Laurence Laurentz

 

Hi everyone!

This was a great week full of many things, but as usual I don't want to take forever writing an email so I will condense as much as possible.

Monday we mostly did a bunch of errands, one of which was going to the chiropractor for Elder Gamett cause he's been having neck problems. Jack came in to work early just so he could say hi to us, and strapped Elder Gamett to the electrocution device and took his blood pressure as well haha

We went out with my favorite ward missionary Brother Hobbs in the evening, and had a good member lesson with the Jones family, and then met up at the church and taught Robert and Tony! It was super good, we taught the Plan of Salvation and Brother Hobbs was super helpful.

Tuesday after district council we did some mulch-spreading and trimming for Ruth, and talked to her about memories from her life as we worked. Whenever she wasn't outside we talked about the Clone Wars and Rebels of course. In the evening we went out with Brother McCormick and his son Miles. We had dinner with them and the Davis family, and also visited some other families. At around 7:45 we got a call from the sisters asking us to come to a surprise pass-off lesson with a guy named Ryan at 8:15! The McCormicks had to leave at 8 so we would have no member with us. So we called Jack 15 minutes before the lesson and he said, "I'll be there." It was super awesome, Jack liked coming to the lesson with us, and Ryan said he'd come to church!

Wednesday we had park-your-car day, and luckily it wasn't too cold. :) We had dinner with Kristen from the YSA, and since she couldn't pick us up alone, we had another YSA named Jovanni pick us and her up! We went to Hawaiian Bros which is usually pretty good, especially the Dole Whip! In the evening we went out with Spencer, and he got us some drinks and cookie dough bites from Bucky's as we visited people in Royse City.

On Thursday we did service at Helping Hands, and then Jack picked us up around 1:30 and spent the entire day with us until about 9:30 pm haha

It was so much fun, we went down to Terrell, and visited some people at a very run-down apartment complex. We talked to some cool people, took some pictures of some Mustangs, and Jack managed to grab a stray cat as well! Jack also joined us for the Zone Call, and went with us to dinner with Brother Linn at Denny's. After dinner it started storming really bad so we decided to head out to Rowlett ;) 

We drove out and met a few Spanish-speaking YSA members, and set up some lessons! We also had an SPR meeting, and then went to the church and had an awesome lesson with Robert! Jack remembered when Elder Sauer taught him Sea-tur-tle as a way to remember which kingdom of glory is which, and taught Robert the same, rather proudly haha

We read in Mosiah 18, and put Robert on date for baptism on April 15th! It was a super fun day, a ton happened but I am running low on time.

Friday we did weekly planning, and then after our studies we had interviews with president. Then we drove out to Rowlett at a poorly-planned time (rush hour) and exchanged with Rowlett 3. I stayed there with Elder Jones and spent the whole night nodding along as he taught and talked to people in Spanish

On Saturday we exchanged back, and then helped someone move some fridges in Garland, and in the evening we went out to Caddo Mills with Justin! It was fun we got to see his new house hes having built, and then had another super cool lesson with Tony and Robert.

On Sunday we nobody showed up for church, but then in the first 10 minutes of church Robert, Scott, and Ryan all showed up! It was super cool!

-Abe