Training!

It's been a crazy and stressful week. We had three new missionaries come in which I am training one. It's funny because I came in with 24 missionaries and now we only had three come in this transfer. He is my fourth companion and I'm still in my second area. He is also from California and his parents are from Mexico so he speaks alright Spanish. Hopefully he will be able to teach me a little. He hated the MTC and was excited to get to Texas. My companion loved playing video games at home and also for fun he would do trick shots with a frisbee. Hopefully one of these days he will be able to show me his great frisbee talents. 

I feel so unprepared to train. I just got out here five months ago and I'm still figuring out how to do missionary work. I have been thinking a lot about the talk by Dale G. Renlund in the Sunday morning session this last General Conference. He and many others quoted from doctrine and conference 1:23. Me and my companion don't know that much deep doctrine but we have a strong testimony and we can teach simply and that's all the Lord expects of us. Although I am weak and still learning the principles of missionary work and getting to know the scriptures I know that God will make my weak things become strong (Ether 12:27). 

This week was hard. We haven't had a lesson since Monday night and we have knocked many doors and are trying to clean up our area book by dropping the many investigators that we have. My companion is trying to get use to missionary life and is always tired. I try to help him get pumped and have energy for missionary work but he is always tired. He still works hard though and he is starting to get use to knocking doors all day. I can't wait to have a lesson one of these days so that he can lead out. 

This week my companion has already feel on his bike two times. The second time he broke the gears but we kinda fixed them a little but. He is also very sore from biking all day. Yesterday for dinner a member of the Ward put together a big party so we were able to go and visit with all the members and also we meet a couple new investigators there as well. 

"A Savior is Born"

On Saturday we had our Ward Christmas party. There was a ton of food.The big Christmas event that they have at our Ward is The messiah which is this huge play/musical that the stake puts on each year.

Yesterday we met this Indian family who was from dharmsala which is where the Golden Temple is (I've been there). They were so nice but they weren't willing to change. It reminded me a lot of the great time I had in India and the memories that I made there.

This week we have been showing "A Savior is Born" which has been a great opportunity to bring the spirit into the conversation and then we are able to share a restored truth. It's been such a great blessing to have iPads and be able to show the video on people's door steps. Then we don't have to ask awkwardly if they could pull up the video on their computer. On average we show the video about 3 times a day and our zone leaders told us last night that we need to double that number.

We didn't have any investigators at church again but we meet and talked with many people this week. We knocked many more doors than we have been because we need to find new investigators. We met a man named Danny who we had two lessons with. He has a couple different beliefs than us but hopefully the Holy Ghost will continue to testify of the truth and he will change. We just are praying that he will pray read and ponder the words in the Book of Mormon. Joe Tolman has been
out of town all week and won't be back until the 20th so we won't be meeting with him for another week. Also this week we dropped a few more people as they were either not progressing or we can't get a hold of.

On Tuesday Elder Pino who is in the 1st Presidency of the Quorum of the 12 and his wife spoke to us. We also heard from President and Sister Slaughter. He spoke in Spanish so they had a missionary translate for him. Elder Pino spoke mostly on how we need to make sure that we our focusing on our purpose as missionaries. Then Sister Pino talked about humility and how we need to not be prideful and think that we are better than other missionaries. She went on to talk about how we all have strengths and weaknesses but how we not to compare each other's. It was great to hear what they had to share with the mission.

Christmas here in Texas is weird. Not as many people put up lights and there is no snow so it doesn't even feel like Christmas.

"It's not so much what happens to us but how we deal with what happens to us." 

Beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

This was a great week. First of all I went on exchanges and this time I went to the other elders area. I went with Elder Viatia who is from Tonga. He is such a great Elder. We had dinner with the smiths who is some random member in their Ward but he served a mission in Seattle. Come to find out his mission president was Grandma Hanks. He pulled out some pictures and there was good old grandpa Hanks such a small Mormon world. He told me about the first thing they did and that was go to the mission office and have waffles with ice cream. He still thinks that waffles and ice cream are greatest thing together.

As we have been out riding our bikes and also walking around there have been more and more Christmas ornaments. They have HUGE blow up santa's and other things along those lines. It's weird because this week was a lot warmer than last week so it doesn't feel like Christmas at all. Especially since we can't listen to Christmas music and no snow. But it's all good because I have realized what the real meaning of Christmas is and I would rather be out here than snowmobiling at bear lake and doing all of that other worldly things.

