I would like to personally thank everyone for sending me a email about hostess going out of business... heaven knows this girl likes her twinkies!!! But luckily Little Debbie will never leave me hangin! I swear those things are a blessin from above!
I said last week wasn't the best but that just met something great was coming... well heavenly father sure did bless us this week!
Lets take a journey back in time till Tuesday. We went up to Abilene for Zone Conference. First awesomeness road trip! but then the day just got better when we got to hear from our mission president and the zone leaders! Pres. Augustin talked to us a lot about how we are called to be the teachers not the members. The members should be the finders. Obviously we will stil knock and try to find people but our main priority is to teach them! I never really understood how important it is cause the members cant teach them the lessons before they get baptized the missionaries have to do it. We have been called to do that and its awesome! Also during Zone Conference me and my companion were called to do a practice teaching thing infront of everyone. Luckily the spirit is awesome and helped me out a lot! its crazy how even when you are "just pretending" the spirit can be there and be that strong! After everyone said how they could feel the spirit too so it was awesome!
Next we got not one but 2 bap dates this week that are super legit! first is Eric. We found him at another investigators house and he said he wanted to learn more. So we met him at a park (funny story about that later) after getting to talk to him the spirit told us to teach him the Plan Of Salvation. It was really sad because he said he had never experienced true happiness and that he wanted to change and feel that. We obviously told him that happiness comes thru the gospel. He decided to get baptized Dec. 8th! I feel so bad for him because he has super bad anxiety around big groups of people and I know a little how that feels so I hope I can help him in some way. He came to church sunday and liked it but was outside for a lot of it because he was so nervous.
Next bap date! John! HOLY COW, HOLY COW!!! our lesson with john was awesome! He showed up to church sunday with a friend and said he wanted to learn more. So we gave him a Book Of Mormon and he got a Gospel principles book from someone. by the time we met with him on saturday he had read the whole gospel principles book all of 1 nephi and skipped around and read a lot of Alma too! He said he highlighted a few questions in the principles book and we taught him a quick Plan of Salvation to answer those. The spirit was already strong. He said right now the only problem was a modern day prophet. So we went into the restoration. The spirit just kept growing and growing! then when Sis. Neilson said the first vision it took everything in me not to cry! after the John said with the biggest smile on his face. Thats awesome! all my questions are answered! It really was amazing! The rest of the lesson was fantastic and he accepted a bap date for dec. 8th as well!
So the thing that stinks is transfurs are this week... so I may not even be here to see these two get baptized! and we have Hope that put an offer on a house this week so she could get baptized dec. 18th! I'm okay if I leave cause I know that where heavenly father needs me to be. but I sure will miss San Angelo if I do leave.
On the bright side I had a great story!
So we got to the park we were meeting Eric at like 15 minutes early. So we were sitting there enjoying the sun. Keep in mind I dont know what happened to me on my mission but I now have a huge fear of birds... like real bad... So we're sitting there and I see the 3 geese.. and they are looking pretty scetchy and im all umm sis. neilson they are planning an attack. Of course she was like birds dont attack people and im all shoot have you ever seen the movie Birds! thats the scarriest movie on this planet! Anyway so these geese start walking straight to us like sneaky little devils... they started out a good 50ft. away... within 2 minutes they were like 10 ft. away and im all these things are definatly gonna attack! then all the sudden they start flappin those creepy wings and honkin at us. So I grab my stuff and I run! then I realize my companion is just sitting there laughing! I know this is no joking matter! so I said sis neilson you get over here! they are in attack mode! So finally we hid behind this little table thing.. at this point im crying cause im thinking oh my gosh im gonna die cause a stupid geese things im trying to hurt him. So I remembered aron ralston had his video camera while he was between a rock and a hard place so I got mine out to film my attack. (sorry i forgot the chord or I'd send the video) anyway luckily Eric showed up so we got a table as far away from the geese and had an awesome lesson!
So yeah this week was pretty fantastic! and I didn't die from a geese attack. I love ya'll so much! thanks for your support and have a wonderful thanksgiving!!!
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