Crazy Caterpillar

Hello!

It didn't really rain at all this past week. It was pretty nice, just a bit windy a couple of days out here. The next few days this week it is supposed to rain however. And I heard one of them it will rain really bad. It's getting really hot out here. It's been real bad some days, but we have had a couple cool days like Saturday. Being hot and humid isn't the best combination out there. You'll be sitting in the car with the a/c on and once you get out you start sweating because it's so hot and humid. They never caught the guy that shot the cop, or at least I haven't heard anything about it. Baytown has been pretty  crazy since then though. Cops are everywhere right now. They had a funeral for the guy and traffic was bad. Super busy. The town has been supporting him though, lots of stuff like "back the blue" signs everywhere.

Carlos was set for the 15th but we will have to push it back because he has not been to church yet. His schedule has been super busy because he works in taxes and he has had to work a ton. Pray that he can come to church. Other than that we really have no solid people. We have a lot of new investigators but none of them are really genuinely interested. The people in this area are rough to work with.

It's hard to email them back if they don't email me in the first place! I try my best to email them but I haven't got one from any of them for a while.

Wow the house already had an offer? That's so cool! Hopefully everything with that goes smoothly. I'm excited to be able to come home to a new house. I wasn't attached to the other one so it'll be good.

I was able to find pants! I didn't spend all the money so I thought it would be a good idea to transfer what I had left to savings so I wouldn't spend it all. You know how I am! I'm an Impulsive buyer!

Not much is new with me this week. We had zone conference, and zone meeting both in the same week. Friday and Wednesday. They were long. One day we were at a members house for dinner, and during the prayer Elder Riches tapped my arm. I opened one of my eyes just a bit and saw Riches pointing at a huge caterpillar crawling on his arm! He then flicked it off his arm onto the floor. It was so funny I was trying so hard not to laugh!! We had no idea how the caterpillar got there.


Mexican food is still not growing on me! Luckily here in Baytown the members are actually pretty good cooks. And some of them cook other stuff too so it's not just Mexican food all of the time here. It is nice. We even get the occasional dominoes pizza! Those days are really good days. I met this crazy catholic guy the other day. We were on exchanges and I was with Elder Dial in the English area. We were talking to him, his family are members, but he feels he does not need to be baptized again. We mentioned that we believe it needs to be done by the proper authority, and he freaked out at us! Yelling and calling us arrogant. He was mad that we thought we were the only church with the priesthood. He went so crazy! So that was interesting.

That's about it for this week. Love y'all have a good one

Who knew Texas was so green?

Hello hello

Howdy is a good word to use as I am feeling more of a Texan now. A member here has given me a few belt buckles and wants to take me shopping to go get a real Texan belt for it. Who would've thought! We had so much rain here! Wednesday rained so hard! The apartment complex flooded really bad, not up to our apartment though. We were lucky. Elder Riches and I couldn't go anywhere because of the weather, so we decided to have fun! We changed clothes and went out in the pouring rain. We ran around, jumped in puddles, and went swinging on the swing set. Talk about good stress reliever.

Carlos is doing good. We have him on date for the 15th, but he hasn't been coming to church because things have come up. Pray that he will be able to and that he can be baptized. He's so close!

From Baytown the temple is about an hour and a half, on the other side of Houston. It is outside of our mission so we are lucky we can go. We missed our session though when we went so we had to wait. Whoops

Conference was great! It's different though, watching it here at a chapel and not in our home eating some puppy chow. I miss our traditions like the egg mcmuffins! I enjoyed all of the talks, they were really good. Elder Holland always gives good ones! I really liked Choi's was that his name? I busted out laughing when he said to look up, open our mouths, and drink it. I don't know why but it was real funny to me and my companion.

Last couple of weeks none of my siblings have emailed me. That's a shame isn't it!

Elder Riches and I had a lot of really cool adventures this week. We were able to go all the way down to tri city beach because we had extra miles at the end of the month. It was cool, had a cool view. That's where we took all the panoramas. Way out we could see big ol cargo ships moving around. Tuesday we went out biking and came across a forest trail. It was really cool and who knew Texas was so green? I never would have guessed Houston was a tropical climate. It's nuts!

With Easter coming up, have y'all seen the Prince of Peace initiative? That will be really cool, similar to light the world. The videos are really good. Jesus Christ really is our Savior and Redeemer.

Have a good week y'all. Love you!

"Animal rescuers part 2! This little guy is Jo. We were out and about and Jo was in the middle of nowhere all by himself! Poor Jo. Time to find little Jo a home."

"Just us and our trip to the bayou"

"This mornings forest adventure. Who knew Texas was this green?" 

"Would you look at that A-Aron and Kat"

 "Why is there two of me?"

"Our adventure to the bay while finding homies to teach"

 

"Couldn't really swim well here. Just a few feet away there was a puddle up past our ankles mid-calf"

"Wowza"

"Current situation here in the great state of Texas. Hope our apartment doesn't flood!" 

"Good ol' dinner"

Utah St.

Hello!

This week flew by really quickly!! Feels like last pday was yesterday!

Week want tooo interesting. Did find a few people to teach. They aren't too solid however. Both Catholics and are a bit stubborn. One has lots of interest though, at least in learning about us so that is good.

