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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!