Our week here in Duncanville has probably been the best since i have been in this area! Monday night we had a lesson with our investigator Sandra at Bro. Selfs house.. That lesson was a disaster! Sandra was not happy at all and we have been asking her lots of questions to gauge where she is at and Elder Ricks told her to ask God why there are so many different churches around the world and this was her reply "i will do that.. but i am going to come to you the next day and tell you that i didn't receive an answer!" so i responded to her.. "in order to receive answers to our prayers we need to do pray with the right attitude" and she just snapped!!! She said "WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE RIGHT ATTITUDE" and that is where the lesson went down hill! she has been struggling financially for a very long time and she lives off welfare! Go figure! so it was nice to get out of that lesson! i was about ready to blow up!
Tuesday was a great day and we visited with an inactive member Bro. Robles and he has been inactive for about 15 years take or give.. We had a great lesson and he said that he knows he needs to get back to church and originally he wasn't going to come unless his wife came with him and so i told him that if he would come.. he would set that example for his wife and she would follow him! so he agreed to come this Sunday.. unfortunately he did not. But we did visit some other members that night was able to share more with them about the gospel! Wednesday was the 4th of July and it was hard because everyone was with family.. But we went tracting that morning and we found a new investigator named Chrystal Williams and she has never heard of the Book of Mormon.. Which is really weird to think that people here have never heard of it but they haven't strange right?! Another person we tracted into came bolting out the front door and she said. " are you Mormons" and we said yes! and she said " you need to get out of that religion.. Mormons don't believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God!" This lady was super crazy! She had like inch long hairs growing out of her chin and upper lip! She again told us that we needed to get out of our religion and then laughed way crazily.. kind of like a witch and then went inside! I was so freaked out! That night it was about 8pm and we decided to stop in at sonic for some ice cream.. well this sonic was right across the street from the Duncanville community park where they were going to be lighting off fireworks soon! So this sonic was jam packed! people weren't even in their cars.. they were just standing next to the intercom's ordering food.. Elder Ricks and I were so uncomfortable! There were so many people and just being a missionary and around all of those people was sketchy! So we went home and the rest of the night we heard fireworks until I fell asleep!
Thursday after our weekly planning we decided to go on an exchange with the Waxahachie Elders (Johnson & Payne). They live about a half hour away so were meeting them halfway! we got a phone call from them and they said that they blew a tire about 2 miles away from our meeting point and they needed our help! so we drive down there and the tire is just shredded! so we call up the mission vehicle coordinator and hes telling us what we need to do.. anyways he just tells us to get the spare on and once we do that then he will figure out what we need to do next.. So i guess about a month ago or so.. these elders had one of their tires and lug nuts stolen from the car.. so when the tire company replaced the tire, they put on all 4 of the same lug nuts and one different one and different size. so the tire iron they had in their car didn't fit the odd lug nut! so we had to go to O'reilly Auto Parts. We get there and we found 2 different sizes of a four way tire iron and the guy at the register told us.. Who knows how tight those lug nuts are on that car and even with all the strength of Joseph Smith on your side.. you still probably couldn't get them off.. so go with the bigger one! That was super funny! He told us that his Brother was a member and he just couldn't resist saying that! Well we didn't end up buying one cause they were way too expensive.. but a discount tire shop let us borrow their tools which was very nice of them and we went back to switch out the tires! It was a good thing that I was around because I was the only one that knew how to change a tire! How Sad! So when we finally went on our exchange I drove down with Elder Payne to Grand Prairie for our lesson with Daniel Ramirez. He is a 9 year old and his family is less active.. His dad is super funny too! So we taught Daniel the restoration and Elder Payne is a brand new missionary and has only been out for like 4 weeks and Bro. Ramirez said.. How long have you been on your mission.. and Elder Payne replied About 4 weeks. and Bro. Ramirez said... yeah i can tell! hahaha! that was kind of funny! I'm not being rude or anything but I don't remember being that shy about teaching people.. Anyways the rest of the night was great!
On Friday we drove into Irving for Interviews with President Durrant! That was great cause there were alot of my missionary buddies that i got to see including my MTC companion Elder Flitton! Which by the way.. He is an assistant now.. I guess i am not that righteous?! I don't really like interviews with president Durrant.. Usually in an interview.. the person would ask you questions and you would answer them.. but president Durrant just says. okay what do you want to talk about? I have no idea what i want to talk about other than how my area is going and how i love my companion.. I don't know.. Just kind of different i guess! Anyways.. that took up almost all of our time that day. But on Saturday we were able to meet with Sandra again.. She seemed a little upset.. and she would not tell us why she was upset. So we just decided to ask her questions and come to find out that she was upset because Bro. Self told Bro. Daley about her financial problems and they went over there earlier in the week and tried to tell her how to budget her own money. They also tried telling her to get a job and she is physically incapable of doing that. She has Diabetes and she has lost all of her toes on one foot and cant stand long! So that's why she was upset.. in her own words she told us that what Bro. Self did "hurted her" keep in mind that she is black and they talk a little different haha! Once she was able to talk about her feelings she opened right up and we had a great lesson with her.. we ended up sharing the Baptismal interviews with her and almost all of those questions she answered right.. She said.. i am not ready still but i am close! I sure hope so!:)
Sunday was a great day and we were able to have Sandra join me at church.. But about half way through gospel principles we have to leave to go to the YSA Branch.. Well right as the branch started is when the Gospel principles class got out.. and we were talking to some people in the hall way so we were not in the sacrament meeting quite yet... and we had to get to the other side of the building so we walked through the gym to the other sided and as i opened the door into the hallway.. i slammed it into a person and i pull back the door and guess who it is........ of course! Sandra! OH man i felt so bad.. She told me that payback is coming to me! hahahaha! But that's basically how my day at church went.. We taught a new member discussion to a recent convert named Amythest after church and then had dinner with The Smith Family.. his name is Joseph.. no joke! ha! he is actually from Nampa, Idaho and lived there with his wife about a year ago! He is a dentist and just started up his practice here a couple months ago. He knows Bro. Payne my Orthodontist too! For the rest of the night we dropped by the Ramirez family and shared with them a lesson on chapter 22 of Alma! That's how my week went here in D.Ville!!!!
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