This week has been C-R-A-Z-Y! Like i told you in my last email.. I was going to get another companion which is my 3rd this transfer. Well i picked him up at the mission office on p-day and then we went to the Dallas aquarium. that was super fun and we got to see sharks and i touched some sting rays. i almost pulled a Steve Irwin.... Crikey!! but we are good.. I'm not injured or anything. Later that night we went to the YSA Family Home Evening and introduced Elder Toomey to the YSA.. On Tuesday we had the best district meeting ever. Elder Murdock the district leader has the funnest district meetings! We played powerade pong. its the same as beer pong but we played with powerade. and every time a team made the ping pong ball into one of the cups.. the other team had to answer questions from the Book of Mormon or Preach My Gospel! it was way fun. When we left District meeting Elder Murdock came with me and we went on an exchange. i was already getting annoyed by my companion! We made a Spud gun out of PVC pipe that day so we could use it for a visual lesson. that thing can launch a spud a good hundred yards i would think. we also made it to where it has interchangeable barrels so we can have a big barrel for launching potatoes and a small barrel for shooting Nerf darts super fast! we actually shot a member right in the gut that night and it instantly put a welt on him! hahaha! That was super funny! i have video of it too!!
My new companion .....
We did quite a bit of teaching this week and we actually set 2 baptismal dates for the 22nd with a part member family that we have been working with for the last couple of weeks! This sisters also passed off one of their investigators to us because she is YSA age and she has a baptismal date for September 22nd as well... My Birthday! so hopefully i will be having 3 baptisms on my birthday! which is also called a hat trick:)! Church yesterday was awesome and i love fasting! i remember back home i would dread it but going to church for 9 hours straight and feeling the spirit is amazing and totally better when you are fasting for the right reason! The YSA had another "Break the Fast" and it was breakfast and was super good! We also were supposed to go see another part member family last night and bishop earl wanted to go with us.... so here's the scoop on this family.. its the Ramirez family and they are probably my most favorite families in this area! Well Bro. Ramirez has been less active for about 2 years now and we have set multiple baptismal dates with his son Daniel... and Bro. Ramirez wants me to baptize his son because he says his motivation is not there and he says it will take a long time for him to be worthy of doing the baptism.. so we told bishop that and bishop basically said. that's just an excuse! Bishop has no love for anybody! and he is very hard to work with. So Bro. Ramirez said no to having us come over with Bishop.. so that made bishop a little angry and he said.. well my calling is to call people to repentance and i told bishop.. well you have to love these people too right?! I have been working with the Ramirez family since i have been here and i know what Bro. Ramirez is going through and for bishop to just have the intentions of going over and telling Bro. Ramirez what he should be doing instead of putting an arm around him and being a friend just doesn't seem right! I think that's one of the main reasons people go inactive or less active is because they don't feel the love from ward members! anyways.. i hope you enjoyed this weeks weekly update:)!
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