Monday, August 20, 2018
Dear Mom,
This week has been pretty good. We had Zone Conference which was really good and I got to briefly see New Orleans.
Monday we emailed and then went up to Houma with the other Elders and Sisters for a District P-day. We played some basketball and stuff. That night we came back and went to a member's house and did our laundry.
Tuesday we had Zone Conference, we got up and left early to be up in Metairie, near New Orleans, by 9:00am. We did our car inspections and stuff and then we started Zone Conference and it was really good. We were able to meet a lot of other Missionaries in the mission that haven't met yet since the merge happened. After lunch Elder brown and I did a musical number. We were asked to do one just 3 days before so we didn't have much time to practice but we came up with a song. We sang "Se Tu Mi Vision", "Be Thou My Vision" in Spanish. We sang the Evan Craft version of it and we dropped it to a B key and changed it slightly. It turned out ok, it wasn't as good as we wanted it to be but we only had like 2 days to prepare so it was alright. The rest of Zone Conference was good too, we received some good info about how we are to become one as our missions merge. After Zone Conference we went to a part member family's house that Elder brown knew from when he served up here. Then we came back to the church for his bike and then we went to New Orleans and went to Costco. There were no Costco stores in Mississippi and there are only a select few in Louisiana. There are Walmart Sam's Clubs down here instead but Costco is so much better. It is like Gold to be able to go there. We got some nice Costco pants and got some provolone sandwiches and that was amazing! I haven't had one of those in forever. Then we went to Thibodaux and we started exchanges, so I then drove Elder McRae and I back to Morgan City.
Wednesday we did our workout and studies and then we spent a couple hours knocking on church doors and offering service to them. There were a few that were there in the office and one of them let us in out of the rain and talked to us for a good 40 minutes or so. We were able to share with her what we do and everything. She was a really nice lady. We then grabbed some dinner at Wendy's, their 4 for 4 menu is amazing for missionaries! Then we went tracting and we knocked out about 3 or 4 streets and we were able to give out a few cards but didn't have much more luck than that. We then dropped off a bag of kids clothes from a member to a part member family that we are working with, She was very appreciative of that.
Thursday we did our studies and then drove up to Houma and we met the Thibodaux Elders and Houma Sisters at a place called Peppers Pizzaria for a last hoorah lunch for Sister Pike because she was having to go home because of anxiety. We were proud of her though because most don't last as long as she did. We ended our exchanges then too.
Friday we did our weekly planning and made plans for how we would stay within our mile allotment and still best visit those who we need to go see. We also had another really good lesson with Alejandra and we taught her the Plan of Salvation and used a white board to make a big diagram of it. She is so awesome. She is 9 years old and she understands what we teach really well and she was able to teach it back to us.
Saturday morning we rode our bikes to a member's house and he drove us to an older lady's house and we did a service project for her. It was us and Brother Albert (an older guy) and Brother Graham and we tore out an old rotten deck and then an old shed as well. There were lots of bugs and stuff in all of that; termites, cockroaches, lots of different weird spiders, and many many others and it had oh so conveniently poured down rain right before so that was awesome. . .It was good though and we got it done pretty quick.
Sunday was great! We had a couple investigators at church and the meetings were good. I also gave a talk and I was right before the High Councilman. I chose to talk about sharing the Gospel and Christ's Labor of Love and then after me, the High Councilman spoke and his talk was preaching the gospel and our talks were like perfectly hand in hand which was really cool. Afterward he came up to me and talked about that and how his topic is chosen and planned out at the beginning of the year so the fact that I had spoken on the exact same thing and referenced many of the same things as he did was really cool and it put a big emphasis on it. After church we had lunch with the Viators, the Branch President's family. And kind of a branch correlation with him afterward which was much needed and very helpful. Then we later had dinner with the Graham and played some games with their family.
It has been a pretty good week with a great Zone Conference. I look forward to this next week as we have some good plans for this week to be able to better do missionary work in this area. Until next week!
Love,
Elder Acton
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