This week has been great and we are doing a lot better now in our area
now that we have been here for about 2 weeks! We are not teaching as
much as i was in my last area mainly because the area i am in now is
more wealthy and less humble. We had a great visit with Allison
Crawford an investigator of ours on Tuesday and also had dinner with
the whole family. We watched the restoration video and had a great
lesson on the prophet Joseph Smith. We were able to resolve a lot of
her concerns and questions and its probably not going to be too much
longer before she takes the plunge!
On Wednesday a member took us to Fuddruckers for Lunch! It was
delicious! I haven't been there my whole mission and its the first one
i have seen on my mission. We went to give a baby blessing after for a
less active sister in the ward. Her Baby has pneumonia! We also
visited Brother Jones who is a blind man in the ward and he was
cracking blind jokes left and right. It was super funny! Something
Texas is famous for is there "Trade Days" which is another term for
"Swap Meets". There is this huge one in one of our areas and we went
to it on Friday to see if there was some stuff we could buy to send
home for Christmas! We had a really great experience Wednesday
night.
We went to visit this family that the bishop was kind of hesitant on us
visiting. But our first Sunday here i just had their name in the back of
my head and it wasn't going away. So i knew that it was definitely the
Spirit. So we went to visit this family and had a great visit with Sister
Larsen on the doorstep. She got to talking about her husband being in
the potato business and we told her we were both from Idaho and she
said that she was from the Rigby area.. a little town called Labelle. Well
that is where Elder Thompson's mom was from and Sister Larsen.. come
to find out was best friends with Elder Thompson's Aunt growing up!
I knew that was an answer to the feelings i was having at church the
Sunday before! What a great experience!!
Saturday we took some Christmas pictures to make Christmas cards and
they are hilarious! Most of that day we were stopping by less active
and part member families to visit. We had dinner at a Chinese Buffet
and guess what was on ESPN?? It was the "Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
Game" Toledo Vs. Utah State. Oh that made me super trunky to see the
Smurf Turf and to also see the Boise Valley when they would show
it.... Later that night we went to the Mckinney 3rd wards Christmas
party which was at the Ragsdales home! They are super rich and have a
huge house and big property!
The Fairview ward also had their Christmas party on Sunday and it was
awesome! The members of these wards are definitely willing to do
missionary work! One member brought a friend to church yesterday and
now we will start teaching her this Wednesday.. Lots of great
opportunities to do missionary work here in my area!
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