This week we had no investigators at church again. Jamie one of our progressing investigators dropped us so that was a dagger but we will move on with faith that God will put people in our path this week to teach and get to church. Joe Tolman our only progressing investigator now will be out of town every Sunday this month and a lot of next month so he won't be coming to church for a while. He wants to be baptized and knows that he needs to be but the only hold up is that he is scared his wife will kick him out of his house.

Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving was great. We had a great time at the DeWitts. We did have another dinner planned but it canceled a day before thanksgiving which was a dagger. We are trying to increase are teaching pool but we haven't had that much success lately. We are on bikes which has been great because we have been able to talk with so many people that we ride past. But the only bad part about being on bikes right now is that is is starting to get pretty cold. Also it has rained a couple times so we had to walk which slows down the work a little bit.

This week was pretty slow. We only had six lessons and not many less active members let us in or answered the door. We also only got one new investigator this week but I know that as we keep on working hard and being obedient that God will put people in our path.

We invited Joe Tolman to be baptized who is an investigator that the other elders worked with a little bit. He said that he wants to learn more before he decides to be baptized which I know that he is ready right now but hopefully as he asked God and keeps on reading the Book of Mormon that he will receive an answer. Also he couldn't make it to church on Sunday because he was out of town but he said that he will come this next Sunday We had a couple lessons with Jaime who is doing great just needs to stop drinking coffee. He has stopped as far as we know but haven't been able to meet with him for several days because he has been out of town. Once he quits then he will be able to to have his interview with the mission president.

Investigators!

It has been really fun living with the zone leaders. It's great to see the hard work and the desire they have for this mission to grow. We also had zone conference this week in which we were able to hear from president slaughter and also his assistants and the area leaders. It's always great listening to their words and finding new things that I can improve on. 

This week I found out that in my old area Bastrop they will be having two baptisms with people that I worked with in the next couple weeks and that the Roman family of five will most likely be getting baptized in December. I wish I could be there for those baptisms but I know the lord needs me here in Parkwood at this time. Right now we don't have anyone with a date but we are working with a couple people. We are hoping to find some new investigators and increase the teaching pool here. It's nice to be on bikes because we are able to talk to some many people that we ride past. But the only bad part is that it's getting really cold especially at night. 

This last week we contacted and visited a lot of the leaders in the Ward to see if they had anyone they would like us to visit and if they knew of anyone that could use service. This Ward has a lot of trust in the missionaries so hopefully we will be able to not loss that trust and get some baptisms in the next month. We also visited many of the investigators that the old missionaries worked with. 

This Sunday we were hoping to have four investigators at church but only one came. His name is Jaime and he and his less active wife just got married two weeks ago the same day that they had their baby. He is the closest one to baptism right now and we just have to resolve a couple of his concerns and then we will be ready

We meet a couple crazy people this week as we were out and about talking with everyone. Someone told use we can't ever make a wrong choice and he also said that we are all one and that life is just a big illusion. And then we also talked to a black named Tyron who told us to remember his name because he is going to be a famous rap artist. Then we ran into some bible bashers which is always fun.  

"Your faith will grow not by chance, but by choice."

Second area!

My new address is

6298 Lockhill Rd. #803

San Antonio Texas 78240

I have arrived in my second area (Parkwood which is west of San Antonio) with my third companion (Elder Carter). We got doubled in and the last elders left us with hardly any information on the area and
the apartment was very dirty. I have been trying to clean up but haven't had a lot of time to do so because we been busy trying to figure out what is going on in this area. Also we have the zone
leaders living in our apartment and some other elders that just live two apartments down. It's fun being with other Elders and P days will be funnier now because I will be able to play basketball and hopefully soccer even though non of them like soccer that much. This is my first companion that was called English so I don't have my hour of Spanish study so hopefully I don't forget all that I learned.

My area is very different from Bastrop and a lot smaller. We are on bikes and there are neighborhoods and no farm land. I will miss Bastrop and the Ward but I am excited to work in the Parkwood Ward.
For transfers we didn't get to our apartment until 8:30 pm and then went to dinner with a family from Peru who fed us so much food. Great first dinner in the area. They also signed up for dinner on Christmas Eve which will be great if i stay in this area.

We had 8 investigators at church the last two weeks so it was hard to leave Bastrop because we were getting close to some baptisms and then we come here and had no investigators at church. Hopefully that will change in the upcoming weeks.

