Houston Zoo/ Aunt Megan & Uncle Bill Visit!

First off, things are going good here, we just set a baptismal date
with a girl named Kathryn. She is Letty's, (our recent converts) sister,
she was the other girl that was in the baptism pictures of Letty and
Arturo. But ya things are going great! We are trying to get the Ward a
little more missionary minded and such because the area is small and
the work needs to pick up in the main ward we cover.

Last P-day a member took us to the Houston Zoo, which is out of our area! It was so nice to go and visit the zoo last week!!

Aunt Megan lives in Houston and was so thrilled Harry was called to serve down there! When Matt served his mission many, many moons ago in Oakland, California, she actually lived there at the time! Coincidence??? Maybe?? Regardless, it has been a great comfort knowing she is nearby! She has been patiently waiting for him to transfer closer to her! He is still out of her area but she picked them up last week and took them out for some Texas BBQ!

All in all it was a good for week for these awesome elders!!

6 Months Down!!!!

I was made a trainer this past week and the training is going really well! Elder Tweedie is awesome! 
He is really stoked to do the work which is really good! And I am excited to see
the great stuff that is going to happen in the area over the next
three months! 

So I asked him if he was a fun or an uptight trainer and this was his response....

And I am a fun trainer!! Why would you even think I
would be uptight??! Am I ever uptight?! Are you kidding me?! I am the
funniest and most wonderful person in the entire world! Remember?!

Boy, he doesn't have a big head does he......

This is all the trainers waiting to be paired up with their new companions!

This is the entire picture of all the new missionaries and trainers having lunch together!

His new companion, Elder Tweedie!

Not too much happened this week honestly... It was a really slow week,
I wasn't in my area for a few days while I was waiting for my trainee.
But I was in the coolest area in all the mission!! I was in the
Melbourne area which is like actual Houston and the apartment for the
missionaries is like right next to downtown. 

Downtown Houston!

The mom and son in the middle of this picture are his recent baptisms! He went and did baptisms for the dead with them!

Baptism/Alligator!!

The baptisms went great yesterday! My first real investigators that I
baptized myself. It was really fun, the mom Letty is the best she just
was crying and everything as she came out of the water and she just
was like the most golden investigator! So it was awesome! We are going
to go do baptisms for the dead with them this Friday! That's exciting!

Anyway... ALLIGATOR is delicious!! Haha it was way good! It did taste
close to chicken but it still had a different flavor! So when we are
doing my mission tour we are for sure going somewhere to get some
gator! You have to try it! You will like it! And I bet dad would like
to try eating it as well! 

Yea..I am not going to be trying Alligator anytime soon!! Also he had a great 4th of July! He had a giant nerf war and then they were at a members house I'm guessing since he didn't give me names to these pictures for some giant fireworks or I should say bomb! The video he sent of this so called bomb didn't work:( Let's just say boys and big fireworks made for a funny video!! hahaha

He doesn't really like any teams from Texas....didn't take him long to sport some new Texas A&M Shirt!! Yes, I did make fun of him!! 

Upcoming Baptism/Trainor!!!

My week was awesome, we had a great week, we are still teaching Letty
and Arturo and they are getting baptized this Saturday. And they are
getting so excited for it! We also had a guy named Ron come to
church, and he got to hear me talk... Because I had to talk in
sacrament! So that WAS nerve racking because my mission President  is in my ward!!

I have been
informed by the mission president that I will be training this
upcoming transfer! So that's what I will be doing in like a week and a
half. So that pretty exciting!

So still no pictures of this kid.....just a lovely cockroach! I sure hope he doesn't have these in his actual house!! So gross!!!

Awesome Week!!

The area he is now in is a very difficult area to find new investigators! It is a small area so it takes a lot of effort and work on his part! So I am happy that this week has been a good week for them and they are excited about their new investigators and love them!

I am doing awesome this week! We set two dates with a lady named Letty
and her son named Arturo! They just both moved here from California and
they are so awesome!! We have only taught them twice but we set a
baptismal date and they are so excited and it's just great! We had
them come to church and then we also had the mission presidents
fireside that they went to. Where I also had to sing in the missionary
fireside choir! So that was fun! That's pretty much what happened this
week so it has been a pretty awesome week!

This was at the Mission Presidents Fireside!

For some reason this kid can't take pictures while he's on a bike! I guess he doesn't know that he can stop the bike and take selfies!! hahahaha By the time he gets home, I will have him loving to take pictures of himself??? Yea, probably not!! hahaha 

Canning and Sweating..

I received this picture in a text telling me how he loves these missionaries and their willingness to help out at the factory!

They made anywhere in between 55 to 6500 jars of peanut butter going to the food bank! Harry loved working there and said they treated him really well while they were there and even was given 2 jars for himself!! I guess he will live off of peanut butter sandwiches for awhile! 

His email was short and all they did was tract this week besides the canning! But he did say "Anyway the bike riding is going fine! I am having fun getting to know everybody! But the amount of sweating I am doing is quite ridiculous! " hahaha Gotta love humidity!!

New Area!!

Ok, last weeks music video was the best and now that he is transferred, he is on a bike:( So now he just might have to get creative for the next one!! Which I have told him everyone is awaiting an encore!! hahaha

This weeks email was short but still good! I didn't receive any pictures!! He's in big trouble!! LOL So the pictures I am putting on here today are pictures from his last area!!

My week has been good! Yep, I am in the new area! Im now in Spring
Texas! So it's the opposite from Bryan because it's all city instead
of all country! So it's pretty cool! It's a really tiny area! Like
only made up of 4 small neighborhoods! So I am on bike now and will be
for the next 4 and a half months... So I get to truly experience the
horrible summer heat because I'll be outside the whole time! But I
really like the bike! I get to talk to everybody we see on the sides of the
road! 

My mission president is in my ward, so its awesome seeing him every week!! We even get to have dinner with his family at the end of the month!

So far it's going really well! We have now started teaching a guy
named Joe! And We decided to bring President Mortensen to the lesson
because we knew if he came then the lesson would go perfectly! And it
did! It was pretty much the best lesson that I have ever been in!!!
The spirit was so strong! And Joe accepted a baptism invitation once
he came to know what we taught was true! So it was great! And now he
has president Mortensen as a fellow shipper so he's not getting away!!
But ya so it's been great so far here!!

He was 2 hours away from Houston and the Temple, now he is like 10mins. away!

Flooding that happened in his area! He said it subsided a ton because they aren't driving through it! haha

Such a beautiful family!!

His first investigator that he baptized!