Happiness!

This has been a great week. Yesterday we had no investigators at

church but we did have a less active family the Rodriguez come again

for the third time. They are so glad to be back active in the church.

They said that they have really noticed the happiness that living on

the right path has brought to them over the last couple weeks. We have

been working with some other less active families but they haven't

been making any progressions lately. We had the chance to do Service

two days this week. First we did it with brother Auble in which we

helped him put in some sliding doors for his closets. Then on

Wednesday we had the opportunity to do service with another member in

which they had us paint her bathroom. It was fun to do service for

both of them.

This week we met with a man named Jafaru who was a referral from

online. He ordered a Book of Mormon because many of his coworker are

Mormon and told him to order one for free. We stopped by and he is

from Nigeria and moved here about 5 years ago. We taught the

restoration and he understood it very well and he was also asking many

questions. He understood what we were saying more than I could

understand him because of his accent. He said that he is very into his

church and that he has a lot of leadership there as well. BUT he said

that if he finds out that the Book of Mormon is true than he will be

baptized. This all happened on Friday and so we called him on Saturday

and he didn't answer. Then on Sunday we were finally able to get a

hold of him and he said that he hasn't been able to read any of the

Book of Mormon yet which was to bad. Hopefully we can meet with him

this week but we will see.

We also had a lesson with another investigator named Alex. He is a

Mexican cowboy who does team roping. He has won a ton a huge belt

buckles from different competitions and has cowboy stuff all over his

house. This has been the first cowboy I have met since I've been here

in Parkwood. He didn't come to church on Sunday but maybe he will come

next week. We also taught his two kids who are 17 and 13 and they were

very interested and asked many questions. They want to learn more but

we had to refer them to some other elders because they are with their

mom most of the week in another area than ours.

Weather still has been super nice here and it gets a little cold but

not anything bad. Everyone says that this has been a super mild winter

which I am grateful for because we are on bikes. This was a great

first week of the transfer and I am excited to have my first district

meeting this Wednesday.