Hey Mom,
This week was pretty good. I am not surprised that Matt forgot he had a talk, however I am also not surprised that he pulled it off very well.
Good old work, something I don't have to worry about, yet.
Yeah I have seen that we have won 9 straight, I am liking what the Blazers are doing.
Yes time is flying, I have almost been out for 6 months. April 17th is my 6 month mark, time is flying like crazy.
Alright well, I guess on to the highlights:
Monday:
Monday night we had a ward family home evening, Elder Shipley and I were in charge of doing the lesson part so we decided to talk about the talk called overcoming the world and we talked about how we can overcome the world by making choices everyday to be better than we were the day before.
Tuesday:
Tuesday we had zone conference for 7 hours in McAllen. It was super good and president Torres had a really good training about needing to just keep working hard and waiting for results to come. Afterwards we had a mini family home evening with the Hernandez family, Sister Hernandez had us all read a little bit out of the Gordon B. Hinckley teachings of the Presidents book and we talked about missionary work. Afterwards we had sandwiches which were really good.
Wednesday:
We spent most of Wednesday morning and early afternoon knocking doors because we need to find some more people to teach. Eloy the boy called us and asked if we wanted to visit some people with him so we went and visited his brother and sister, the sister is less active and the brother isn't a member. The brother, Valdo, shared a story about how one time he was saved by the archangel Raphael who was in the form of a bird, Raphael flew down and gave life to him when he was almost on the verge of death. He drinks all the time so I took this one with a grain of salt. After that Eloy took us out to Whataburger to eat. To finish off the night we had ward council and we mainly just sat and listened as usual.
Thursday:
Thursday we did some more knocking, Eloy called us again and asked if we wanted to get lunch at a Taqueria (basically a Mexican restaurant) so we met him there and I had some delicious tacos. Afterwards we visited his other brother Hipolito who is less active. We read a little bit from the scriptures and then Hipolito's wife made us more tacos (so much food) afterwards Eloy and Hipolito were going off about politics because apparently city politics here is super corrupt so they charge way extra for just about everything. We visited David Mendoza who is less active. Then we had nothing else to do and everything had cancelled so we stopped by the Hernandez's for a few minutes to see how they were.
Friday:
We had coordination with Brother Guerrero at Wing-stop so we also ate some chicken wings. After that we stopped by the Ramos family to see how they were doing. After them we stopped by Brother Guerrero because it had been a while since we actually visited him. At about 8:30 we tried stopping by some people who live a ways away from La Joya, they weren't home so we knocked a door and ended up teaching the restoration to a guy and he said we could come back. We got back to the apartment and still had like 10 minutes so we visited a guy who we had talked to before and we said a prayer with him.
Saturday:
Saturday morning we helped a lady that Brother Guerrero knew by taking some bags of trash from her yard to the dump. I was able to see a little bit of an actual border wall that had been built by president Bush in Penitas, so that was cool. After that we helped Brother Hernandez at his Taqueria, we painted for a few hours and then he invited us over for an early dinner with them. While we were painting a guy who has a barbershop on the other side of the road came over and talked to us, he told us that the schools here are super good. They are privately funded so kids always get free lunch and breakfast, if kids play sports they get all the gear for free and they get to keep it, they also can graduate with an associates degree by the time they leave high school after 4 years. This guy who was telling us all of this used to be a teacher at one of the schools. So we ate dinner with Hernandez's and I learned the secret to how Mexicans eat super hot chili's and peppers and stuff in their food. First off they cut it into super small pieces and just have a tiny piece of pepper or chili mixed in with a big bite of food. Second most of the time they pick out the seeds which are the hottest part. After dinner we went and visited some less actives in Havana.
Sunday:
Sunday at the start of church there were about 37 people there total (probably because of the time change) however there were still only 37 people there. The guy who usually plays the piano during sacrament wasn't there so they asked me to play the piano, so I did. I secretly know how to play really well so I played the piano during all of sacrament meeting. Just kidding, it is an electric piano so all I had to do was push the button of what song to play and it played. Luckily right after the sacrament everybody showed up and we ended up having 64 people at sacrament meeting. There were supposed to be 2 speakers but since one of them wasn't there the second speaker went first. He is an older guy in probably his 60's his name is Brother Quiroz and he is super awesome, he has so much respect for the church and everything about it. So he gave a talk about needing to follow the commandments and pay our tithing and be worthy to go to the Temple. He talked for 35 minutes, the bishopric had to tell him twice to start wrapping it up. So he finally did and then we had to end. During second hour Shipley and I taught the 8-11 year old primary kids because their teacher wasn't there (she had asked us to teach on Wednesday) so we taught them about Abraham and the covenant that God and Abraham made. After church we decided to go visit people who weren't there at church. So first we had hot dogs at the church and then we left, I went with brother Hernandez and we visited 3 people. After visits Shipley and I did some studying and then at 7 we left to go visit someone who we had an appointment with. They cancelled so we decided to drive all the way out to the middle of "Narnia" to a small settlement of like 5 houses and a gas station called McCook. It was 20 miles 1 way and on either side of the road was just fields for all 20 miles. It was like 8:30 at night and it was really creepy but people wanted us to confirm if the member lives there or not so we went. It was super scary though so we didn't even knock on the door, we left a card with our number and the got out of there. We went back another 20 miles and got home still a little freaked out from McCook.
That was the week. Pretty entertaining and pretty interesting.
Also did you send a journal yet? I haven't actually checked yet I am just curious if you have or not? I am almost out of room, but I can make it about another month.
I hope all is well there in the North West.
Talk to you guys next week
Love
Elder Goodbaudy
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