I haven't heard a lot about the new change on baptizing children of same sex couples. Members or investigators haven't mentioned it that much lately. I think that it is a great idea because our gospel is centered on families and it would cause contention and the "spirit of contention is not of me, but is of the devil".

"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."

Importance of the Book of Mormon

We have transfers coming up on Thursday and I will find out if I'm getting transferred or staying tomorrow night via email. This transfer we didn't have any baptisms but we are working with a lot of people and hopefully will set them with firm dates by the end of this week. On Wednesday we had our last district meeting for this transfer and after we went to smittys BBQ in Lockhart which was so good. Also this week it rained a little bit but nothing like the rain and floods that we had two weeks ago. It's starting to get a lot cooler here and it's almost time to pull out my sweater.

We had eight investigators at church yesterday to watch the area conference. The Roman family (5) Jasmine and Cricket Brinkly (2) and Garret Mercer (1). We weren't able to meet with Roman family this last week but the kids came to mutual on Wednesday. We are trying to find a good time to meet with the whole family which is pretty difficultbecause the father has recently moved out and only visits once or twice a week. They still don't know if the church is true but they know that in order to find out they must study and read the Book of Mormon. We are going to hopefully set them with a date at the end of this week.

Also we had a time set to meet with the Brinklys but they got sick so they postponed to this week. The mother is glad to be coming back to church and the two daughters are excited to go to church on Sunday's and also mutual on Wednesday. We set them with a date for the last weekend in November but we might have to push that back because we haven't been able to meet with them recently.

Garret Mercer who has been investigating for a long time now is starting to read the Book of Mormon with his active member wife. They try and read everyday but said that they have missed only a couple days so far. When we first started meeting with him he told us that he knows he needs to read the Book of Mormon to find out if the church is true but is just really busy. Know that he is starting to read I know that the Holy Ghost will touch his heart and that he will know what he is reading is from God.

I have realized the importance of the Book of Mormon in conversion these last couple weeks. As we have shared and read from the Book of Mormon the spirit is present and can testify that our message is true. I know that as others read and ponder the words in the Book of Mormon and also pray to know if it is true that they will know for sure that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God and that he could have only translated the Book of Mormon with the power of God.

This week I also had the chance to tell the Joseph smith story, bear my testimony, and say a prayer in Spanish. I'm glad that I can help my companion teach during Spanish lessons and be able to testify of what I know is true.

Yo sé que dios restauró su evangelio a través de José smith
Yo sé que mi familia son eternas
Yo sé que el libro de mormón contiene la plenitud del evangelio
Yo sé que jesucristo es nuestro salvador
Yo sé que Thomas S. Monson es un profeta llamado por dios
Yo sé que la iglesia de jesucristo es verdadera
La estoy agradecido a mi padre celestial por este conocimiento
Esta testimonio me ayuda a superar desafíos
En el nombre de Jesucristo Amen

Flooding with investigators!

This Sunday was crazy! We had 8 investigators at church and we only thought we would have maybe two. The Roman family (parents only speak Spanish but kids speak English) said they weren't going to be able to come but then randomly showed up about ten minutes into sacrament meeting. The father and three of his kids showed up and we had to try and find a translator but couldn't so we just had them seat next to brother Flores who was able to translate to the father. Later that night we had a lesson with the whole family (5 in total) and invited them to be baptized. They said that they will pray and if they find out that the Book of Mormon is true then they will be baptized. I just sat there most of the lesson and didn't understand anything but I could feel the spirit and hope that they will study the Book of Mormon and pray about it.

Also we had the Brinkley family show up which is a part member/less active family. The mother is less active and the two daughters want to get involved in church and be baptized. The mom expressed how she wants to start coming back to church but that it will be very difficult with work on Sunday's. We have a date for the daughters for the first weekend in December.

When it rains in Texas it comes down. One week there is a wild fire because it is so dry and the next week there is flooding and the Bastrop park is all the way under water. Also many of the main highways in Austin were closed because of flooding so many of our members were stuck in Austin for the night. Here's a picture of a trailer park that is under water.

"Kindness means doing a lot of little things kindly and always, not just a big thing now and then."

Rainy Days!

