Big Honk

Hi Everyone, 

This week we had so much happen that its going to be hard to fit it all in this email. I will try to hit the highlights!

Monday nothing too eventful happened, we played some pickleball and went out with Brother Cline in his '06 Mustang. We talked about cars basically the whole night which was fun. We were also able to have a member lesson with Sister Wilson, and had a great lesson about Charity! We also ran into a lady named Ruth, who was gathering up dead grasses she had been trimming, and so we asked if she needed help! She said yes and we set up a time to come help the next day. She said she'd been wondering and praying how she was going to do it all herself!

Tuesday we had District council in the morning, and then went and helped Ruth! She was very impressed that we had stayed true to our word and returned to help! After service, we went and exchanged with the APs. I went with Elder Gardner again back to Heath, and we had a fun night! We went out with Ruben and had some cool lessons, and he even came to our dinner appointment with us! He's so good at talking to people, so we just sat back and let him talk to the people we taught. We went and taught the Davis family and they had 3 nonmember friends there as a surprise for us! 

Wednesday we exchanged back, and then drove up to Greenville for their District Council! It was interesting to see the difference in dynamics between the Districts, it was great to see everyone was getting along! In the evening we went out with Brother Berg, and had a drop lesson with Eddie and Karen. It went pretty well, even though Eddie is reading the Book of Mormon and knows its true, we told him we can't keep teaching him unless he comes to church. Brother Berg was very blunt with him and basically told him that in his line of work as a doctor he has to tell people to excersize, and if they won't help themselves he can't help them haha--Eddie was very understanding, we said when he comes to church we will start teaching him again though!

Thursday was a wild day, we ate lunch with Jack and then went out with him in the afternoon. We stopped by a girl named Madison, who we had tried stopping by before, and her dad had said she was still interested but was working. So he had told us to come back either Saturday or before 4 pm on a weekday. Last Saturday night we stopped by around 7 pm, and a different lady answered the door and said "what are you doing here it's the middle of the night!" It was 7 pm. She told us not to come by when it's late, so we thought to ourselves, "okay, we will try during the day then, since Saturday didn't work." We went by with Jack, and there was no answer. We left a note and drove away, then 5 minutes later we got a call from that same lady. She said she had found the card, and that we should come back. She didn't sound mad, but also didn't sound pleased with us. We said "sure" and then when we hung up we realized that maybe we shouldn't have been do hasty to comply. Jack and Elder Gamett thought we should go back though, so we did. When we got out of the car, that same guy who told us a few weeks ago to come back came out and started yelling at us! He said a bunch of colorful words and threatened us to never ever come back. Jack tried his best to hold in a slight smile, but let it slip slightly because then the guy got up in his face and asked "do you think this is funny?!?" And started backing him down. He was saying all sorts of nonsense about how he could beat us up etc. but we left and drove away. Jack was very pleased we had returned, and was talking about how exciting that was for the rest of the day haha

We also found a lady who had come to our church before, and Elder Gamett was able to teach her! (She spoke Spanish, so Jack and I just nodded along and relaxed)

Jack dropped us off at our dinner, and then after dinner we went out with Spencer. All day we had been hearing about this supposed "big storm" rolling in, but had seen only small clouds and felt only sprinkling rain. Spencer said there might be storms coming too, but it looked fine so we drove up to Royse City. On the way up, we got an emergency Storm alert, so we decided to pray about if we should return or not. We felt like we should go back, so we drove home and on the way the storm hit super bad! It was sooo windy and stormy and as we drove the power was slowly going out behind us along the freeway. It started to hit super bad so we decided this was an emergency situation and just drove into our garage with Spencer. We didn't want him to have to drive home in it, so he just hung out with us for a couple hours! And we were able to have a cool phone lesson and watch the lightning through the windows with the lights off which was great!

Friday we drove to Allen for a Safety Meeting, and in the evening went out with Brother Fielding! It was super cool, he told us all about his job, and we were able to have an amazing lesson with the Youngs! Brother Fielding is a lawyer, and he put down an ironclad case for why our church is the best, and is going to have the Youngs over for dinner soon too! He has a commanding presence, that I would never want to be up against in court! Especially since he's one if the top litigation attorneys in the nation according to many in the ward.

Saturday we did a bunch of service, and in the evening drove around with Gene. Gene was able to connect with some of the people we saw as usual, and he got us Blizzards!

That's all I have time to write this week

-Abe