April 6, 2020

Hey everyone!! I hope your week was awesome. Mine sure was.

I'll just start out with talking about the General Conference. It was such an amazing experience to listen to our Prophet and Apostles. Getting to listen and learn more about the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ was really cool. It's amazing to think that it's been 200 years since the first vision happened with Joseph Smith.  It's also been 190 years since the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints was restored. The Prophet and Apostles created a new proclamation, and we had an historic hosanna wave. Youth speakers spoke, they used pre recorded hymns from other conferences. My favorite one was the last song when they sang "We Thank Thee O God For A Prophet". If you haven't seen the conference yet I invite you to watch it. 

For the Conference our district got super excited about it and we loaded out on snacks. The 4 of us Elders in our district went and bought some Blue Bell ice cream. It was so good Haha. We all decided to watch conference in the Relief society room in the Church and so we moved a couch and 4 recliners into the room for us to watch. It was so awesome and really made it fun. One of the members in our ward Door Dashed us Chipotle for lunch as well. I got a wrap with beans, cheese, barbacoa, and corn. 

My favorite part from the whole Conference was when our prophet President Nelson talked about ways that we can "HearHim" better. He said that if we study the scriptures, go to the temple, family history work, listen to the promptings of the Holy Ghost, and heed to the words of the prophets, seers, and revelators we would be able to "HearHim '' better. I invite y’all to find ways like these and more to try to "HearHim''.

This week we got lots of new people to teach from some other areas in our mission. A couple of them were actually on baptism date and so now we have 4 people on Baptismal date now.

On Tuesday we said goodbye to Elder Trythal. He would have had one more transfer but because of the Coronavirus he had to go early. He was a super awesome Missionary and really focused on his purpose. For dinner that day, Elder Tudor's Mom Door Dashed us Buffalo Wild Wings. It was soo good and we ate all of it haha. They were pretty spicy but pretty delicious. 

On Wednesday we had a district council at the church building with our district. We still did a 6 feet social distancing thing to be safe but it doesn't really matter because we see each other every day. While we were driving to dinner later that day, someone rear ended us. We were all okay, it wasn't even bad. The car is gonna have to get a new back door though. 

On Thursday we went to Mission Creek and we stopped to say hi to the other Elder's there. My MTC companion Elder Coleman was there so that's super cool cause now he's in my zone. After we left we stopped at an HEB to buy some Cinnamon Rolls for a family we were teaching. While we were there we picked up some Blue Bell ice cream for the General Conference. HEB was so crazy. Like there were a ton of people there and they were all pretty serious about social distancing which made it tough to get around the store. On Thursday night the whole mission watched The Restoration Of The Gospel Of Jesus Christ at the same time. There was a group chat on Messenger everyone was on where we could all text our thoughts about the movie and stuff. It was pretty cool. 

On Friday we made the Cinnamon Rolls and dropped them off at the Franco family we are teaching. Later that day we had a lesson with them and we put their 2 girls on baptismal date for next month which is super exciting. We were able to call our families for a Family Home Evening again which was also super fun. Getting to do this with our families is great because it helps us study Come Follow Me a lot better. 

As the virus continues to go on and we're in isolation, we are all getting pretty good at online proselyting and using our technology to teach lessons. I am just so happy to be here serving others everyday and helping others have a better relationship with their Heavenly Father. I hope you all have a great week and will talk to y’all again next week.

1. Elder Trythals last day.

2. Buffalo wild wings.

3. Us all holding our Blue Bell Ice-cream. 

4. Our conference set up.

5. Chipotle 

6. Lego missionaries.