It rained pretty hard for a couple days but has stopped. We were soaking wet and it was very windy which made it pretty cold. There wasn't a lot of flooding here in Bastrop but there was some parts that we couldn't get to because the water was covering the street. I guess there was a huge flood a couple months before I came to Texas that was pretty bad and ruined a couple houses but this one wasn't nearly as bad. 

This week we took one of our investigators Darwin French cigarettes and we are going to be stopping by him tonight to see if he has quite smoking. He couldn't make it to church because he was sick and has a lot of health problems. Elders have been working with him for a couple years so if he didn't quite we might stop stopping by him because he needs to take the next step and start progressing.

This week I gave a training during district meeting on how to be a successful missionary. I found a talk by Russel M. Neilson and I loved this quote

"Mortal perfection can be achieved as we try to perform every duty, keep every law, and strive to be as perfect in our sphere as our Heavenly Father is in his. If we do the best we can, the Lord will bless us according to our deeds and the desires of our hearts."

As missionaries we need to do our best and try to be as perfect as possible. We can achieve mortal perfection as we live and follow Jesus Christ example and teachings. I also talked about how "perhaps we might save some few of their souls" Alma 26:26. After district meeting we had exchanges and I went to Buda/plum creek again but this time I went with Elder Green who has been out for only a couple weeks. It was weird being the older missionary for once but we had a great time and saw many miracles.

Exchanges!

So this week there was a pretty big fire in the little town next to Bastrop called Smithville. I think that they have finally put it out after 5 days or so. It smells like a camp fire wherever we go now which I like the smell. We didn't have to get evacuated which would have been pretty cool. This is a picture of the fire the first day that it started.Also this week we had our miles cut down to 1600 when it was previously 1850. We had to go on bikes almost everyday this week because we hardly have any miles. Because of district meeting and any other meeting we have it is at least 100 mile round trip. Biking this week was pretty fun because we don't just sit in a car all day and we get to talk to a lot more people. It is still very hot and one part of our area called Tahitian Village is very hilly so it is pretty hard to bike there. We still have been working with Winston and trying to set him with a date. It's hard because his parents aren't to interested and i think that his mother doesn't want him to be baptized. We are still working on having her sit in on the lessons also but it's difficult because she is always working or sleeping. Also we can only meet with him on the weekends because his mom doesn't want him to meet with us during the week because she thinks he will start to get bad grades in school. We don't have anyone else with a date right now but we met a couple new people and hopefully will have lessons with them this week and set them with dates. We also had exchanges and I went to Buda/Plum Creek area. I have now been on exchanges there 4 times and I feel like I know there area pretty well. I went on exchanges with our district leader elder Webb who served in Bastrop during his training. He is such a great elder and we had such a great time. I learned so much from that exchange especially how I need to not worry about the things that I can't control but only worry about the things that I can control and change.

Choose for himself!

Winston is doing great. We had a couple lessons with him this week and he also came to church on Sunday again. He loves having us over and is always so excited to learn more. He is 15 almost 16 and wishes that his parents were more interested in learning. We have been trying to have them sit in on the lessons also but they don't seem to interested and our always running around the yard working on stuff.

Antonio who is 17 told us that we will not be able to come by anymore. This was so hard because he was my favorite person to teach and we got a long so well. Every time we taught him he was so amazed and would keep every commitment we gave him. He would take his Book of Mormon to school and read it there and would have us over a couple times a week. He wanted to be baptized but his parents wouldn't let him. He told us that we can't come to his house anymore and teach him because he has some problems with our beliefs. But really it's because his parents won't let us come by anymore and are making him go to their church with him. When we said goodbye he started to cry and I had the opportunity to give him a priesthood blessing. He is such a stud and hopefully one day he will be able to choose for himself what church he wants to go to.

We have a nonmember who comes to church every week with his member wife but just has a couple problems with our beliefs and it's because he won't take the time to read and study the Book of Mormon. I know that if he will do CPR Church, Prayer, Read that he will find out that the Book of Mormon is true and that this is gods church. Just like President Uchtdorf said we must put our effort into gaining a testimony.

We also had the chance to help a member work on his house. We were upstairs scrapping the popcorn off his ceiling and there was no air conditioning. It was so hot. Also we stopped and help a man move his dead truck out of the middle of the road. It was pretty funny because he was a priest for some random church here in Bastrop and just started praying for us and doing a bunch of other weird things. Then he said he will put us on his prayer list so that was pretty cool.

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."

Conference!

