The Joy of July

The Fourth of July and squirrel meat

We went over to the Boudreaux's and had a barbecue and than another member cooked us some barbercue and gave us some steak, ribs, squirrel, potatoes, corn, rolls and some other stuff for the week. No we don't get to see fireworks. Texas outlawed fireworks because it is so dry and has not been that much rain. so everyone is mad that they outlawed them. Our neighbour asked us if we wanted to go see fireworks by the river and we said we can't because of the mission rules. Yeah they still do them even when it is outlawed. It is usually over 100 degrees and it is way hotter because of the humidity. when we bike and stop to knock on the door, we are just soaking and dripping with sweat. Yeah it is a little different than what I thought.

The "Full"fillment as a missionary

I love being a missionary because of all the different things we get to eat. I get to share the wonderful gospel to other people. hardest being a missionary is getting up at 6:30 every morning, I think and teaching to little kids because we where raised in the church and know so much that it is so hard to teach it simply so they can understand.

"Finding" Success

While we where going see some investigators, a guy about in his late 60's said come over here and talk with me. His name is Geno and he wanted to know what message we where sharing so we told him about the Book of Mormon and he wanted to know more about it. He said he already had a Book of Mormon because some other missionaries came over and gave him the Book of Mormon but they did not come back. He said he wished he was a mormon and he told us about how he worked around mormons and how nice and helpful they were. How they have helped him. we are going to set up a church tour with him and set a baptismal date.

we got a refferal from the sister missionaries and his name is Josh Murray and he is 18 Years old and I guess he was over his freinds house and the sister missionaries were teaching his friends family and he listened and liked it and they commited him and he wants to hear more so we are going to teach him the first lesson and set a baptismal date for him. His parents are pentacostal.

We also met a referall Michael Stanley and he drinks a lot and he wants to stop and see's how it has effected him and his family and he wants to do more with his life than to drink so we said that our church can help and they provide a free class that helps people to stop addiction. He is going to that and than we will take him on a church tour.

Loads of Service

we replaced some peoples steps becuase they where falling apart. On Tuesday we did service until four Pm. One of the Lumberton elders while they where tracting felt he should go ask if this one old lady needed help and so he asked her and she said yeah she did and she said how much do you charge and they said for free, then she just laid out all the things that needed to be done. We did a lot of yard work and than we helped a member move around furniture and paint the house. we helped some members move there stuff to there new house so we have done a lot of service last week.

Members and Part-Member Teaching

We are teaching a part member and we are teaching Bill Singley who is not a member and has a smoking problem but we set a goal for him to quit completely in six weeks. He is doing good and he already has been cutting back on smoking, when he has stopped smoking he said he would be baptized.We have been teaching Tristin Smith who we have baptized recently and teaching him the new member lesson. We went over to the silsbee oaks health center and saw Aldon Stout who was the stake president and saw some other people there.

New Mission Presidents and a Frog

We met our new mission president Crawford they are really great and going to be great mission presidents. They are from Salt Lake/ Louisiana.