Week 86

San Jacinto week 2

March 3, 2014

The new area is pretty cool. Here's a picture of our house and my companion. Our neighbors are all black, smoke a lot of weed, and listen to very loud music all night.

This weekend the region's prayers for rain were finally answered. It poured Friday and Saturday. The whole town flooded. Whole lanes were swallowed up to the curb with water. So that was fun to drive in. Luckily we didn't stall the car.

So the names of our investigators. Tommy (who I talked about last week)
Micah (he's nine. His family is less active, and he is tentatively on date for the end of the month.)
Taylor (another 9 year old. She's on date for the 5th of April)
Mike and Denise, They've been investigating for a Loooooong time, they need to get married before they can get baptized but they don't want to.


There's a really cool recent convert family here, Trent and Heather Emmich. They got baptized the week before I got here.  Trent has two sons Davian 10 and Dylan 11 from different women. The boys want to get baptized but need their mom's permission. They are super cool.

Aside from that, I don't have a whole lot to report on. We are mostly focused on finding people to teach.

Church yesterday was really good. As was ward council. It was really refreshing to hear nearly all of the testimonies born were focused on the Savior, and that the ward leadership are very pro-active and willing to do things especially with regards to missionary work.
Overall I'm pretty excited about this area, things are looking good here.

My companion's name is Elder Snider. He's really used to having insane amounts of work going on in the area (and it's his first one so he doesn't know any different) so our expectations for what makes a "good" week or day are very different. It's pretty funny.
I'm also Elder Blackburn's (my former companion) district leader. So I give him grief at every opportunity.

So yeah, Thank you for your prayers, I look forward to your letters.