Ho-dee Ho-dee Ho, Sir

Hi,

This was a great week, on Monday we had Zone Pday where we played Volleyball and pudding Pictionary, which was super fun, and in the evening went out with Harrison. We taught Tony, and revisited the Plan of Salvation! It went really well, he definitely needed that review. We also visited a girl named Madison, and he Dad said she's really interested and has been looking for her purpose now that she's out of High School. She works evenings so we will try and catch her during the day!

Tuesday we had District council and got lunch with Jack! We also went out with a new YSA who just moved his records named Ruben. He's super cool, he drove us around in his Mercedes, and we talked to a lot of people! He's one of the most optimistic people I've met, he just loves everything which is really refreshing. 

On Wednesday we went to the Rowlett District Council, and went on exchanges with Elder Jones and Elder Dawe. I was with Elder Jones here in Heath, so we got Boots Burgers on our way back from Rowlett. We were also able to study at In-n-out, and we got one of the employees numbers so we will hopefully be able to start teaching her soon! We went out with Matthew in the evening back to Rowlett, and visited a guy some inactive members. We had a great lesson with a YSA named Jasmine, and at the end of the lesson she said she wants to come back to church and asked if we could remind her! We also found another guy who's interested! Elder Jones is fun to hang out with, and so is Matthew. He told us crazy stories from his mission the whole night.

Thursday we exchanged back and then went out with Spencer. We were able to teach the Rickers which was cool, and then we went and taught the Colliers! The Thatchers also joined us for that lesson, and it went really well. We talked about the Sabbath Day and Importance of it. We unfortunately had to take them off date because they haven't been coming to church recently, and it's really hard to pin them down and figure out why they won't come because they always give weak excuses. The Thatchers are going to do some family history right after church with them sometime though so hopefully that will work!

We also taught Jack which was super fun, we read the story of Ammon with him. He's praying about getting a Patriarchal blessing as well.

Friday evening was super fun! We ate at the Smith's house and they are hilarious haha--She is from England and has a great accent, and to add to that there is never a serious moment with her. She told us she had Baked each new item of food that was presented to us only to have her husband shaking his head in dismayed resignation with each new fib. All the (not home cooked) food was actually REALLY good though! And it was fun seeing a Tenis Player (Elder Gamett) and a Pickle Ball Player (Sister Smith) point out to each other which was better! We also went out with Hermano Velazquez which was great! Nobody answered but we got some referrals from him!

Saturday was Jacks Birthday so I marked up a hardcover Book of Mormon with all my favorite scriptures and gave it to him. We went out with Gene in his 3-seater truck, and visited some people in Rowlett again! We talked with Gene about Guns, Explosives, his mission, and the Marines the whole night which was very enjoyable. An inactive YSA we stopped by had moved but his parents said he wasn't interested in coming back right now. They said he wanted friends though! So Gene said "what does he like to do?" And they said he loves shooting! Gene is at school for Gunsmithing and works at a gun manufacturer so he was the perfect person to be with us! He will be reaching out to our YSA friend to go shooting soon. We also taught Diego and Gene was the perfect person for him too! In fact Genes brother and Diego are best friends! 

Sunday was long and fun as usual, most notably though Jack drove us to Plano to go to a Fireside! It was super fun, we got to see a ton of other missionaries there as well as President Seitz!

-Elder Nielson