So my week was pretty full of fun and exciting stuff! My companion woke up Tuesday morning and could not speak at all.. He lost his voice and it was gone for 3 days! So during those 3 days i was doing all the Teaching, Talking at dinner appointments and sharing messages with everyone we see and talk to! Tuesday night we had our last lesson with Emma Drummond! I taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ to her and i say i taught because my companion was speechless haha! After that lesson we stopped by a part-member family that i haven't met yet and instead of getting to know the non-member husband... His daughter kept talking to me and distracting me like saying.. look at my bruise and look at my toes and look at how much money my dad has in his wallet.. it was super annoying and i was a little irritated! ha!Wednesday Elder Howell wasn't feeling too well so we stayed in the apartment till about 2.. and then we went to visit Sister Melissa Turnbow who was recently inactive and has started coming back to church and now working her way back to the temple!
Thursday was weekly planning and after that we went down to a part of our area called Kaufman. We stopped by a family called the JJackson's and i guess she is a babysitter and when we walked up to the door a lady that was dropping her son off to be babysat came to the door and told sister Jackson's daughter that she would handle this.. and told us.. "i am spirit filled and i am a Pentecostal and you guys can go somewhere else" so i told her "That's great! and we are here to see the Jackson's not you!" So Leona the daughter said that her mom would be home in 5 minutes and we could try back then! So we came back 5 minutes later and had a good chat with Sis. Jackson while that lady gave us the stare down on the couch! it was pretty funny! After like 10 minutes the lady left to work.. i guess she didn't know that the Jackson's were LDS! I ended up giving the daughter Leona a blessing of comfort cause she is going to Brazil with the foreign exchange student that lives with them.. The hardest part of the blessing was the daughters name. (Leona Jean Shanda Masheek Jackson) Crazy! As we got to know Sis. Jackson we found out that she is a convert and she loves the missionaries and the funny part of all of that is.. Her name is Beverly and her daughters nick-name is Pookie!!
Kaufman is the only part of our area that has a Wells Fargo so we stopped in so i could cash a check and there systems were down they couldn't look up my account number since i have no idea what it was.. so she asked me if she could call anyone that would know and i told her my Brother Shea since he is a Wells Fargo Personal Banker! so she calls up Shea and he got my number and of course he wanted to talk to me so i got to talk to him for a couple seconds! that was way cool! Friday we had a lesson with a guy named Jess Moore and he has gone through all the lessons before and knows the Book of Mormon is true but cant get past the fact that we only have one True Prophet and not many! so i don't know what to do with him.. Hes way cool though and does a lot of studying with different religions!
Saturday we had our Baptism for little Emma Drummond and that was way awesome! A big turn out too! She was confirmed the following morning in Sacrament meeting and that was so awesome to see and be apart of.. During Gospel Principles class we ended up having to leave church early cause i guess something was wrong with the sewage in the church and it backs up a couple times a year! So that was pretty lame to leave church early! I know y'all are thinking that.. the Dilan i know would have been super happy to leave church early back home.. but i can tell you that the new Dilan wasn't haha! Sunday night we had dinner with the Moreirras and they have 10 children! not all living at home but still a lot and their house was destroyed.. it was super nasty! i don't ever want to live like that! And last but not least we went to Anna Voss's house this morning and she is a CPR Instructor and i am now CPR Certified:)! Oh one more thing.. Our walls of our apartment are super thin and i woke up the other morning to our downstairs neighbor snoring like a freight train! haha!
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