A Daily Taste in Elder Hickey's Life

Tuesday and Golden Youth
We saw the Bonins and there family is against mormons but Jordan is 18 and he loves our church and all the activities we do. They usually don't let anyone from our church in there house. They don't let him go to church, seminary or anything. One time he sneeked out of the house to go to seminary and he got caught and got in to big trouble. a member in our ward brad bebee and him were at his house getting his clothes and taking him to his house before his parents came home so he could go to church. that is so weird. He wants to go on a mission but he doesn't think he will because of his parents.

We went to see Josh Murray and he is 18 and he is really cool kid. They were pentacostal. He has been taught the fourth lesson and he is going to youth conference. We taught him the first lesson and he had a lot of questions and he said he would read the Book of Mormon and we set a baptismal date for this month, he is golden and he wants to go on a mission and wants to read the D&C, Pearl of Great Price and the ensigns. we said to him before you read any of the extra material, we want you to focus on reading the Book of Mormon. He called us later and he said he was teaching his mom and know his mom is asking questions so know we are probably going to teach his mom too. He also said that when he was watching a show and there was bad language and a inappropiate thought came into his head he immediately turned it off and got his Book of Mormon and started reading. Because we told him to have clean and pure thoughts. he is awesome. I wish all investigators was like him. he asked us if it was a sin to grow out your hair? we said no and we talked about the Word of Wisdom and told that out body is a temple and that men are not supposed to wear earings, not to smoke or anything and he said he would stop.

Wednesday and many visits
we saw bill singley and we tried to get him to church and tried to set up a church tour. He said he can do one next week. We saw a less active Chris Naquinn but he does not want to come to church and is not interested any more. we saw Josh Murray and taught him the rest of the restoration. we went to see the boddies and shared a message and gave an invitation for them to bring someone to church this sunday.

Thursday - Planning and Conversion
we do weekly planning. we went finding and we got some good quality contacts but no return appointments. we went to teach tristin smith and we taught him the last new member lesson.

We had dinner with the vashaws and sister vashaw told us her conversion story and it was awesome. She was at work and one of her co-workers was mormon and he just seemed so special but she didn't know what it was. than one night she went to his wife and said what makes him so special and she told him why he was so special. She gave her a Book of Mormon and she read it all night and she had a lot of questions so they went to knock on the missionaries door but they where not home so they went to some members hosues to have the questions to be answered and then later they knocked on the missionaries door again and they began teaching her and she knew it was true and wanted to be baptized. she had to attend two sacraments before she could get baptized.

Later we went with Brother Schabaka to go see Josh Murray and we watched the restoration DVD. He loved it and had a lot of questions.

Friday - Zone Conference and Exchanges
Today we had zone conference in Beaumount and we talked about that our zone had the most baptisms in our mission. we got 18 baptisms in June. Its the most baptisms that they have had in a long time. we had lunch at kings palace its a chinese place and it was so good.

we did exchanges and me and Elder Thomas was in silsbee while my companion went to Lumberton to work with another Elder, so I was in charge for the silsbee area and it went good. We saw the Gardners and they are less active and sis. gardner said her foot was bothering her so she didn't come to church this sunday. We saw Geno and talked to him and we set up a church tour.

Saturday - Commitments and Door Knocking
we went to see the Taylors and we followed up on there book of mormon reading and they have not been reading. we extended a invitation to keep reading. we invited them to come to church this sunday but they said they needed to do house work. we saw the goins and they are less active. Brother Gion is a member but his wife is catholic and she just got out of the hospital and she is overcoming cancer. we sended a invitation for them to read the scriptures and to pray and they said they would.

I said to Elder Thomas lets see how more successful apartment tracting is than house to house tracitng. we only had time to knock on nine doors and only two of them turned us down. than out of the seven we got three return appointments and one was Otha and we gave him a Book of Mormon and a Restoration pamphlet and he said he would read them. we had dinner with the Willis's and it was good.

Sunday - Church
we had PEC and then had chruch and one of our less actives came to church which is good. she has stopped smoking and know is reading the book of mormon and is excited to read it.