Apartment lock-out/ car lock-out with car in Neutral!

This week went by good. The work has died down now since i just got done baptizing my 5 investigators the last 2 weeks. we have other investigators but they are not progressing as much as i would like. On Wednesday we had a big zone conference at our building and there was a good 40 or so missionaries there. For lunch some of the members from the Desoto ward made us food and Lacy was one of the members there helping out. Its so cool to see on of the people i taught and baptized fit so well in with the ward and the members. There is this member in Plano that makes these really cool tie clips and he made a ton for the mission and they were passed out at the zone conference and i was the one passing them out and after everyone got some i got to have the rest. i got like 50 of them haha. Our district leader Elder Shuman was
originally going to go on exchanges with the Desoto elders that day and they said they couldn't and so he was super angry and he asked us to go on exchanges right then and i said no and that made him even more ticked. Talk about no planning at all! i mean come on!

Friday was such a terrible day! We got up at 6:30 and we were planning on going to the church to play basketball for exercise and we hop in the car and it wont start. and our apartment complex is full of black people and i stopped the only mexican in our apartments and i asked them to jump start our car. well i put the car in neutral and pushed it out of the parking space and left it in neutral. we shut our doors and as soon as the jumper cables connected it automatically locked our car with the keys in it. Well at this point we were screwed because our keys were locked in the car, the extra one is in dallas about 45 minutes away, and our apartment is locked. And it is freezing cold
outside! So we started looking for a way into our apartment. keep in mind that we live on the 2nd floor and we only have a little balcony for our back door. We saw that our sliding glass door was unlocked so Elder Kidd climbed up there and we were able to get in.. thankfully! Apparently i was showering the other night and Elder Kidd had to pee super bad so he peed of the balcony and forgot to unlock the sliding glass door. haha. Well Elder Kidd doesn't have a bike and we didn't end up getting our car unlocked till 7 that night because that day another zone conference was going on and no one was going to be in the office till after 5! So that day we didn't get too much done!

On Saturday we went to help this guy named Larry who we always help  with service. He as an 84 chevy truck almost exactly like mine. and we helped him take of the gas tank. clean it and put it back on. It made me remember working on old blue back home.. I miss working on cars. although i dont know that much about it.. i still love it! He is not a member but he is a really great guy and we love going over to his house and helping him out. Church was great but super long like always. I almost always get super bad headaches at church on Sundays, which i hate. all in all it was a good week.

A goal reached....Baptising a family of 4! Chili cook-off judges

This was a really good week for Elder Kidd and I. On Tuesday we had a
Multi-District Meeting.. Which meant that our whole zone got together
and were taught by our zone leaders. A missionary in our mission named
Elder Tuma and his companion were actually jumped by a bunch of black
people in Dallas last week and Elder Tuma suffered a Broken nose and
bruised collar bone and his companion who was a "Greenie" actually had
his jaw broken and had to go home. Elder Tuma was a missionary who
came out with me and was in my MTC District and he is a super great
missionary. I guess his companion waved at the group of black people
and when they parked the car they came up to them and said hey why
were you blowing kisses at my girlfriend which he wasn't and that is
what made the guys jump the Elders. Anyways.. after our meeting we had
to drive into Dallas for a new missionary trainer meeting.. which is
usually just for Trainers and new missionaries but they wanted back-up
trainers which is me and their companions. The meeting was good but
super long and it seemed like we were there forever. I met a sister
missionary named Sister Walton who is good friends with Heather Jensen
and she apparently was told to find and meet me once she got to the
mission. She seems pretty cool.

The whole week we were scrambling around to finish the Baptismal
program and find baptismal suits that fit our investigators. We
finally finished the program on Saturday and then at 6 we went to the
church for the annual Mountain Creek Ward Chili Cook-Off. I guess the
missionaries are always the Judges and we had to taste so much food!
At least 10 bowls of different chilis, A bunch of different bread, Pie
and Desserts! Not so good for my diet at all! After we finished
judging there were some members that were poor losers and they were
coming up to us and saying.. why didn't you pick ours? or did you not
think my chili with the brisket was good? That was kind of annoying!
Besides.. if you never feed me.. How do you expect me to pick your
chili or dessert or whatever? haha. After the ward event we had our
baptism for Laura Galvin, Anahi Chavez, Anessa Chavez, and Miguel
Galvin. It was a really big turn out and I was asked to baptize the
mom which was Laura.

On Sunday we confirmed our new converts members of the church and that
was super special! I baptized a family of 4! That was a goal I had for my mission was to baptize a family!!