Meetings and pizza!

Week full of meetings and pizza. On Tuesday I had District Leader Council and then on Wednesday I had my first District Meeting and then on Thursday we had a trainer/Trainee Meeting. We also had pizza 5 days in a row. During District Leader Council they talked about the importance of a District Leader and it just made me even more stressed but I am also excited to try and lead this district. I hope and pray that I can be the leader that the one set of sisters in my district need me to be. They also talked about how to run a District meeting. This was very helpful and it helped me change the way I was going to do district meeting. For district meeting I over prepared a lot but I think it went alright. I trained on teaching short and simple and we did a lot of role plays. I feel like it helped our district and hopefully they were able to apply it in their missionary work. Then for the last meeting of the week which was Trainer/Trainee meeting was great as well. I learned so much from President Slaughter  and also the assistance. They usually have this meeting a week into training but since there were only three people that came in with my companion they just waited and until this transfer to have it. I wish I would have had it earlier because it helped me learn how to become a better trainer and what things I can do to help my companion with his struggles.

Also after the Trainer/Trainee meeting we went to the temple which was great. Last time I went there was 7 months ago my first day in Texas. I love to see the temple but my companion wasn't feeling good and he threw up on the temple grounds. After the meeting we just went back and he slept the rest of the day while I studied and also cleaned up his closet and the rest of the apartment. 

We had two lessons this week one with Russel Morgan who is living with a less active member and I don't think they are married. He use to meet with missionaries about a year ago and then he stopped talking to them. His wife wants to get back into church and wants him to join as well but they didn't come to church like they said they would these last two weeks. We are going to be meeting with him again tomorrow and hopefully we well be able to help them understand the importance of church.

Then our other lesson was last night with a man named Richard Martinez. He is an investigator from the new part of are area that we got a couple weeks ago added to our ward. The other Elder have been working with him and so we had a lesson with him and the other elders as well. He is a retired cop and is ripped. He said that he knows the Book of Mormon is true but that he will not leave the Catholic Church. Hopefully as he continues to read and pray that the Holy Ghost will work on him and that he will change. On Sunday we didn't have any investigators at church and the Rodriguez family didn't come to church. We weren't able to get a hold of them this last week. Also Jafaru I don't think wants us to come back as he doesn't answer the door or his phone. Valentines was great. We didn't have a dinner so we just ate a late lunch at our apartment and skipped dinner. We took our dinner calendar to church and I didn't think it was possible but we lost a meal because someone crossed out their name and no one signed up either. But that's okay.