Conference was amazing and I got to watch all the sessions. We watched them all at our church. Saturday there was no one else that came so we were the only ones at church except for Priesthood session in which we had our investigator Winston come to and a lot of the other priesthood brethren came. Winston said that it was a very spiritual experience. Then on Sunday there was a couple family's that came to the church to watch conference and they also brought lunch which was good but not as good as Ebeskebers. We had another lesson with Antonio on Friday before conference and his parents told him he couldn't come to any of the sessions of conference but we told him he could watch it online. It was awesome about 5 min before priesthood session started he texted us asking what the count down was for. He is so prepared just hopefully his parents heart will soften. We invited about 5 other investigators but none of them came which was a dagger. Hopefully we can get them to stake conference this Sunday.

One of my favorite talks was Larry L. Lawrence who talked about how if we are humble and teachable then the lord will guide us throughout our lives and keep us on the path to one day live with him again. He also talked about how the Holy Ghost doesn't expect us to change everything all at once but how we are going to have to take one step at a time. He quoted President Spencer "I have learned that were there is a prayerful heart the lord will pour out more and more light". I know that if we have a prayerful heart then the lord will answer our prayers.

Another powerful talk was Neil L Anderson who talked about faith and how the savior sees our faith. He shared the story about the family who had one missionary out serving and another one in Germany on a study abroad and how the rest of the family got in a plan crash and died. The son had such strong faith, unshaken faith that he knew that he needed to stay out on his mission and serve other. We must all have faith that cannot be shaken or tempted by satin. We must have the light in us that can't be blown out. "Fear not the future is as bright

I got a new companion on Thursday but I am staying here in Bastrop. I had such a great time with Elder Ramsden and he taught me so much. Elder Trammel my new companion has been out for a little less than a year and is not as strict as Elder Ramsden was. He is very energetic and is pretty funny. He went to Utah State before he came out and said that he didn't know Spencer but saw him on compass a couple times. He is from California and plays lacrosse. They changed Bastrop so now it's not the district leaders position anymore which it has been I guess for a very long time. I love my new district leader and I meet him my first night in Texas so I am excited to go on exchanges with him. It's been pretty hard trying to lead out the area these last couple days. There is a lot more pressure on me now that I am the only one that knows this area. "That the fulness of my gospel might be proclaimed by the weak and the simple unto the ends of the world, and before kings and rulers." D&C 1:23. I know that I am weak and simple but I know that with gods help I can share his gospel. Dieter F. Uchtdorf mentioned that the truth is sometimes very simple.

Armadillo!

This week was pretty good. We came home one night and our neighbors were loading a moving truck. So we helped them load everything in the truck for about an hour then had to hurry and get to bed. Then the next day we helped them unload at their new apartment just down the street. They are a very nice couple who are in the army. When we were unloading they had so many guns. It's crazy how many guns people have hear in Texas. We had dinner the other night at a members house and he said he had at least 50 guns in his house. Texas people are crazy about their guns.

It was pretty crazy this morning we saw an armadillo and we tried to catch it. Those things are so quick. It went under a car and I grabbed the end of its tail but I didn't have enough grip that it got away. They are such weird animals and sometimes when they are running they jump it is the weirdest thing. Maybe one day I will be able to catch one. We have still been working with Antonio who is amazing. This week we asked him if he would grab his Book of Mormon and he had it in his backpack because he reads it at school and on the bus. He is almost done with 2 Nephi already. He didn't come to church because his parents made him go to their Catholic Church but we are still trying to work with the parents. One day he will be baptized. We don't have anyone with a baptismal date because the ones we set this week with dates didn't come to church so we removed their date. Hopefully this week we will be able to have a couple of people with dates.

We had another lesson with Christy Miller who is a mother of four crazy children and her husband is always wasted. We went yesterday and she was crying because she doesn't like the way her life is going. She has no money, her husband is crazy, she lost her job and everything is just not going good for her. I didn't know what to say to her so I just bore my testimony and told her that scripture study and prayer will help. I have been so blessed to be raised in such a great family and in a great neighborhood and house. I have also noticed the importance of marriage and how important it is to marry someone who will help you get through this challenging life.

Also we finally meet with Winston again and he said he has been very busy with school and helping his dad rebuild their trailer but we had a great lesson with him. He had an amazing prayer were he said that he wants to meet with the missionaries more because he knows how important our message is. Hopefully we can get him back to reading the Book of Mormon each day and also get him to come back to church and young men's.

