Brick

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We had a really good week! Had lots of fun, and met some really cool people. 

Monday Elder Freeman and Elder Haymond came up to Magnolia for pday, so we shopped with them, and the went over to the Flower's house! We spent basically all of pday with Logan and Sarah, got to play lots of board and card games (including Cover Your Assets!). We also ate all day as we played including:

▪︎ Andes Mint Cookies

▪︎ A cucumber

▪︎ Cuties

▪︎ Chips and Salsa

▪︎ Drinks 

▪︎ Mini ham and cheese sliders

▪︎ Popsicles

▪︎ Rotisserie Chicken

▪︎ Other cookies

▪︎ Apples

In the evening all 4 of us went up to Waldo and taught Xavier! It was super fun, we taught him the Word of Wisdom and he loved it all and is already keeping it besides the fact that he was wearing a big "WEED" bucket hat through the whole lesson haha-- Also taught him the Law of Chastity. Then we went and taught David and Charlien as well. 

Tuesday we has district council in Magnolia, and so Minden came up as well. After District council the Millers got us pizza, and then the APs showed up with all of their furniture and we helped them move into their new apartment! Then us and the Brownlee Elders drove to Springhill and had a member lesson with the Jacobs. Sam Jacobs likes to bash missionaries apparently, and so he started talking about the premarital life and so on, and the only problem is he didn't know anything about what he was talking about, and we didn't really know what he meant by his questions. Nothing was accomplished in this lesson, we all went out very confused and dumber than when we went in haha-- we also talked to a lady named Uganda who we found out was just talking to us to be nice tsk tsk. She also misplaced her Book of Mormon when she brought it to her pastor...

We had dinner with the Marchans, and then drove back to Magnolia and Elder Freeman gave Charlien her Baptismal interview while Elder Haymond and I went and taught Bill the Gospel. He loved it, and said he's been praying and reading the Book of Mormon every day, and as he reads the spirit has made it crystal clear and he thinks it's true! Once he can come to church he will get baptized for sure. Then the 4 of us walked around the campus and talked to some students who were wandering around. When we got in for the night we finally got to eat a giant bowl of banana pudding that we had been keeping hidden throughout the day so that none of the other missionaries would want it. It was given to us by Royce, and the 4 of us ate it very quickly :)

I also taught everyone in the apartment how to solve various degrees of Rubiks Cube.

On Wednesday we all did service at the Thrift store, and then went and ate lunch at Sam's Southern Eatery in Springhill. After that we said goodbye to the other Elders, and realized hours later we had forgotten to get the jumpsuit for Charliens baptism from them! Bad. We taught Tawanna, and Elder Davis said his goodbyes (which is always a mistake, because then you always end up seeing them again). 

Thursday we walked the dogs, and got to walk some new ones. Both of them walked with their rear ends up and their noses down to the ground for some reason. And they kept trying to eat the grass and jump in a puddle that we always pass. We got to teach Bill again, and afterwards walked around his area and got 3 new phone numbers!! Then we went with the Millers and taught Becky and her kids again, and they are going to try and come to church. We taught them about the organization of the church, and the kids seemed to grasp it better than Becky!

On Friday Mike Mass took us down to Taylor to help work on the Mayor's house again. We put a ton of joint compound on the ceilings and walls, and while we worked Brother Mass gave us lots of good life advice, such as not letting our future wives ask to do an accent room because of the extreme amount of work required. :)

We also taught Xavier about the Baptismal questions, and then went to Haynesville with the Millers! We stopped in Emerson first, and one of the people we were trying to visit was not accessible by car due to the roads being full of fire engines and ambulances. Much to the Millers dismay Elder Davis and I told them to stop the car and we embarked on foot! We aren't ever one to pass up a good fire. :) we walked past all the commotion until we were walking in the thick of Firemen running back and forth. We walked so purposefully that they didn't even bat an eye at us and we walked right up to the burning house. It was billowing black smoke and was completely destroyed in every way with the roof collapsing inward! The Millers were not near as confident as us and they got asked to stay out of the way haha

After Emerson we drove to Haynesville and I finally got to meet Quincy! He was going to get baptized right before I got here but then he went to jail. :*( But now hes out! :)

He is a very jolly guy haha--we also picked up the Baptismal clothing from the Minden apartment.

Saturday wasnt super eventful, but Charlien got baptized! It went so well she was so happy afterwards. We ate with her, the Millers, and the Masses at Atuguas afterward which was excellent as usual. 

Then we got in a bash with Kaitlyn and her recent convert friend from another ward that clearly didn't fully understand our beliefs yet and so he was just as confused as her when we talked about the imperfections of the Bible. He was nice though, and helped her see more reason than we could. Some people just dont think critically sadly. 

After the bash I finalized the Sunday program, and Xavier had his Baptismal interview. 

In the evening we taught Bill who got super excited when we taught him about Baptisms for the Dead! He wants to be baptized for his dad. 

Sunday we confirmed Charlien, and then we also had Becky, Carson, David, Farod, Fatima, Xavier, Star, and Jay come to church! Tyre also came as usual. After church we ate some Stew at the church with the Bahrs, and we taught some of Tyres friends in the evening!!

-Abe