GG Simmons

-Elder Nielson

Sunday was fun, we had 4 people come to church, one of which is named Patrick. He's a cool guy and he thinks we look like lawyers in our suits. We also got a text from Sharon who we were teaching, here's what it said, "Hi. I ended up going to my church. After much thought, I decided I'm not in a place right now, where I want to switch denominations. I love my pastors through sermons, and this what I'm used to all my life. I appreciate all that youvefone for me, but I know I will not be changing my mind. I am actually going to start volunteering at my church as they have a 9nce a month street church where they feed the homeless in DT Dallas. I'm looking forward to this to keep me busy. Please log onto Create Churches website to listen to this week or last weeks sermons for an insight on my theological faith."

Some people just want to settle for the Terrestrial Kingdom. 🙃 We asked her if she had even given the Book of Mormon a try and she just left us on read, so that's a no. If you never read the Book of Mormon, how are you even going to know if it's good or not?

Other than that nothing interesting happened on Sunday. Oh wait, except for transfer news...

Saturday was good, we helped an inactive member named Allan sort through some boxes. He's a funny guy, he just can't make up his mind about anything and seeing all the boxes just overwhelms him and he can't even really deal with it all. He moved from a house to an apartment and there's too much he can't bear to part with, so we had to take a firm hand. We ate at SmashBurger that night which was fun. Afterwards we stopped by some members, and were able to have a Facebook lesson at their place! We got a member to be on the lesson with us too, so anyone who says you can't get members on Facebook lessons is wrong. :) We had members with us on every single lesson we taught this week!

On Friday we went and did some service with the Sisters at Hope's Resale Store. Brother Rose gave us a ride there in his Mustang! It has a supercharger and is from the top line. It was the most fun ride of my life, the way he drives it he gets 10 mpg haha--its really cool and you can just feel the car's engine the whole way. When we showed up they were having a Baby Shower haha--so we just joined in and then helped clean up. We moved a lot of boxes for the store after that. After service Elder Barton picked us up and since we needed a new tube for Elder Stanley's tire we stopped at store after store looking for one but they were all out! Finally we found one at a Bike store luckily. For lunch at 4 since it had gotten so late we had some pretty good burritos, then for dinner an hour later we had Fettucine Alfredo! Lorna also brought by 3 more bags of cookies, so now our entire counter is covered with cookies and Brownies and donuts and pastries and bread and bagels.

In the evening we went with Brother Sparks to teach Audrey, and the lesson went so well! One of the best lessons I've ever taught. She said "wow" a lot during the first vision, and is super excited to read the Book of Mormon!

Thursday we did service at the food bank and for Peggy. We also did our weekly planning, and then stopped by some inactive members. We had chinese for dinner. Also Elder Stanleys tire popped!

Wednesday we did service for Lorna. We helped her pack up her RV for her trip. We had Spaghetti and Meatballs with Garlic bread at the Bushop's house for dinner and it was really good! Immediately after that we biked over to Olive Garden and had a lesson over our second dinner there with Sister Sparks and Sharon! I got the Fettucine Alfredo which was super good as usual. Sometimes 2 dinners is good cause then if one wasn't good you have another chance. Luckily both of these were good!

Tuesday we had our last district council of the transfer! We did it at the Barton's house, and it was super good. Afterwards we did floating and false prophecies. We ate taco salad for lunch. Then we went on exchanges, so I went with Elder Fuentes back to Plano 10. We had a good time, we taught a couple lessons in the evening. One of the lessons was with a couple and we taught a full Restoration lesson and it seemed to be going really well and then when we invited them to read the Book of Mormon they flat out said "no." Elder Fuentes about walked out haha--we basically ended up bearing our testimonies of it and then leaving. Afterwards we had a lesson with a guy named Lee, and we talked about the spirit. He said he is struggling to find answers, so we asked if he prays about what we teach. And he said yes. So we asked what he feels after he prays about it. And he said he feels the spirit and feels peace. Sooo basically we tried to explain that WAS his prayer being answered haha--he even said the last time he felt the spirit was when we last taught him a couple weeks ago. So he just needs to connect the dots!

Monday we had Zone pday which was fun! We had waffles. Lots of the day was spent talking about conspiracy theories that might be true! In the evening we had a great FHE lesson with the Bushes and Bebe. 

Hi everyone, heres my week:

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P.S. I am staying and so is Elder Stanley. Sister Carr is going to be STL in this zone Sister Luke is staying and trio training

Elder Fuentes is leaving and Elder Van Tassel is staying

They are opening a new area in our district so 2 more Elders will be joining us!

Our district is going from 6 missionaries to 9 missionaries haha