"Orange" it Wonderful

"Orange" it Wonderful

The cities we work in is Orange, Maurciville, Dueyville, Vitan, Starks, and some in Louisiana. We have a car becasue our area is huge. we have a new ward and it is so small, there is like fifty people there maybe a little more than that. we live in apartment which is nice. I am getting a little better at cooking. My companion is really tall and skinny, He talks really quiet, he has four months left, but yeah we have been getting better working with each other.

Tracting Success

We tracted into this one family and we taught them a first lesson and they seemed to be interested in it so we are going back there tomorrow to teach the second lesson. We went over to a less actives house and he had his friend and his sister over there and she had a lot of questions and we started to answer them and by the end we taught the first lesson so we are going to go back and watch the restoration video and set up another appiontment to teach the second lesson. His friend liked that we were not forcing anything. that we were just inviting them.

we tracted into a baptist preacher he invited us in and he gave us water and he was talking to us about all the stuff they believed and some was similar to what we believe but there were quite of few things that are different. we tracted into this couple that are strong catholics and we taught them the first lesson and they were listening and we gave them a restoration pamphlet and a Book of Mormon and they said nothing can change them but we will see. they said they were going to read it so we are going to go back and see if they want to learn more.

Referrals

Hunter Beaumount a fifteen year old member in our ward gave us a whole page of referrals that were his friends and they are really nice and we are trying to set up an appointment with them to teach them.

Service

we did service at the orange cristian services we set food orders i think its for people that can't afford food or something.

Investigators

The Bishop took us out and we saw this 89 year old and he is really missionaries have taught him all the lessons and he has read the book of mormon and he wants to be a member but his family is strong penticostal and they said if he joins they would give him no support and other stuff. He has a walker because his knees are bad. He said some missionaries gave him a book of mormon but his family saw it and took it and soaked it in water and threw it out. so we are going to give him another one and he said he is going to have to hide it so his family wont see it and he lives alone.

Less Actives

We have a lot of less actives to work with. we have about ten pages of less actives to work with but its not as much as the silsbee ward have. We went to see Mike Odom and he is a less active and we taught him the first lesson and it went really good. He is building his own house and it is so cool, he has a pond, he is a beekeeper, and he is a really cool. we had district meeting and was talking about the importnace of the Book of Mormon.The members are great but we dont get fed that much down here like in Silsbee and we are trying to get the members more active in missionary work and to take us out. we are pretty close to a few rivers. we are the only missionaries in our area the closest ones are in Vidor.