Dear Mom,
This week has been a good week and there have been some ups and downs between finding awesome people to teach and having people yell at us and other people not wanting us to teach them anymore.
So last week I wasn't able to finish writing about the whole week so I'll include Sunday in this week:)
Sunday, we had an investigator come to church and he love it and was able to feel the spirit strongly. there was also a lot of Hispanic members who came which was awesome to have them all there. The members helped Wesley, our investigator, feel great and very welcome and the Seumanu family invited him to watch the youth devotional/face-to-face with them at the church that evening. We had Branch Council after church and then went to 3-4 appointments but they all fell through, so we did some tracting and then came back home and ate some dinner. We then drove to Amelia and we had multiple appointments there that fell through as well so we ended up tracting for the rest of the night. WE met two new people to teach and they are an awesome couple. They also offered to feed us dinner Thursday, which was super awesome! We met another cool guy to teach and then later we talked to some people at an authentic Mexican food truck and they gave us each a free Mexican Soda call Jarritos. They were really good.
Monday was an alright P-day. In the morning I cleaned for a while, had breakfast, and then cleaned for a couple more hours. We then went to Subway for lunch which was really good plus, I had a Subway Gift Card so I technically wasn't even having to spend my money. Then we went to the library and emailed for a little. We left the Library after just a little bit and went to the laundromat or "Washateria" as they call it down here and we put in our loads of laundry. We left it there as we went to Walmart to get our groceries and then we came back and switched it over to the dryers. I tried to finish my emailing on my phone while there but wasn't able to. Then that evening we tracted for a while. We walked with a nice lady that was out for an evening walk/exercise and we ended up on the other side of Berwick and then had to walk back to our car. We knocked doors on our way back and found a new guy to teach.
Tuesday we tracted in Morgan City and it poured rain on us. Luckily most houses had porch roofs so we didn't have to stand in the rain while at the door and there was a guy that we were able to talk to for a bit near the end of the storm til it stopped. We did get soaked from walking from one door to the next though. Later we met a super cool guy who was very happy to see us. We almost didn't knock his door because the front door was blocked by a metal gate at the entry way of it. Luckily, we noticed his garage door was available. The spirit was very strong during our conversation and lesson with him and he pointed it out many times. We later returned to Berwick and went to some appointments at the trailer park across the main road from near where we live. Not many of them actually worked out so we did some tracting in between. We were able to have a good lesson and get to know a guy we had met before and his wife. They are an awesome couple; he is a Cajun guy if you ever did see one and she is Mexican so they told us about when they cook and how they often get a mix between good Cajun food and good Mexican food. They are awesome. We then sat down with another older couple and had a type of lesson with them, he constantly made rude side comments which wasn't very cool, but we had quite the question and answer type of lesson. Then right before we came home we saw the dog of a member and we helped her know where to find it as it had got out and run off.
Wednesday, we had District Meeting in Houma as usual, and then we went to Sam's Club for lunch. We then came back to Berwick and had a great lesson with Lewis and Miriam, our Cajun and Mexican friends :) We later went to the church and had a lesson with Alejandra and we ended up moving the baptism to the next Saturday so that it will work better. WE were going to have a dinner with Wesley and the Seumanus at the church afterward but Wesley wasn't able to do it that day so it got moved to Friday. The Seumanus still had us over for dinner though which was nice of them. After dinner we went to tract where we had decided to go earlier but felt we should go to some trailers instead so we went there. We had a fair amount of rejections and then in the last 15 minutes we met a real cool dude that we are able to teach.