Friday we were going to lunch to chick fil a but my companion wanted chipotle just across the street. So we parked at chick fil a and went to chipotle. On the way back though as we were walking, a guy pulled over in front of us and asked for a Book of Mormon. He got to asking about us and where we were from. I originally told him I was from Utah, but then he told us he's from Wyoming! So I told him I was born in Cody, and that's where he was from!! So we told him we would meet him at chick fil a to talk some more. He got in and we talked about the Book (Dad, he's Jewish  and is fluent in Hebrew) then we got to talking about Wyoming! He lived there till he was sixteen then his family moved to Thermopolis, but still had family in Cody and visited often. He worked at some family owned steakhouse. I don't remember where though I think it was called Cassie's or Kaseys I don't remember.. we talked about all sorts of Wyoming stuff! Apparently there is a car in the reservoir by the dam, and it was his fault haha. He said he was camping but left his car in neutral and it rolled into the water and was lost haha. It was so cool! Too bad we had to refer him though. He loved just outside our mission by humble and was only in Baytown for work. If my companion never wanted to go to chipotle we never would have met the guy!

I was super super sick on Wednesday. Like really sick! Couldn't move or anything without just being in a ton of pain. It got better that night and when I woke up I still felt real sick but was well enough to do stuff. Didn't feel fully better till Friday.

Tuesday was fun. That was the day we went to Utah street and down to the docks. It was a blast! The docks were so cool. It was in a neighborhood and all the houses had properties that led out to the water and they all had their own dock. But there was one that was not owned and without a house. Just a property with a dock so we went and got to look at the bay. It was a cool view from where we were.

Those were the highlights of the week. Not much else has happened. Just working hard! This week we get to go to the temple so that will be great!

Have a good week. Love y'all

"Guys, I'm in Utah!" 

"We build chairs for members"

"On the docks"

"Just Chillin"

Catching Lizards

 Hello hello

Things were good this week! We were able to find some new investigators, none of them are super solid but hopefully that'll change. 

This week wasn't too shabby. There were a few funny things! So on Tuesday we were out finding and we stopped at a some formers house. We knocked and no one answered, and no one appeared to be home. But then something caught our eyes... lizards! There were like ten of them! We decided we wanted to catch some! The only problem is that they were on the man's house and in his bushes. Well we thought he wasn't home so we continued our efforts in trying to catch a lizard. We got one and were going after another when the front door opened. This big black guy was standing there and said, "it's a little weird that y'all are hanging out here by my window." It was so awkward! We just told him we were catching a lizard and left haha! It was pretty funny! 

Elder riches got pink eye this week. Doctor and Sister drake had us stay inside for 24 hours. That's wasn't very fun. But we went to the English elders apartment and that is where we combated a spider problem. They had been having a problem with wolf spiders all over their apartment. So we went in looking for the source! We never found it unfortunately, but we did kill a few other bugs so that was cool. And luckily I have an awesome immune system and didn't get pink eye too!! 

We had zone meeting this week too. It is a treat to get to go out to Pasadena every time for it. It's always fun to get out and about. 

We had our usual basketball tournament service activity. Then that night we had stake conference adult session in broadway. We were pretty close to downtown Houston! At the end of the session, the seventy that was there, Elder Stoddard, called up all the missionaries to the front to answer a question. We all went up and lined up and he got a microphone for us to answer. Elder Martinez and I were at the very end of the line and he walked over to us to start. He came up to us and we looked at him then I looked at Martinez and then pointed at Martinez and patted him on the shoulder. Saying you got this. So he chose Martinez to answer and not me hahaha!! Then he continued down the line randomly choosing missionaries to answer. I got lucky!

That Saturday night we were walking to our apartment and a bunch of frogs were out hopping and gathering by this tree (it had been raining for quite some time before this) there was a puddle by the tree with lots of them in it! So we went and changed then went frog hunting! We caught a lot of frogs! But we let them go. It was fun. 

Sunday, we had stake conference and it was really good. We went with some of our favorite members here and afterwards ate tamales that some members gave us at our apartment. They were pretty good!

Other than that we just worked with members this week and did some finding. Everything is good here!

Have a great week. Love y'all

Battleship Texas

Hi y'all

All is good here in Texas! Didn't get to meet with Nicole. We fasted that someone would listen to us and that Nicole would be there at our lesson, but it fell through so we dropped her. All our appointments with her has fallen through. So annoying. 

We haven't seen Delos in 2 weeks unfortunately! We miss that lil guy. 

Went to Battleship Texas last p-day! It was so fun! We met up with some other Elders and took a tour of the place. It was a legit battleship that had been used in WWII. It was even in the d-day invasion so that was really neat. We got to go in it and all about the deck. Then after we went just on the other side of the park to the memorial. It's a huge monument like the Washington monument. We took an elevator up to the top and got to see a cool view. I finally broke and got a belt buckle. I must be a Texan now weird huh! 

We had zone conference Wednesday in Pasadena. That's about thirty minutes from Baytown and basically Houston. Afterwards we drove back to Baytown and met up with a recent convert from Beaumont, who I had become close friends with last two transfers. He took us out to Cheddars. It was really good! I got a lemon pepper whitetail fillet. Yum! His name is Rudy Ramirez. He is super cool, and actually lives closer to Baytown than Beaumont. About twenty minutes from us and an hour from Beaumont, but how the boundaries work he is in the other branch. He wants to come out with us to teach sometime he is off work! I feel like we will be lifelong friends! 

Riches and I have been working really really hard this transfer...but we are having no success whatsoever. We've tried what we think is everything! But no solid people has come from our hard work. We have gotten so much rejection lately. It's tough. So pray for us that we will find someone who is ready to hear our message! Tuesday we got rejected almost all day. Only got to talk to one person just briefly. 

Riches and I have been obsessed with talking like president Monson. We don't know why we just think it's funny haha. 

Last night our branch put on a fireside for the Elders Quorum. It was set up to be like the school of prophets, a reenactment kinda. They split us up into three groups and we had three classes where our  groups learned all about the priesthood. One we learned about the Aaronic, then the next was  

Melchizedek, then we learned about the oath and the covenant and some other stuff too. It was really cool. President Rascon was there and all sorts of cool stuff! 

Hope y'all have a great week and are doing good. Love you