Jeremy, Jamie, and Jail-food

Jeremy's Jail Food
Jeremy one of our investigators his wife came back with the kids and they are living with him again. He is happy that they are together again and his wife is learning from us know and they all came to church. They have five kids Jonathan is the oldest 11 years old which is a boy then they have Gabbi who is nine they have three other kids which I forgot there names. Jeremy has fed us twice he loves cooking but his cooking is different from everyone else. he was in jail about ten years and that is where he learned it. he came make anything from just about what he has. the first one he made us is called the spread eventually it turned out to a taco and burrito. He first smashed the ramen, boiled some water, put the ramen in a garbage bag a clean on hopefully then tied it and let it sit for a while. he put rice with it, then he cut the garbage bag and put peanut butter and cheese. it came out as a taco and burrito it was actually pretty good. the second one is called the jailhouse burrito he did the same thing but he did it in a chip bag. he added the ramen flavor and crunched up dorritos. you never know what kind of things texans come up with. I will provide pictures of them and of the baptism we had this past sunday which was good. we had two investigators show up.

Jamie
Yesterday we just set another baptismal date with jamie she is a girlfriend to one of our members and she really loves the church and she believes everything that we have taught her so far about the restoration, the plan of salvation we just need to work with her to stop smoking.  her date is going to be for August 19th. oh yeah jeremy's wife wants all her kids to be baptized which two of them are of age so we are going to try to set a date with them.
  

The Miracle of Fasting

cynthia: she was the one that we tracted into and at first she was not interested but as we talked to her she opened more up and she came to church last week. She has been out of town lately but she called us the other day and said sorry that I could not make it for church but I will be there this coming up Sunday and she said lets just say that I am really interested.

Jeremy: He has been coming to church for the past six weeks and loves it because of all of the fellowship from the members and how much they help him out. we go over there he always brings up the discussion about authority he believes that the authority was never taken away that the catholics has always had it and he was baptized as a catholic and he only believes in one baptism  and strongly believes in the bible and not anything else. He said I am not going to be baptized until I know for sure and until I get answers to my questions. Yesterday me and my companion decided to fast for jeremy. this sunday was diffrerent from all sundays the stake presidency came and spoke at sacrament meeting, taught sunday school and left it open for questions about the events that have been happening. A councilor to the stake president spoke to him after and had a good discussion and then someone from the high council spoke at elders quorom. Brother Rascon the councilor told us that he wants to come to the lessons with us with jeremy. We went on our day and it was about 8:30 and we recieve a text from him saying elders we I have great news to share with you call me as soon as you get the chance. We went back to our apartment and gave him a call and he told us that he has been doing a lot of pondering and praying lately. he said that the bishop paid for his rent and how he loves all the members and told us that epsecially what brother rascone said really inspired him and struck him and that solidfied his answer and he said guys I am going to get BAPTIZED!!!! YEAH. we were going crazy after that. we are going to tell the ward and we are going to schedule his baptism for the beginning of August we are so excited.

Marobell: we took her on a church tour and she loved it. she said that we have answered so many of her questions that no one has ever answered them. She said that when she gets the answer she will be baptized and will talk to her family about it. she is making quite a lot of progress.
 
here is my full address:

15100 golden eagle drive #902
humble, TX 77936

Humbly Transferred

Humble
Well  I got transfered to fall creek or in other words humble,tx. I think its about forty five minutes away from johnny. My new companion is Elder Tuai he is from California but regionally from Tonga. He has been out for eight months. Yeah I am in a really nice area, the people are really great here. I am serving in a ward and basically everyone in the ward is from utah. people that have graduated from byu and is working down here. It is a car area so I wont be using my bike that often or even at all this transfer.

half of our area is a nicer area with people that are well off and have huge houses and the other half is little bit more humbler.  it seems like we are going to have alot of succes in this area. oh yeah my address is 15100 golden eagle drive, humble, TX I dont know the zip code is though.

Cynthia
This past week we have been knocking on doors and we have found some great people. one of them her name is Cynthia she is about in her 50's and she was not open at all and saying a lot of stuff about religion and did not want to listen but as I testified some of the truth that she said and corrected her she openend right up and invited us to come back. So we went back and followed up with her and she was really excited and was looking forward talking to us but we did not have a member with us, because we can not go in a single womans house without another male. She said that she was really impressed that we did nopt get upset or mad at the things she said or believed and she really liked that. We invited her to church and she actually came but she only stayed for an hour but she said she will stay for all three hours next week. That was so cool to see how she opened up to us.

Mary We are teaching this 17 year old her naem is Mary she is hispanic and we came over and we shared the restoration to her and she loved it and the spirit was there and she believes everything what we taught. she also told us that she was questioning her religion she is catholic and she does not believe everything that they do like confessing your sins to the pope and some other stuff. we left a book of mormon with her and came back to teach her the plan of salvations he loved it and had a lot of deep docterine questions we tried to answer them the best as we can. She is so solid.


 

Last week in Beaumont

Blessed Progress
There has been a couple of big rain storms and everyone is expecting that we are going to get a hurricane this year but we will see. The work is going really well in Beaumont. Christian is still on track of getting baptized on the 21st and jasmine one of our other investigators is getting baptized on the 14th. I will be able to come back to see them to get baptized. We taught a lot of lessons this post week of totaling 28 lessons yeah we are teaching so much and super busy. Christians family was so supposed to come to church with her this last sunday but christian was doing homework all night and was dead asleep when her family came and stopped by her house to pick her up. her family is non-members too. they wanted to go to church with her to maske sure that she was even going to a church. because christian has not been to church for nine years. Her family was really excited that she is going. but hopefully they will come this sunday. we have been teaching jasmine and she is working on stopping smoking. she has two kids and one of them is two years old and he is crazy and wild. throws things around the house and just screams or cries to get the things that he wants but he is so funny. 

Heating up!

Yeah It has been really hot here in the 100's. but it has been really humid. I have been hearing that we are going to get a big tropical storm on thursday that will be fun to see. We are teaching this really cool investigator her name is christian and w have been teaching her for two weeks. she has come to church twice and she loves it. In the lessons with her we can see the spirit so strongly working with her it is so amazing and it is hard to explain. when we taught her the word of wisdom she quit on the spot. she took all of her cigerettes and put them in the sink and got her gallon of tea and poured it all over her cigerettes and she dumped out all of her coffee in the trash. she is going to get rid of the coffee pot to her mother it was so awesome. We set a bptismal date with her for July 21st but we are going to see if we can bump that up a week.

we had three investigators at church on sunday and it seemed they all loved it. This area has a lot of potential and it really could use a nother companionship of elders. Oh yeah we get the transfer calls this saturday and I will see if i get transfered which I think I am pretty sure that i am. I will let you all know next monday. I have grown so much this transffer it is so crazy. It has gone by so fast, its getting faster and faster and before I know it I will be going home. I love our branch because members take us out all day and we have been burly even used our bikes.