"What a great difference there is between giving 
advice and lending a hand!"

Service opportunities!

This week I was able to do a lot of service. The mission had Spanish conference this week so I went on exchanges with my MTC companion which was so fun. We were painting this mans house and I was inside painting in a little tiny bathroom. When I finished painting the bathroom I came out and my companion told me I looked like I just got out of the shower because I was so sweaty. It was so hot in there. We also had the opportunity to put together a less actives BBQ that he got for his birthday and then had a great lesson with them. I love doing service and have been looking for more opportunities to serveothers.

Today president slaughter called a new assistant who served in Bastrop. I'm excited to meet him and to get to know him a little bit better. Also we have district meeting on Wednesday and I have to give a 20 minute lesson so I'm excited for that. The other day we had an interesting conversation with a military veteran. We knocked on his neighbors door who asked for a bible online. I guess that it was his daughter and he came out and almost beat us up. He was mad at us for knocking on his daughters door and trying to share our believes with others. after we talked to him for a little and cooled him down he said he was about to come over and knock us out. That would have been crazy if he started to throw punches.

Antonio is doing great. We taught him the word of wisdom the other day and he was so confused on why people wouldn't want to live the word of wisdom. He still loves to learn and has been reading the Book of Mormon. He wasn't able to come to church on Sunday again for some reason and his father still won't let him be baptized yet. We also have been meeting with a less active who was baptized here in Bastrop about ten years ago but then moved and hasn't been to church for about 8 years now. We are working with him and hope that he will come to church next Sunday. Also we are trying to teach his wife but she says she isn't into religion which has made it hard for us to teach her.

Power that God gives!

Saturday we had the chance to give John and D'Artagnan the
priesthood so that they could go on the temple trip with the ward.
They are such great kids but we found out that they are moving just
right outside our ward boundaries and also missionary boundaries in
about a month or two so hopefully other members and missionarys will
help them stay active and involved. It was such a great experience to
give someone the priesthood and to know that power that God gives to
us through the laying on of hands.

Last Monday we finally played another sport other than volleyball. We
played basketball but only one person showed up so we played 21 which
was still really fun. Hopefully in my next area we will be close to
other missionary's and be able to meet up and play soccer.

On Wednesday we had exchanges and another elder came to Bastrop with
me so I had to lead the area again. This elder didn't really talk at
all so I had to pretty much do everything. I realized many of my
weaknesses that I need to work on so that I can become an even better
missionary. We had another appointment with Antonio this week and he
had a game the same time as church yesterday. We went over and talked
about agency and how it is his choice to either play soccer or come to
church and also we discussed the Holy Ghost and how he answers are
prayers. He told us that we helped him a lot and that he will pray
about it. We felt good about the lesson and we were hoping he will
come to church but he ended up going to his soccer game which was a
dagger. We have another lesson with him this week and we hope that his
father will allow him to be baptized and also that he will realize the
importance of keeping the sabbath day holy.  We have a couple
investigators that we are working with but we might have to drop a
couple of them because they are not keeping there commitments.

This was a long hard working week. We didn't have a lot of success but
I know that as we do as we have been asked to do blessing will come
and God will put people in our path.


"The rights of the priesthood are inseparably connected with the powers of heaven,...

                                                                                                  D&C 121:36-37

First Baptism!

I had my first Baptism on Saturday. We baptized John and D'Artagnan who are 15 and 13 years old. I had the opportunity to baptize John and then on Sunday confirm D'Artangnan. It was such a great weekend and it was awesome because when John came out of the water he told me "I just feel good and I'm really happy". They are such great kids and will be great for this ward.

Antonio is doing great. We went over on Friday and taught him the Ten Commandments. It was crazy because we talked about keeping the sabbath day holy and we thought that it would be very difficult for him to commit to it because he has a lot of soccer games and practices on Sunday. But he said "I have a soccer game this Sunday but I will tell my coach I can't play because I know that God doesn't want me to". He is so willing to change and listen to everything we have to say. He is such a great kid the only problem is is that his father told him he has to wait to be baptized because his father wants him to learn more about his church before he is baptized in our church. It was a dagger when he told us this but he is still willing to meet with us and will be coming to church next week. We were able to do a lot of service at this members house. We put up dry-wall and also insulation. It so nice to be able to do service and get a break from knocking and teaching.

Baptism of John & D'eArtagnan

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