Biggest. Bike area. Ever.

Hey guys, what's up? Just to clarify, Haltom City is my area, Hurst Stake, Hurst Zone, and Hurst 3rd Ward is my ward. My area is pretty huge for a bike area, which is rough because there is people everywhere, and it takes like 30-45 minutes between appointments sometimes, so I am pure sweat and whatnot when I knock on peoples doors. Maybe that's why people don't listen haha (my excuse). Everything has been going good, we got to know the new area this week. I found out there are 30 members in my area, and 27 are inactive. The other 3 live in the opposite corner of my area (45 minutes each way at the fastest) haha, so I don't work with active members too much here. This area needs a ton of help. Hopefully Elder Petersen and I can do something here.

Elder Petersen is really... quiet. We don't talk a ton. He is a good guy and whatnot for sure though.
Anywhey, not a ton happened this week. There was another baptism on Saturday, and there will be one today and Saturday. This district is killing it, and it is awesome. Love You Guys!

Love,
Cole

Haltom City Roolz

Hi guys! Haltom City Roolz!

My new comp is Elder Petersen, he has been out for about 5 more months than me, and he's from Washington (state). The new apartment is pretty old. The last few missionaries haven't been super clean, it looked like Cole's room pre-surg. tech. Haha, but now it looks more like cole's room post- surg. tech. Also, it is so dang squeaky. Literally everything squeaks. The floors, chairs, stairs, doors, like everything haha. My new area is pretty sweet. It is a HUGE bike area, which kinda stinks because the church is the complete opposite of all of our work, but other than that it is awesome. Like half of the map is pure saturated w/ Mexicans. The bike is alright, I can still ride pretty good and whatnot and I don't get that tired. Hopefully by the time this transfer ends I'm not so dang fat anymore. Our ward is super missionary focused and it is so sick! There are 5 sets of missionaries in this one ward. They are all in my district. They all had killer weeks too, there was 3 baptisms on Saturday, it was an awesome week.

Elder Peterson and I were both new to the area, and whitewashing it was pretty rough. All of our appointments cancelled, and nobody was outside or nothing to teach. We have been outside tracting/ contacting for about 6 hours a day (minimum) with a teeny bit of luck haha. Until Sunday night, we didn't even get into a house, just teaching doorstep lessons. It was pretty rough, but it's looking up now.

Haha, this place is super sick though, on Saturday there was a party in the church, and some guy rented 2 bouncy houses that they blew up in the gym haha, it was so cool. Anywhey, Hurst is sick. Have a good week!

Love,

Cole

Haltom City Hoodrats

Hey, whadda ya say?

I don't have a ton of time to write y'all, but it sounds like it was an awesome memorial day weekend. The bikeride looked and sounded... fun haha jk. But that is really super sick haha. 

So guess what? I'm getting transferred to be a Haltom City Hoodrat haha. I'm gonna go be on the bike again, with Elder Peterson. The only thing I've heard about him is that he's older than me (on the mission). I'm pretty excited, I've heard that this area is pure mexicans as far as the eye can see. Haha, starting Wednesday morning, we're going to blitz this new area. Look out Haltom, there's a new sheriff in town. 

Here's my new address-

4808 Waldemar St. 

#128

Haltom City, Texas 76117

Love y'all bye!

Cole

Yo como coco pero poco coco como como poco coco compro

Herro. Haha, I have had a pretty solid week this week. I feel like every week builds up to the climax of Sunday morning, aka trying to get people to church. On Saturday night when we went to bed, we had 13 logical, committed people who were going to come to church in like 12 hours. By the time 9:30 rolled around, we had like 4 possible, and then 2 showed up. I know it isn't the measure of success because of agency and whatnot (stupid agency), but I wish these ninos would just come to church haha. It would bring peace to my soul. Anywheys, in other news, transfers are coming up soon, on the 28th. Next week, I'll know where I'll be going to spend the next few months of my mission (most likely here in Denton. Woo!).  

I think here we tract more than other missions possibly. I find that tracting is an effective use of time still, if you can find an area saturated enough with hispanic people aka trailer parks haha. Although, someone once said "the elect don't live in trailer parks." Food for thought I guess as I try to find the best way to do missionary work. 

The other thing I think about Texas Fort Worth is that here, we need to know our scriptures. Really well. People (especially spanish people) will believe the written word way over the spoken. Haha, I feel like I have learned how to teach from the scriptures, and how to back up the things I teach with the Bible and the Book of Mormon. 

Y'all sound like your doing good. Mom said Nate was acting all serious or some mischief like that, so that was concerning. Haha, I'm doing good here too. Haha, 7 1/2 months and still kickin. Anywhey, hope all the goofin and whatnot goes whell this week.

Love,

Cole

Prayers of a Righteous Mother

Happy Mother's day Mom! Haha, we just talked yesterday, so there isn't much to say to y'all. Everything is pretty much the same, next week looks like a normal week for me. I came across this quote and thought it was cool. 

“THERE ARE FEW THINGS MORE POWERFUL THAN THE PRAYERS OF A RIGHTEOUS MOTHER.” -Boyd K. Packer

So, basically, listen to Mom. Bye, Love you - Cole

The Pictures:

1. Ha ha P-Day Trio fun

2. Raising the bar w/ Mini tags

3. Golf Ball Hail from Tornado

4. The trio #1

5. The trio #2

6. Cool Sunset thingy

7. Mijo y yo (Elder Tanner & I)

8. More facebook pictures

"Love Y'all - Cole"

Shenanigans and Witchcraft

That is pretty crazy that David got married. I bet it was a fun wedding full of shenanigans and all that witchcraft though haha. Sounds like y'all had a busy week haha, that is always good though. I think everything is going good right now here. It's been fun and whatnot. 

This week all the Spanish missionaries in the mission went to Hurst and had a meeting, it was pretty cool to see all of them. I got to see all the missionaries that I know and it is always awesome to hear President Ames talk. It's good stuff. Also, he's coming up here for a Zone conference on Wednesday, so we get double blessings haha. Lots of good stuff.

So, it's starting to get pretty warm here. The car thermometer said it hit 99 yesterday, but it was probably 90ish. I am pretty morbidly excited for the Texas heat though, I can't explain why. 

Anywhey, I get to call y'all this week. On Sunday, I will probably be calling between 4:30 and 5:30 (probably closer to 4:30) here time. Another sweet thing, President Ames gave us 20 more minutes so we can talk for an hour. It'll be good but I'm kinda scared haha. Dalton's gonna sound like a man or somesing. 

All of our investigators are pretty much the same. I feel like it is almost stagnant here right now, we need to kick it up and change or something, we just haven't been able to find the elect or something, but we made some sweet plans and whatnot for this week, so we'll see where that takes us. 

Love y'all and we'll talk on Sunday,

Cole

Letter from the President

So proud of Cole that he is using his Leadership skills and gets to train a new Missionary!