This week has been a little slower than my weeks in my last area. I am still trying to get to know the area and find out where the heck i am at.. i have only been here for 2 weeks now and i feel so lost.. but most missionaries do when they go to a new area! Tuesday morning we went back to The Engels house (the one who let us email) and we mowed her lawn for her! and then she took us out to taco bell:). later that day we dropped by a less active member named Melissa Turnbow and she is a convert of about 5 or so years ago and is wanting to get back to church and back to the temple! We had a lesson with our investigator Emma Drummond that night and she is 9 years old. We set a baptism date with her last week for June 2nd and she is super excited for that! We went over the baptismal interview questions with her and she had no problem answering all the questions correctly!
On Wednesday we drove into Dallas for a Zone Conference and that was really fun! Instead of sitting down in the same seat for 6 hours and listening to lessons and all that jazz.. we were put into groups and we went from class to class learning about different stuff.. The main theme for this zone conference was Obedience and i think that is something every missionary can work on haha! It was also fun because i got to see a lot of other missionaries that i haven't seen in a while! one being Elder Sinclair my trainer! He was telling me that i need to go to BYU-IDAHO after the mission with him! I have no idea what i am doing after the mission yet! i still have 13 months to go! Apparently my companion told president that my talk with family was a little longer than usual and so president talked with me and scolded me:/! I'm not the kind of missionary that is going to tell on another missionary but whatever!
Thursday was weekly planning and then we went tracting for a while on a rich street.. i dont know why my companion picked that street but no one was willing to listen to us! not humble at all! We had a lesson with another one of our investigators that night named Tina! Apparently she has been meeting with the missionaries for a while and she knows the book of mormon is true but she works on Sundays and can not get it off! So i dont know what to do with her.. Friday was an alright day but kind of slow until our lesson with Ryle Burch! his name is pronounced Riley but spelled different! He is 13 and his mom is a member and they just moved to texas like 3 months ago from Colorado! Ryle met with the missionaries up there and is now meeting with us down here:) He wants to be baptized and we set a baptism date for him on June 16th! It was a struggle at first trying to get him to commit because he was shooting for a baptism towards the end of the year or into 2014! That was a little strange!
Saturday was such a weird day! So like i said.. We went to visit the lady in the Insane Asylum Hospital which is in Terrell Texas!! Terrell is like the Jacksonville of my area now..(The Ghetto)! We first had to Register to see her and then after we went in to get her.. her nurse told us that we had 3 hours to visit if we wanted to and there was no way i was gonna stay with this CRAZY for that long! So after meeting Kim Henley is her name! we walked out side and we asked her how long she had been in the church and she said her whole life.. and she said that she had a son that served a mission in Brazil.. and we asked her how long ago was that and she said.. well hes 24 right now.. and we didnt say anything because we figured she was calculating in her head how long ago he served and then she said.. This Visit is over! and so we walked her back to where we picked her up and this guy had to come unlock the door with a key and then we left! I felt so weird and creeped out after that very strange visit! We visited with a member that lives a couple blocks away from that place and we told him about our visit and he said that they hear sirens go off every now and then.. and when they go off he says that means someone is trying to escape! That is Creepy! So i also found out that the actor Jamie Foxx is from Terrell too! That was pretty cool! The whole rest of the day we were running into creepy people and i just felt super weird the rest of the day!
We had Stake Conference on Sunday and now the Forney ward is in a new stake that just got made! How many missionaries can say that they serve in 2 wards and 2 seperate stakes?? not many!:) But nothing too exciting happened later on that day.. apparently there was supposed to be an Eclipse but it was super cloudy so we missed it:(! But that was my exciting week for you:)
