Becoming the Lord's Servant One Day at a Time

Monday and Service

On Monday we had FHE with a family the Evans and Todd, Lois and her kids came over too. we had dinner had a lesson on the word of wisdom around a campfire played hide and seek with them all. we had desert afterwors it was really good. We did a service at a members house we mowed the lawn and we started to weedwacked his big huge backyard with these old weedwackers one he nicknames it the man killer to use it you swing like a golf club at all the weeds it is pretty cool. he had this other ax thing which looked pretty cool.

Interviews with the Mission President

we had interviews with our mission president they went really well and they are really awesome and while everyone else was getting there interviews done sister Crawford taught us how to lead music and we started to memorize some scriptures so it can help our teaching. we need to know the reference and kind of the general idea it contains in it which is all the scriptures in the five lessons. we met some missionaries that served in our mission ten years ago and they told us some pretty funny stories. they are married and have kids. one lives in Vidor, TX and I think the other one lives in Mapleton, UT but i forgot there names but they said they live by the mapleton elementry school.

Exchanges Finding the Elect

We did exchanges with the zone leaders and Elder Backman came to Orange with me and Elder Jackson went to Vidor with Elder Hunt. We went to try to get to know all the less actives in the area. one of them a dog jumped up out of nowhere and scared me so bad that it almost broke through the screen door. We went to see Tiffany Adams she was a member that we just found and she told us that her boyfriend said to her what do I need to do to become a member of your church? she got out her preach my gospel and her book of mormon and gave it to him to read and told him that missionaries need to meet you and so he started to read and could not put it down and I think he wants to be baptized.

we found this other person from tracting her name is Sandra and she said she wants to be baptized sometime and said that she is open minded and is willing to listen. she told us her mother died in December and that she got in a car crash and has brain damage and know she has seizures and she fell down once and has a bruised eye. She is not mad or upset but she is grateful for all the things that she has like her house that she can walk, talk, see and hear.

Elder Backman went to pet this one dog and it seemed pretty nice but it sanpped its mouth at him and he almost got bit. We went to see a less active Harold Morris and we knocked on his door in the garage but no one answered. I pushed the button looked like the door bell but soon came to find out it was the button to close the garage door so it was closing in and i tried to open it back up but it soon did, my heart was racing but im glad that no one was there or that would of been a little embarassing and we laughed while we went back to the car.

People

Todd and Lois- we taught them the law of chasity which they said they are already living it but Lois only hold back is that she smokes and she is trying to quit so she can get baptized and Todd has quit chewing so he is doing really good. They really love reading the scriptures and coming to church.

Shannon Lewis- we taught her about faith in Ether 12 and she said she still wont read from the Book of Mormon because it is new to her but we will eventually get her comfortable with reading the book of Mormon.

Virgil and Cassie Segrest- we read them Moroni 6 on what is the most important thing we do at church which is partake of the sacrament. Cassie said that she wants to be baptized but want to take it slow. they said they would come to church but they have not come to church yet.