The Usual

Hello!

This week was good. We had a fun time this week. Lazaro, the one from Cuba is great. He has a baptismal date in August. He hasn't been able to come to church yet because of work conflicts but pray that his boss will give him Sundays off. The reunion sounds like it was a blast. I'm glad everyone had a good time. Wish I could've been wake boarding with Ron! If you want to send pictures to my iPad you should have one of my siblings show you. It would be hard to explain. But basically you go to send me an email and hold down on the screen and hit insert photo or video. Then choose the one you want. To send more than one you'll have to do that a few times. But then you just hit send!

This year has flown by so far. And I feel like this first year, especially the last six months have been the hardest time in my mission. I'll finally be on the downward slope next month. 

Monday we did the usual. Usual Baytown pdays. We bowled, which I won I think. Then we went back to the church and emailed everyone , played basketball and chair soccer. Then we finished and went back, changed, and went to grab our dinner. Dinner was pretty good.

Tuesday was a blur and I don't really remember that day. That night, we met with Lazaro and had a good lesson with him. It is sad though because he has nothing in his apartment. Just one chair and a cooler to sit on. So afterwards we picked up a couch for him and brought it to his apartment. He was so happy! I also got him a suit and some ties and some shirts that were left behind by some other missionaries. He was super grateful. but Tuesday night we went on exchanges with English and I was in their area with Elder Lott.

Wednesday was really good. Elder Lott and I had a lot of fun. We worked out in the morning and got ready. We went out at about ten and tried some people to visit. No one answered. For lunch we all met up at Wendy's. After lunch we had comp study and I did a bit of language. We went back out after that. It was really hot Wednesday. We went on this one street and parked our car because we were going to walk to the house we needed to go to. Turned out it was on the other side of the road about eight blocks away. I got a little burnt from that. Afterwards we had dinner at a members house. They recently moved here from Utah because he got a job at one of the refineries. They were nice and we had lasagna. It was good!

Thursday was a blur too... I don't remember it really. Other than we had Spanish class in the morning and we ate dinner with the Chavez family. She makes good food. Oh and also we played dodgeball with the young men and leaders. My team won! My arm was sore though. Threw too fast!

Friday was such a fun day. We had district meeting but then afterwards I went on exchanges with Elder Asasy!! It was so fun! We stayed in my area for the first little bit and divided the work between us and Elder Carter and the other AP Elder Hasson. We tried a bunch of people and had a lot of cool experiences. We had a really cool contact with a guy and he was super solid. At around 3:30, we left Baytown and went to Eagle Springs, the APs area. We tried some people down there and it was so fun. The best part was dinner. We ate dinner with a Vietnamese family in their area named the Quaks. They were soooo cool. The husband spoke perfect English and the wife could speak it pretty good too. She just had a thick accent. They had three kids too that were so funny. We ate this amazing rice and pork dish with a sweet and salty sauce with garlic while. It was so good. Probably the best meal I've had on my mission so far! So I guess I'll go with dad to a Vietnamese restaurant when I get back. The two little girls made me a card too with a picture. It was cool. After that we headed back to Baytown and exchanged back. It was such a fun day.

Saturday was great too. We biked in the morning and were able to find some new investigators. No one really solid though. We went back and had lunch. The afternoon rained a bunch so we're weren't really able to do too much. Then for dinner we ate with a family that recently moved from El Salvador. They were so cool and the dinner was good.

Sunday was alright. We had to wake up really early because we had branch conference and a branch correlation meeting at 7. The stake presidency was there too. After church we had lunch like usual with the Rodriguez family. Great as usual. Then we tried some people and that was our day.

That was basically my week it was a good one! All is good here. Just really hot. Love y'all and have a good week.