message of the restoration with him on friday night and he brought the pamphlet with him to church and was showing it to everyone and telling everyone how great it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love him so much, he is so great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am so excited for his baptism which is happening in a couple of weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! then saturday was transfer calls night and i found out im staying here which is so exciting!!!!!!!!!!!! Then on sunday night there was a back to school fireside that was organized by Preisdent Durrant for the whole dallas metroplex and i was invited to speak at it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There were so many youth there, like over 1000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! there were people sitting all the way to the back of the gym!!!!!!!!!!! it was a great fireside on how to get the youth to invite their friends to church!!!!!! We need to get one of those firesides in newport beach!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sorry that this email is so short and scattered this week!!!!!!!!!!!! E mails are always hard for me to do on the first week of the transfer!!!!!!!!!!!!! ill tell you all about my brand new companion next week!!!!!!!!!! I am excited to get another brand new missionary!!!!!!!!!!!!!! have a great week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i miss you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

September 3, 2012 ( Labor Day )

Well this week has been very interesting, a lot of meetings and reports which I dont like very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On tuesday night we got to meet with Jaime and Caridad which was great!!!!!!!!!! They are doing so good except they didnt come to church yesterday!!!!!!!!!!! We got to teach them the word of wisdom and they really like it a lot and they said they are going to try very hard to follow it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then on wednesday I had to go to zone leader council which was basically all day, i was about to die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hate sitting inside for that long!!!!!!!!!!! I would rather be outside working!!!!!!!!!!! But it was a very good meeting and I got to learn a lot!!!!!!!!!!!! we did some great role plays and we talked about some things that our mission can improve on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But then when i got home that night we got to help this lady move out of her apartment that isnt a member of the church!!!!!!!! she called the bishops phone looking for help to move!!!!!!!!!! So we got to go over there and help her, she is a very nice lady but she isnt very interested in learning about the church!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then on thursday i had to work on the stak presidents report with the spanish zone leaders which took all morning but i am so happy that we got it done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we got to go on exchanges with Lakewood!!!!!!!!!!! I got to spend the day with Elder Christensen which was great!!!!!!!! He is such a great missionary!!!!!!!!!! On friday we got to go tracting in highland park which i love doing!!!!!!!!!!!! On saturday we had a baptism in the ward which was great!!!!!!! the spanish missionaries were teaching this girl for a long time!!!!!!!!!!! and she finally got baptized!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Im sorry that this email is so short!!!!!!!!!!!! I dont have much time!!!!!!!!!!!! But i miss all of you and I hope that you have a great week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

August 27, 2012

This week has been a great week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On tuesday I got to spend the day over in the Lake Highlands and Garland 1 wards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was cool to be in that area for the day but I missed my area, thats one thing I dont like about exchanges!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I got to spend the day with Elder Shuman and he is an awesome missionary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He was serving out in Hemphill for 6 months and then he came her to the city to our district, so this is his second area!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We got to have a lot of fun tracting and talking to people and it was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We got to teach some lessons that evening and that was great too!!!!!!!!!!!!! We got to share the story of the restoration of the church with someone and it was so cool to see their immediate change and to see the spirit working with them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love seeing all these miracles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On thursday we had a meeting with President Durrant and Sister Durrant which was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!! President Durrants son just got back from his mission so we got to hear a little bit from him!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have another meeting this next week, I do like going to meetings but somtimes i just wish that we can be out doingn normal missionary work, I dont like being inside all day at a meeting!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then at night time we got to meet with the Son family and they are doing great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love them a lot, we just need to really help them with the Word of Wisdom, because the kids understand it, just the parents dont!!!!!!!!! I wish we could speak vietnamese!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On friday we got to have a full day of tracting which was great!!!!!!!!!!!!! We got to talk to a lot of people and give a lot of cards out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hopefully some people will take a look at the website!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then on saturday morning we got to meet with this man named Nano!!!!!!!!!!! The carrollton elders texted us earlier that week and told us that he came to church up there and he lives in our area, so we didnt know too much about him!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So we met him at the hotel he lives at and guess what?!?!?!?!?!?!!? He just moved here from spain about a month ago and he is so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He was already taught all the lessons by the missionaries in spain and he wants to get baptized!!!!!!!!!!!!! he still has all the pamphlets which is so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He looks exactly like Carl which is also so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its so great to see someone that appreciates the gospel so much and is not even a member of the church!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know this church is true with all my heart and I just love it so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Jaime and Caridad came to church yesterday which was so great!!!!!!!!!!! I love them so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was so great to see how much they were loving church!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sunday was a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rosalinda was having a bad day because she didnt go to church so we went over there for a little bit to see her and Tiny, her dog, ran away which is so sad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is the only other person that stays there with her and she loves him so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Today we are putting up signs everywhere in case someone has found him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love all the help we get to do for everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Missionary work is the best thing ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope that everyone has a great week and everyone that is going back to school, have fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I miss you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!