This week has been a pretty good week. The only thing too crazy about it is the weather. You never know what the weather here plans on doing. One day is is nice weather, not too hot, not too cold and then the next it decides to be cold and raining!! It is so weird!!
On Wednesdays we work with the local
Kiwanis Club at a local school. We do what they call 'Happy Packs.' They
are for the kindergarten kids. In their backpack we give them a book,
juice, applesauce, snacks and some other food since many of them come
from families with limited income. All the kids love it! They want to
high five me and Israelsen all the time and this past week we had some
kids come run up to us and hug us and thank us for the Happy Packs. It
is really cool to do this for them and they really appreciate it.
So this weekend Elder Israelsen and I did quite a bit of service as well. On Friday
we went and helped a member of our ward, Gale, remove a miniature palm
tree kind of thing from her yard. I don't remember what she called it
though, it was some weird name. It took some time to get the roots out
be Elder Israelsen and I powered it out in about 30 or so minutes. Then on Saturday
we did about 8 hours of service. First, at about 9, we went to help
Brother Fletcher's friend Brian move back into his house that was
flooded and that he has been out of for a few months. We got the
opportunity to talk with the other people that were there helping and
tell them about what we do as missionaries and they all thought it was
really cool what we do. After that service we went and helped a family
from our ward put new insulation in their home. It was kind of cool to
do and I am glad that I know how to do it now but three hours of it was
crazy! I am still sore from bending to put it in!
This
week we got a new investigator. His name is Brandon. His
girlfriend is LDS and so he has been coming to church and to institute
with her. We started teaching him yesterday. He was raised Baptist by
his Grandmother and is a very religious man. We don't have a return
appointment at this point because he wants to think about what we have
taught him and to see if it is something that he truly wants to pursue
learning the Gospel. We gave him our number and he said that he plans of
texting us sometime this week with whatever he decides. He seems
interested and I can tell that he is willing to follow the invitation
that we gave him at the end which was to pray about the message that we
gave him and about the things that he has already learned and to see if
this is something he wants to do. I will keep yall up to date on how
things with him go.
Well that is about it for
this week! I hope all yall are having a great week and that the Lord is
blessing yall in many ways
