Hey Mom,
That is cool, I like the pictures, and yeah I heard about Dame making the All-Star team, things just come up on Facebook and you can't really hide them so.....
I am a fan of our new black jerseys too, they look nice. I see what you mean about the Jazz jerseys, yes I got the Bob Ross reference.
Yeah Braden said it was another slow week, we kind of had one too but he is keeping on keeping on from what he has told me.
We didn't crash anymore birthday parties sadly, we almost crashed a wedding, or a Catholic baptism, we aren't sure which, but we didn't end up crashing it.
We had 90 in Sacrament meeting, sadly none were investigators but it is always nice to see less actives coming to church.
Yeah the ferry is checked, behind the camera there is a huge checkpoint that people have to go through, it is only open until like 3 in the afternoon and after that it is locked up, which is why nobody was there.
One thing that Shipley and I are trying to do is visit less actives and help them to start doing the basics again, reading praying and going to church. That has started to work alright. We are also talking to more and more people about the Temple and about how they need to be ready for when we get one here. That has been kind of cool, to hear how eager everyone down here is for a chance to go to the Temple.
Time for this weeks highlightsthere are some gems this week:
Tuesday:
We had a Zone meeting until about 4:00 which we just talked about some ways to use our phones and some people had to set them up so we spent basically all day doing that.
Wednesday:
Just the usual, we had 2 meal appointments back to back today. First was with the Ramos family and we had mole (which we had quite a bit this past week) Then we ate with the Rivera family and had a really good chicken and vegetable meal with rice. Then we had family history at the church and one of the power cords caught on fire, so that was fun.
Thursday:
We decided to bike the military highway across to Penitas, along the way we found a huge snakeskin (picture included with me for size comparison) and then we went and knocked some doors. At 11:45 we decided to knock one more door before we went back for lunch. So we knocked on a door and an old dude just yells for us to come in. His name was Manuel Samuel Samora Ozuna, he is 82 years old. We talked for a little bit and then we tried to have a prayer before sharing a message with him and right before Elder Shipley goes to say the prayer, Manuel starts to go off about his life story, and no we didn't end up saying a prayer or teaching a lesson. We listened to his life story for about and hour and a half (even worse it was 11:45 when we knocked on his door) Then he asks us to drive to an office in McAllen (about 30 minutes away and out of our area) to go to some office and find some 81 year old lady whose name he can't remember so that he can marry her. Yes you read all of that right and I am typing it exactly how it happened. He then gave us a $20 bill for gas money and food to go to McAllen and then we also found out that Manuel Samuel wears adult diapers, I was sitting next to a pack of them the whole time and we also could see him wearing one whenever he went to adjust the blanket he had covering himself. The best part was that at about 1:45 we finally left and then Manuel checked his watch (he wears 2 watches) and said that his watch said it was 6:00 but it was an hour ahead so it was actually 5:00. It was 1:45. We finally left and Shipley put the $20 bill under a pot by his door after we left, we will not be going to McAllen to find some 81 year old lady. We hope that Manuel Samuel's caretaker lady finds the $20, I feel sorry for her. The rest of the day we just went around and visited with people.
Friday:
We had weekly planning and coordination with Guerrero, he brought us tacos which is what we had been craving for the past week.Then we did some finding in Pueblo De Palmas and ate a really good egg, bean and, rice dinner with just flour tortillas, delicious. Then we visited some people out in the middle of nowhere who are members and talked to them about the Temple and being active in the church.
Saturday:
Pretty much nothing happened, we just visited people and tried to make sure all of our investigators would be at church tomorrow. We did eat dinner with the Hernandez's and they fed us Spaghetti, which was really good.
Sunday:
We had church and none of our investigators were there (slightly disappointing) but we had a really good lesson in elders quorum where we read the talk "the needs before us" from the Saturday morning session and the High-councilman who is over our ward talked a lot about how we need to make sure that our family relationships are solid so that we can then go out and help others. We went and visited some people out in Sullivan city and saw and Emu, yes we saw an Emu in South Texas (picture included) The rest of the day we just went and tried to visit some less actives but none of them were home. Eventually we stopped by the Hernandez's house and just talked with them to see how they were doing and what they need to do to figure everything out.
Other than all of that the week has been pretty good.
Talk to you guys next week, next week on Tuesday is transfers, Shipley and I both think we will stay here for at least one more but we will see!
Love you guys
Elder Goodbaudy
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