Week 8

Hola Madre!

Estoy muy bien y muy emocianado sobre el correo hoy!
Translation: "I am very well and very excited about the mail today!"

This week has been better, I have not had any migraines but I still need to do better at being hydrated. I have been able to go out teaching more this week, most of our week is full of appointments so we don't do much tracting.  We did do a bit early in the week and we found a new investigator and taught him the restoration and set him with a baptismal date all in the first lesson when we "knocked" into him that day. His name is Trace and he is 18 and he is more on the agnostic side of things, a little skeptical but open to what we teach him and he does all the things we ask him to. I am hoping it works out! We have taught him 3 lessons.
This week we also did some exchanges because Elder Hubert is the District Leader. We went on exchanges with the D'lberville Elders (The English Elders in our Ward, Elder Curtis who is 2 transfers into his mission and he is training Elder Jex). We switched after district meeting Wednesday afternoon and I stayed the night with Elder Curtis at his apartment and then was with him for half the day. During the time I was with Elder Curtis we rode our bikes looking for people to talk to. We had an interesting experience with a black guy that wanted to bible bash. We handed him a restoration pamphlet and he looked at the front(which was a picture of Jesus holding a lamb) and he said "Who's this?" We were like "That's Jesus" Him, "This ain't Jesus, his hair is too straight. Jesus has curly hair, it says it in the bible that Jesus' hair is like that of a lamb's." It was quite the experience.
We haven't had the opportunity to do any real service yet.
Church was good! We went to ward council and then to sacrament meeting and then to what I think was gospel principles class which was all in Spanish and then we went to priesthood and Elder's Quorum.  Then we had a second sacrament meeting which was the Spanish group.  The Biloxi ward is a pretty good size, its about the size of our ward but I think its just a bit smaller, the Spanish group is only like 30 people though. It was a good day. There was a big thunder and lightning storm all day and it was on and off many times but it dumped rain. Elder Hubert and I went to meet a guy the Sisters wanted us to meet because he speaks Spanish and we got soaked, mostly me because I don't have a rain jacket, haha. Everything was flooding and we had to go through areas that were huge puddles and everything else was covered in water as well, just it wasn't that deep. We didn't even get to have an appointment with him and so we went home and changed and my seat in the car was soaked for the rest of the day. Anyway, it was a fun experience even though I got soaked, haha.
Our ward has less youth than the Wenatchee River Ward, and we participate in the gospel principles class but I don't understand much so I'm pretty quiet more so than I normally am, lol.
That's awesome that Grandpa is the new ward mission leader! Our Stake and mission just had a bunch of boundary changes and our ward mission leader, Brother Perks, just got called to be the Stake President so let's just say that our ward mission leader right now is like Unicorns. . .Non-Existent. . .
I've met a fair amount of Spanish people, we have 2 guy investigators with baptismal dates that are Spanish and we teach them kinda together (as much as we can) and we have a part member family that we are working with who is Spanish and we are teaching in their home a girl investigator. And we also have a few others, it's about half Spanish and half English right now. There are actually a lot of Spanish speaking people down here.
We have had a few dinners with members and I'm getting an okay amount of stuff to eat but we have like no food at our apartment, so making food at home or getting food from home is interesting, haha. I've had many PB&j's and cereal. When we have time in the mornings, I can make Eggs Fried Sandwich with ham on the griddle, Grits, and toast, but that's about the extent of my meals.
Thanks for the pics, I love them! It always makes my day to see how its going back home and to see the things you guys are up to! I love you guys so much! I wish I could have been there for Apple Juice! I miss doing that with you guys and I miss the apple juice too, haha. So, it sounds like I'm not the only one who got wet this weekend huh? Though I probably got more soaked, it  was probably a lot colder for you guys!
This Sunday I was asked to give a talk and I was really nervous and prepared it Saturday night because we were on exchanges Friday and Saturday with the Pascagoula Elders. It went really well though and many said I did a good job;) It was on the topic, Sharing the Gospel: The Savior's Labor of Love. I want to take a picture of the talks I have given and send them to you so you can read them but I'll have to wait til I get a camera for that.
I love you tons mom and I hope you have a wonderful day!!! You're the best!!:)

Your Missionary, Elder Acton