Thursday we had our studies and then tracted for a few hours. We went over to Delmara and Cody's and they were doing a deep clean of their apartment with their neighbors (cousins) help and his mom's help and we joined in with them and helped them take out trash and put clothes and stuff in the cars and move furniture and then we had a small lesson with Cody and then a lesson with his cousin Adrian. We then came home, grabbed a quick bite to eat and left to Amelia. Again many of our appointments fell through, these people are very busy and their schedules are crazy so it is hard to have solid appointments with them. We did some more tracting and it poured on us again. We met an interesting girl who we had a lesson with and she talked about some very strange views on what is going to happen in these last days and stuff. She talked to us about how she can read minds and stuff, nice girl but she had some interesting thoughts. Later we were able to have a good lesson with a guy we had met last week and then we came home.
Friday morning we went to the Seumanu's and got a ride with Brother Seumanu to a single sister in the branch whom we help mow her yard. We got there and someone had already done it, some guy she had paid to do a different job around the house and he had mowed the lawn too. We talked with her for quite a while and she showed us some other things that needed to be done. We then went back to the Seumanu's and they fed us breakfast, and they were some really good waffles. We then came home and did some studying and our weekly planning before we left to Morgan City to an appointment we had. The guy was super busy and didn't have time, he seemed like a completely different guy than the one he was when we first met him. We then talked to some Hispanic ladies at a a yard sale and their husbands when they showed up later. Then we talked to a cool guy as he was cleaning his crawfish boil catering supplies and stuff. We then came back to the trailers near our apartment and we tracted some more there. We had a brief lesson with one of our investigators, found a new guy to teach who is a super awesome dude and then we went to our dinner appointment with the Seumanus and Wesley. Sadly we tried to cal Wesley and he forward our calls and also the Seumanus. We went to his house to see if was still wanting to come and to see what was up but he wasn't there. On the way we did see a guy we had taught and given a Book of Mormon, walking on the road and we noticed he was holding the Book of Mormon in his hand. We later drove the path we thought he would have walked and found him still walking. We stopped and we were able to talk to him for a bit and provide more counsel and comfort as he shared some of his struggles with us. He has read half the Book of Mormon though so that was cool. We then went back to the Seumanu's and had dinner with them. We then went to a lesson that we had scheduled with an investigator and a member met us there, but sadly they didn't answer and we ended up tracting for the rest of the night.
Saturday, I had a good exercise and I'll be honest, I haven't done a decent leg workout in a while so after I did a good one on Saturday, I was super sore and I still am, lol. I did some cleaning for a bit that needed to get done and then we did our studies, had lunch, and then did some more weekly planning. We then had a good lesson with one of our investigators and then all our appointments that day moved later to about 5:00pm and others moved up to about 5:00pm, but the earlier ones were here in Berwick and Patterson and the later ones were in Amelia. It was a struggle to be able to work those all out to where we could get to all of them. we somehow did and some of them were short but they were all really good lessons. In Amelia, we had dinner and a good lesson with some investigators. They made some really good Mole (Mo-Lay), a Mexican dish-chicken with a type of spicy chocolate sauce and rice. We then tried to visit a bunch of other people there and we were able to have a good lesson with another family. They invited us to come over for dinner next Thursday and they are going to make a Honduran dish called Baleadas. I've never tried it before but apparently it's really good! It is funny, at this trailer park in Amelia, halfway down it at 8:45 at night as we were walking through, on one side there was a Hispanic fiesta going on with loud music and stuff and then on the other side there was a Vietnamese get together thing going on with their loud music and lights. It was awesome, so many different kind of things going on.
Sunday, I gave a talk on small and simple things, I got asked Saturday night. Then we were in youth class helping them practice for their missions. After church we came home and had lunch and did some studying and then we went to an appointment but he wasn't home yet so we tracted and then we went to a part-member family and had a lesson with them. We watched the Restoration video, which always brings in the spirit so well. We then did more tracting and there was a huge thunder storm with super loud thunder and lightening every few seconds. But luckily, it didn't rain. We then went and had dinner with the Grahams and then tracted for the rest of the night. One lady yelled at us and actually tried to come push us away. . .it was an interesting night. Well it's been a good week, until next week!
Love,
Elder Acton
MORE RAIN!!
District Lunch
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