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Tuesday we had our last district council of the transfer. It was really good, and we did floating which I am forbidden to explain. We also had a really cool lesson with a lady we've been trying to get in contact with for a long time. She just randomly reached out to US and set up a lesson so that was great. We also did some painting for a lady in the Texarkana ward.
Wednesday we had several good lessons, and then in the evening we went to a Sign language class our ward just started. It was really cool, but also super overwhelming. But the good thing is I am now fluent and can speak it effortlessly (as one does after a single class). After the class we had a Q/A with the young men. It was super fun to talk about all the weird/fun things in missionary life and I wish we could have had a few more hours.
On Thursday we walked around a lot--street contacting in the neighborhoods and complexes in Hooks. It was hot but fun, and we found someone new to teach. She said she didn't want to come to church because she doesn't want to wake up at that time but that should change if we can get some members to come with us and fellowship her.
Friday we finally got to meet a couple who have cancelled on us 6 times. They are incredibly flakey, we didn't even try to set up another lesson. If they don't want to get resurrected first then I guess that's that...
Saturday we went to a funeral for Brother Woody in our ward. It was sad but also really cool to hear about his life. Radio DJ and anesthesiologist were a few of his many endeavors. After the funeral Elder Clark and I stopped by a guy named Odie and taught him the restoration. It went well, and afterwards we felt like we should walk around his whole apartment complex. So we walked around and talked to people and found 4 new interested people! It was lots of fun, we gave out some copies of the Book of Mormon and got each person's address and phone number.
In the evening we put Stephen (who we've been teaching for a while) on date to be baptized! It was great, the best part was putting it into area book cause everything turns green and it's the first time I have seen the on-date goal advance :)
On Sunday the morning was uneventful but in the evening we went up to Texarkana to watch the YA devotional with our district. It was a really good devotional and an investigator who is getting Baptized watched it with us! So he got to hang our with 8 missionaries which as everyone knows is much better than hanging out with normal people. 😎 After the devotional we stayed the night in Texarkana since we were going to have to come up here anyway for p-day.
As we waited for transfer news the tension was palpable. We called the Sisters so that our whole district could get it at the same time. It's very stressful since the email could come anywhere from 9:30 to 10:40 haha
We had some fun sending a fake transfer news email that looked identical to the right one to the Sisters and we got some appropriate gasps from them before they realized it was fake hehe
It finally arrived and Elder Clark is the only one leaving! So I will get a new companion and the Sisters will be trio training but otherwise our district will stay the same!
Pictures are attached. (This is all the information I will give about them as usual)
-Elder Nielson
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