This week has been up and down and left and right! Kind of Crazy! But way Awesome! Tuesday was District Meeting day as usual and the rest of the day we visited with less active members and one of them was bro. Art Robles and he has been inactive for who knows how long.. he actually use to serve in a bishopric when he was active.. well now we are trying to get him and his wife back to church and we are not sure what her hold up is.. i haven't met her yet too. but bro. Robles has a few concerns about the church now since he has been inactive for so long.. He has been trying to read out of the Book of Mormon and he came across Jacob where its talking about Polygamy and how that's an abomination in Gods eyes and he couldn't grasp why the early church practiced Polygamy and why it was so necessary. So we shared with him a lot of stuff out of the scriptures and probably went deeper than we should have. but it all came down to praying and seeking the lords guidance on that and he said he would do so! Later that night we had dinner with the Mendoza family.. We actually eat dinner with them every Tuesday night and there daughter invited a guy over to have dinner also and we ended up sharing with him the Restoration.. That was pretty sweet!
Wednesday we went to mow the lawn for a less active/part member family that we wanted to help out.. They didn't have a lawn mower and there lawn was like 3 feet tall! So we packed all of our ward mission leaders Lawn care stuff (mower, weed eater, blower and gas) in the back seat of the lords car and we went to give service:)! it took us 2 hours to mow that lawn and it was way smaller than my lawn at home! We first had to weed eat all of the tall grass down and then we mulched the yard.. In Texas.. No body bags their grass! But it was a great blessing to be able to help a family in need! Thursday was really slow we had our planning day and during lunch i was laying on my bed and my sheets were wet.. so i get off and i found a little whole in my bed.. you are probably wondering why my bed is leaking but its because i sleep on a water bed! yep thats right:) we fixed the hole with a bike tire patch and so far it is holding up! That night we found a Buddhist Temple in our area and we went to look at it and there was monks everywhere! They were super nice to us and they allowed us to take as many pictures as we wanted so that was a neat experience!
Friday was my year mark! yayyyyyy!!!! We were invited to attend the Youth Conference and we were asked to teach about the importance of having a testimony about the Book of Mormon and how we can share that with our non-member friends. There was 5 groups and the lessons were about 45 minutes each! It was great! Each youth got their own Book of Mormon and we asked them to highlight one of their favorite versus and then write their testimony in the front. We invited them all to give that copy of the Book of Mormon to one of their friends! After Youth Conference, My companion and I had the opportunity to go to the Dallas Temple! OH was that one of the most spiritual experiences I have had on my mission! This was my first time going since back home and we are supposed to go every 6 months or so! So it was a very nice opportunity to be able to go and feel how strong the spirit is in the House of the Lord! Later that night some members took us to a restaurant called Cheddar s. Oh man it is so good! and i also got a dessert.. The monster cookie! (it is this huge 6 inch cookie with ice cream on top and chocolate syrup with nuts, whipped cream and a cherry! Texas food isn't quite the healthiest but is sure dang tasty!
Saturday was a good day at the start and then right before our appointment with a less active member at 5. he calls us and told us that he really needed us and that we needed to hurry and get to his house asap! when we arrived at his house there was 3 police cars parked out front and we walked in and he was sitting on the couch crying and his wife who is a Buddhist and some of her friends over and they were chanting prayers really loudly! Come to find out.. Bro. Moffette's son passed away. He was 19 years old and had a severe case of Autism and had about 5 seizures a month.. and apparently he had a seizure while he was sleeping and he ended up suffocating himself. It was a very sad situation and i felt horrible! Bro. Moffette was a wreck! we gave him a blessing and then we stayed with him for about 3 hours comforting him and teaching him about gods plan of happiness for all of his children! You could tell that by us being there he felt a lot better!
Sunday in the young single adults sacrament meeting was probably one of the most powerful testimony meetings i have been to in a long time! the spirit was so strong there and the testimonies that were bore were so powerful! we taught gospel principles since our branch mission leader is a failure at his calling and never comes to church so we have to wipe his butt for him! but that's okay. more blessings for us i guess! haha! After church we had whats called break the fast with the ysa branch and we all had a big dinner! Then we went back to Bro. Moffette's house with the 1st counselor bro. Esquivel, His home teacher bro. Pina, and bro. Eubanks and we planned out his sons funeral for this upcoming Saturday! so this will be my second funeral since i have been on my mission! but like i said at the beginning of my letter.. This week was Crazy!
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