Hey Family,
Thanks for all the birthday wishes and letters and whatnot.
Y'all are awesome. We've had a pretty busy week. I can't believe that it's only
been a week haha. Anywhey...
Monday- We had a dinner with a less active member who just
moved to Texas. She was super nice, and invited two of her friends to eat with
us. She kept talking about how awesome the Book of Mormon is and how they need
to be baptized hahaha. It is pretty interesting how most of the time the less
active members are more willing to share the gospel.
Tuesday- We drove down to Mexia in the Van. Haha, the van is
awesome. It's a big old 15 passenger van that starts shaking when you hit about
55. Elder Ray and the assistants and I had a nice little road trip down there,
and then we came right back up. Haha, it's always way different when you spend
half the day in the car.
Wednesday- We went back to Mexia, exchanged with those
Elders, then we went to Killeen. We had a sweet lunch down there, then we
exchanged on the way back up, and I stayed in Temple. Temple is a really nice
town, super quiet. There aren't a ton of Spanish people down there
though.
Thursday- We woke up early to some crazy miscommunication.
The mission has been churning along with the iPads, but not all of the
missionaries get it right away, and they start freelancing and cause problems
haha. Elder Ray got down to Temple around 11, and we started teaching the bears
how to read (old people to use an iPad). It went... about as we expected
hahaha. We finished up, and drove back. That night, we went to a members house
and it was a super white people dinner haha, it was weird (but the food was
good). Good day.
Friday- We drove down to Fort Worth and exchanged. Haha, it
was a really good exchange. We were looking for service to do, and we found
this animal shelter. We got in there and they basically assigned us to play
with dogs for a few hours hahah. It was really fun. We had a couple good
lessons right after that.
Saturday- We drove down to Fort Worth and exchanged back
early in the morning, and then we had a few meetings to go to. We did another
iPad training in Arlington, and then we came home and had an awesome lesson
with a family. After the lesson, the kids kept saying they wanted to be
missionaries. Good stuff.
Sunday- After a year of being poking and prodding here in
the ward, our bishop is finally starting to work on a ward mission plan. Haha!
Little by little. A few members gave me some presents at church. Haha, I wanted
to keep it on the DL but since I was here last year they already knew haha.
President and Sister Ames came and spoke in our ward. He had sent us his talk a
few days earlier, and we translated it for him. He was going to talk in
spanish, but then got nervous and didn't. He bore his testimony in spanish
though and it was great. You could hear a pin drop. That was the quietest I
have ever heard a church ever. You didn't even want to breathe. It was great!
They stayed all three hours and tried to participate in the classes. After
church, they came and ate lunch with us hahah. Good sunday. Right after church
we did a double exchange (where I go with a member and Elder Ray with a
different member) and taught like 6 families in an hour and a half after
church, so that was great.
Monday (today)- We've already had a busy morning. We woke up
early this morning, and drove into the mission office. Then we all piled into
the van (I was volunteered to drive), and drove about 45 minutes into the
Dallas mission. Boo. Anyways, we drove into a Chevy dealership and picked up 5
new Colorados. I drove a brand new 2015 Colorado off the lot haha, so today was
a good day too. Then, we had the last (kind of) of the Senior Couple iPad
meetings. It went really well. Haha, senior couple missionaries talk way more
than us yung gunz, I'll tell you that much. There were a couple stubborn
couples that said they wouldn't attend their meeting, so at some point we'll
have to go train them individually. Other than that, operation Old People vs.
iPads has been a success.
All in all, it's goin' good over here. Still workin' hard.
It's still real hot over here. Good stuff, just all good stuff.
Love,
Cole
P.S. I forgot my camera, sorry.
P.P.S. I also forgot my camera all week so there are no
pictures on there anyway.
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