October 29, 2012

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am excited for halloween!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love seeing everyones halloween decorations that they have put up while we go tracting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! some people here have some pretty great decorations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well a lot of change has happened this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got a new companion and both the spanish missionaries in the wards got new companions so there are a lot of new elders in the dallas 1st and 9th wards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So on tuesday we drove up to transfers and I got my new companion, his name is Elder Stufflebeam and he is from Cedar Hills, Utah and he is fresh from the mtc!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We got to go tracting in the afternoon and then we had dinner at the Asays which was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 Afterwards we had a lesson with Jaime and Caridad and they are doing awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We talked with them about obedience and why God gives us commandments!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They still really want to get baptized!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On Wednesday we had district meeting in the morning which went great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We talked about ways we can encourage the members of our wards to do missionary work and how we can seek for referrals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then in the afternoon we got to do some service which was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we had dinner at the Alders which is always so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love that family so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then at night time we got to meet with Beatrice and invite her to the halloween party on friday for the ninth ward!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thursday was another great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We had lunch in the afternoon with Brother Smith which went great!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we got to do some tracting in Highland Park which is always good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we had dinner with the Son family and they are another family that I love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Friday was a great day too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We did some more service in the morning and then afterwards we got to teach BJ about the ten commandments and about praying and reading the scriptures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She really really wants to come closer to Jesus Christ, its just hard for her to come to church because she is in a nursing home so we are going to have to drop her but we will still see her when we go there and do service!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Us teaching her now will help her in the spirit world and I know that she will get baptized there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then after that we did some tracting and we went to go and heart attack Jared and Becka since they have been going through so much lately!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We wrote a bunch of notes on some sticky notes and put them up all over their door and we left some chocolate and then we rang the doorbell and ran away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they are great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then after that it was time for the halloween party in the ninth ward!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We got there 30 minutes early so we could practice our dance with the spanish missionaries for the talent show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The party was so great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We had some investigators there and a lot of less active people that we invited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We did a dance in the talent show with the spanish missionaries which was sooooo much fun hahaha. The ward thought it was hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the talent show was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The 9th ward has so much talent, i love the 9th ward sooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the final act was with some Sisters from the relief society!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They were called the plungettes and they did a dance with plungers, it was hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was a lot of fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On saturday we got to do some service with the stake since it was the day of service for the church!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is a cemetery right by downtown dallas called oakland cemetery and its over 60 acres!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So we got to help cut down branches and rake leaves and just fix it up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There are people buried there from the 1800's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And sometimes we would cut down a bush and there would be a tombstone under it, its so sad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!But it looked so much better after our stake was done, it was great!!!!!!!!!!! Sunday was a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was looking forward to church all week and it was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! About a month ago a member from coppell called us and told us he got our number from President Durrant!!!!!!!!!!! He has a business partner that teaches sunday school at a presbyterian church and he wanted missionaries to come to his class that morning and talk about missionary work, it was a great experience!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and all the youth asked really great questions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we got to drive right over back to our church and we made it just in time for 9th ward sacrament!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then after church we had dinner at the Hatch's, i love that family so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bishop Hatch is a great bishop, hes the bishop in the 1st ward!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we did a lot of contacting and tracting and it was a great end to the week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope everyone has a great halloween!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I miss all of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Have a great week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!