Uneventful Week

Hello!

 I am doing great! My week wasn't too shabby. It was a bit uneventful however. Haven't had any crazy driving stories this week! Wow the house seems to be coming along! You guys should have it be blue or something cool! Not chocolate again! On Mother's Day I will skype so be prepared. Hopefully we can figure it out this time around so we don't have to use FaceTime again. It hasn't been raining too much here this week. It rained I think once or twice, and just for a moment. We are going to be getting into that season soon though. Since you guys have my plaque could y'all update the picture to a amore recent/better photo haha 

Last Monday was really fun. We did our laundry, emailed, and like the usual we played basketball for a long time. At Taco Bell there is a thing called happy hour. It's when their drinks and freezes are only a dollar! It's really nice on hot days to swing by and grab a strawberry starburst freeze. It really cools you down.

Tuesday we had a normal day. Finding and teaching. We ate with some members, the M family, and it was really good! They live in this really small trailer in old Baytown. It was humbling, they were so grateful for what they had!

Wednesday we had Spanish class with Hermano Pomeroy. He teaches us every week. That night Elder Brudsal, my MTC companion and Elder Riches son, was in Baytown on an exchange with the YSA elders. We met up at the new Krispy Kreme and were able to catch up a bit. He was the only one from the MTC I hadn't seen in a while. Didn't try the donuts though. Riches and I are on a health kick. We have been working out every morning and I've lost weight actually. We have cut out sugar and bad foods too. Even eat fast food less!

Thursday was a normal weekly planning day. Nothing really notable happened!

Friday was district meeting. Elder Riches and I taught a segment on spiritual gifts. It was really good! Don't tell Riches, but what we did was my idea haha We had a spiritual "auction". So what we did was we explain what spiritual gifts were, and how to get them. Then we presented what we call effort bucks to them. Effort bucks represent the effort that is needed to obtain a spiritual gift, like prayer and fasting etc. Each person got fifteen effort bucks to use to bid on various gifts. Then we had an auction! We bought candy boxes and attached a gift onto each one! As they were bought we explained what the gift was, and the person who bought it read off a tip and trick of how to develop the gift that we had written on the box of candy. Then at the end we talked about how we could use these gifts in our missionary work. It was a really fun segment. Everyone was laughing and participating. We all learned a lot about them and their significance. Elder Riches and I nailed that one!

Saturday was fun as well! We had a pass off lesson with the English Elders. We all taught a guy named Edgar that we found. He was cool and had good questions. It's too bad we had to refer him to English. He spoke Spanish and was Mexican but preferred English. That night we had a stake party at the church here in Baytown. It was really fun. Played kickball, a bit of football, and ate some barbecue. The activity didn't have too much people there. It was small compared to Utah! It felt like a ward party haha. But towards the end more people showed up so that was good. I don't know if you are part of the Texas Houston East Mission page on Facebook, but someone was taking pictures at the party and said he would post some pictures of us Elders.

Sunday was good. Church was great and afterward we got some tacos from some of our favorite members. The Rodriguez family is so fun. And she cooks some really good food! Other than that it was a normal day. Last night the English Elders came over and cut Riches' hair. They aren't professional... they buzzed his head on accident! It looks like Riches just got deployed in the army haha!! Luckily I was there and after they left, I cleaned up their mistakes with some scissors and it looks a lot better. They had left it all sorts of different lengths, and shaved one side by his ear on accident. It was funny.

Well I hope everyone has a good week! I love y'all!