This week has been fantastic! We started teaching a former investigator named Aracelly Villa. She and her boyfriend investigated the church about a year ago but would never choose to get married so they could get baptized.. Well her boyfriend is an illegal immigrant from Mexico and was actually caught by police coming back from Mexico and now he is in jail some where in South Texas. Well I am pretty sure
Aracelly came back to the church so she could get members of the ward to sign a petition form saying Rene (Her boyfriend) that he is a good guy and they should let him go. Well i am not sure how much she actually wants to do with the church but we are trying to figure that out.
On Wednesday Elder Hoskins, Elder Ricks, Elder Crockett and I all went to the temple! That was an awesome experience and of course the spirit was so strong there. Elder Toomey had to stay with Elder Saenger because he is not endowed. Most of that day was spent in Dallas but that night we had an appointment with our rich investigator Lacy Long. She actually made us dinner first which was really good and then we taught her the plan of salvation afterwards. She told us that she has been praying and she knows it is true.. but wants to make sure this is 150% for her! I don't see how it could not be for her if she knows its true. On Thursday we went back to Dallas for a Devotional. President Durrant's Father George Durrant and a lady named Susan Black came to speak to us. George Durrant gave a great talk on boldness and he was super funny! Now i know where President Durrant gets his humor. And Susan Black is a lady who knows almost everything about Joseph Smith! It was such a great talk! i learned a lot from both of them.
On Friday we taught our new investigator family! Laura Galvin is the mom and she is 29 and then she has 4 kids. Anahi Chavez-11, Anessa Chavez-10, Miguel Galvin-9, and Homero Galvin-6. We had a great lesson on the Restoration and we set a baptismal date with all of them forOctober 27th. It was so exciting! This area is really booming andright now we have 7 baptismal dates! I have never had that much at one time! Saturday was probably the best day this week! well the funnest i should say. It was raining in the morning and we had a service project planned that some of the church members came to help with. We helped the city of Duncanville put up a playground which was by far the best service project i had done on my mission. Although it was raining and we were all soaked. it was still fun. We were all split up in groups and i was part of the group that put together the swing set and the rock climbing wall. and Elder Toomey got the shaft job! He had to haul mulch to the playground. He was covered from Head to Toe in mulch! it was hilarious!
Later that night we met back up with Aracelly and re-taught the restoration because it had been so long that she had heard it. Well you basically have to teach her like you are teaching a child because her comprehension skills are terrible! we asked her 3 times what a prophet was after we explained it to her 3 times and she still didn't know! That night we got a call from the 2nd counselor in the Mountain
Creek Ward saying that we needed to give a talk because the 1st counselor who was supposed to talk was pretty sick. so we agreed to since we were giving our talks in the YSA too! Well it rained all day Saturday and all through the night into Sunday morning. In theMountain Creek ward we had 3 speakers. Luis Fernandez was first, then Elder Toomey and then me last. well at about 11:35 Elder Toomey got up to speak and he didn't end his talk until 12!!!!!! I had to kick himin the foot while he was up there speaking to tell him to end it! and then we had an intermediate hymn and i literally had 5 or less minutes to give my talk when i had planned to speak for 15 minutes. I was so pissed at Elder Toomey i just ignored everything he tried saying to me.
In the YSA i was able to give my full talk! It was on Faith in Jesus Christ. At this point i was still a little irritated with my companion it was at the point to where we were arguing with each other. Well that night we had a dinner that was 8 miles away. By the way my license is expired and i am not allowed to drive the car until i get my new license. So i was just going to drive to our dinner anyways but then i thought to myself and said nope... we are riding our bikes! Oh boy was that a struggle for my companion. i think at one point i was waiting a good 10 minutes for him to catch up! It was a good humbling experience for the both of us:)! My week was an overall good week with 7 baptismal dates set!
Not bad at all!!!
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