Temple Work/District Leader!!

My week was really good, we had a pretty exciting week! On Wednesday
we went though the temple, it was our Temple day, so I went through
with my own ancestor name which was a great great grandpa from Grandma
Stringhams side. His name was John Reginald Wood. I got to do the
Baptism, Confirmation, initiatory, and endowment for him. It was
really awesome!! I love the Houston Temple, it's like one of my
favorites! When you come to get me when my mission is over, we need to
go do a session in it! 

Anyway, we also did a ton
 of service this week, we did some service at
the Peanut Butter Factory, and at the Houston Food Bank so that was a
lot of fun.  And then on Friday we set
another baptism date with one of our investigators named Andrea, she
is a non member of a part member family. But we set the 24th of Septmeber
for her Baptism. That's pretty exciting, the other thing that I did
this week, was that I bought a super fancy pair of large scriptures at
the distribution center when we went through the temple.

So the big news I have is that I have just been made the District Leader over the Houston North District.... And that it's really
frightening...

Service and Confirmations!

I did my first confirmation! So that was really
neat! And ya we had Katherine baptized! So it went really well! 3
baptisms in 2 months! The work is really moving! The lord is hastening
the work!

We got to teach at President
Mortensen's sons baptism. His youngest son  had his baptism
and we taught a little lesson during the changing period. And then we
got to be in the confirmation circle and that was pretty exciting.

We also did some service at an elementary school called Kuenhle
elementary! (I bet you can't pronounce that word ;) but anyway we just
pretty much put together paper packets for two hours, but it was fun!

Ummm then we started doing our youth lessons this week. We started in
the Ward a program where we teach the youth 14-18 the first three
discussions. So that they can be treated like an investigator and they
can go through the conversion process as well, so they can a
foundation in the gospel that will help them through high school and
through their lives. So that was fun beginning to do that! The kids
thought it was pretty fun! Other than that we really didn't have to
much happen... There has been rain everyday for awhile and  this
week its supposed to rain off and on. 

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