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Hello everyone,

This week was really fun! On Monday we went to the cheesecake factory as a district, and then played basketball at the Exchange building. Our ride was very late, so we were the last ones at the church, which is always fun!

Tuesday was fairly normal since we didn't go to transfers. In the evening we had a lesson scheduled with both Lee and Audrey. So we went to dinner with the Roses and then afterwards they came with us for those lessons. And they both fell through! We called Lee and turns out he wasn't going to get home until a bit later, but the Rose's stuck around with us anyway until he got home! So we were able to have a great lesson. Brother Rose just took over and talked about Trusting in the Lord, and Lee seemed to love it. Which is good cause we didn't know if them and Lee would get along.

Wednesday we had the first District Council of the transfer, and it was really fun! The new missionaries in my district seen awesome, it's going to be so fun to have a bigger district. The new Zone Leader Elder Layton seems like he will be great. 

In the evening we had a great lesson with an inactive member named Melissa. We had it a the Morring's house, and showed the Rome Temple video. 

On Thursday we had our final lesson with Bebe before her upcoming baptism, and figured out she now wants her records in the Dallas YSA ward after her baptism. Which is fine, but it means we have to involve that ward more in the baptism. So we called the bishop of that ward to explain the situation, and he ripped into us. He started lecturing us on how we should have involved him sooner and how there's a lot we need to do first and that the date might need to be moved (it can't cause she has family and friends flying in from all over) and on and on. Finally we realized that we had the wrong bishop, cause he didn't know any of the people we were telling him Bebe knew. He was over the REGULAR ward in that building, so we had accidentally called him haha--so we got off the phone with this unpleasant man. Because of that I was super worried about everything working out for her baptism, more on that soon.

Friday was an amazing day! In the morning we went and did service at Minnie's again, which was super fun. I love doing service there. Afterwards we got some pizza at Sam's club cause a member randomly showed up and payed for our food! 

In the afternoon we had a meeting with the STLs and ZLs to make some Facebook Goals for the transfer, we are the Zone Reps so now we don't only message people who interact with the page, but we also are in charge of hyping up Facebook in this Zone. In the evening we had a phone lesson with someone named Marilyn. We had Sister Johnson join us for that, and Marilyn is so elect! Her friend who's a member has been teaching her, and Marilyn said her goal is baptism! So we found her and put her on date in the same lesson! Unfortunately her date is next year on her birthday cause thats the date she wants to set as her goal, but she's happy to get baptized wayyy sooner but she wanted her birthday as the goal haha

On Saturday nothing too exciting happened, in the evening though we went and stopped by a ton of members and nonmembers with Brother Crandall. It was fun because he has a million crazy mission stories. He's also very bold! He told multiple inactive members, "the church is still true, it's time to come back." One lady pretended to use covid as her excuse why she still isn't coming but he would have none of it (good).

Sunday we were still really worried about Bebes baptism, cause we hadn't been able to get in contact with the bishop in that ward. Luckily the Sparks went there and now the Bishop and a bunch of other people from that ward are coming! And the missionaries there seem good too. So everything kinda fell into place. We also did some stopbys on Sunday, and texted every single PMF in our area. It was a super nice night, perfect for being outside! Hopefully it continues to cool down :)

-Elder Nielson