Bean Sprout

Hey Everyone,

This will be a shorter one because there are fewer days then usual to report on. Thus week was incredibly packed though so I will start by illustrating that fact:

Monday wasn't pday so we had District Council and then exchanged with Rowlett 2.

Tuesday we exchanged back, and went to the Rowlett District Council. Then we went out with Jack that evening.

Wednesday we went to the temple.

Thursday we had the Greenville District Council, and then exchanged with Rowlett 1.

Friday we exchanged back early and then went to MLC.

Saturday we caught up on everything we were getting behind on.

Sunday was Easter, So our week was super busy!

Thursday was fun, I went to Rowlett 1 with Elder Odette. We went out with a member in their ward, and found a cool lady who put in a request to meet! She is going through a ton of hardships right now including her 28-year-old daughter passing away, and the Plan of Salvation answers all her questions! We also had a meeting with the RT1 Bishop, and it went super well! Elder Odette is cool, he has an attitude of "I'm here to change the area" which is prideful, but he's doing good things. Also got to play some chess with him!

Friday we had MLC, and there was a big focus on making Fasting more meaningful, and being genuine. We went to the Smith's house for dinner, and had some super good pizza that they cooked in a thing that cooks it in 30 seconds! We went out with Harrison and had a great lesson with Robert as well. 

On Saturday we did service at Helping Hands, got a bunch of meetings and planning done, and went our with Brother Ed Thatcher! He was the city manager for Heath for 15 years, and the mayor too at some point, so he knows literally everyone and everything in Heath! We would be driving down a road and he'd point to a random guy and say, "That's Jerry," and point between houses and say, "we ran the main sewer line through there" etc. It was super fun, he talked the whole night, and then gave us two referrals at the end of the night!

Sunday was Easter and we had a lot if fun going to church! Both sacrament meetings were pretty good, and Robert and Tony came to the YSA! (Robert's 4th time at church :)) We ate dinner at the Bevans, and helped them hide hundreds and hundreds of Easter Eggs for their family afterwards! We went out with Jovanni in the evening and visited a young family who some sisters in the west mission told us about. They let us in and apparently he's an inactive member and his wife and two kids are non-members! We set up a time to help build a playground, and then taught them a little lesson! They had gone to our church near Dallas for the first time that day, and had just been talking about missionaries, then we showed up!! And we got to take pictures in their Porsch too which was fun!

-Abe