Week 59 Another Baptism!!

Tuesday, October 16th 2018

Dear Mom,

This week has been pretty good, we have been very busy as usual and we've done some good service and we had exchanges and then we had a baptism at the end of the week to top it off.
Monday, we had a good P-day and that evening we tried to visit people and then we had a great FHE with Jeanne at the Viators' house. They had a good lesson on the Holy Ghost and then we had some fun games where we played telestrations. It was a home made telestrations, you just write it on a piece of paper and then fold it back so that the next person can't see. Also, instead of just one word or phrase and then a drawing, we played by doing a sentence and then a drawing and it was quite hilarious. Elder Cannon kept changing everything to somehow involve me which was very funny. Jeanne had a great time and was laughing a ton and it was awesome to see her happy and having a good time.
Tuesday, we had some good studies and then after lunch we helped a Hispanic member move their fridge to their truck so they could get it fixed. Then we tracted on their street and found a couple other Hispanic families that we were able to invite to an FHE with the family that we helped earlier. We then drove back to Berwick and had a good lesson with Delmara and the boys and then we came home for some dinner. After dinner we drove to Franklin to go contact some referrals there and visit some others. On our way we stopped by Jeanne's and had a good lesson/visit with her. We had a few lessons in Franklin and found one new person to teach and then we came home.
Wednesday, we had District Council and then we ate lunch at Chik-Fil-A. We then started exchanges and I got to drive!!! I have really missed driving!!! It was fun to be driving again. Elder Young and I drove back to the Thibodaux pad and planned out some of the things we needed to do that day and we honestly talked for a little while and then we got on our bikes and went to go see some people. We tried a number of people but non of them were there. So we had basically spent an hour or so biking around some neighborhoods. Then we came back to the apartment to use the bathroom and we decided to go to Nichols College and contact people. We biked over there and we talked/gave cards to over 30 people which was fun. I sometimes have a hard time going beyond just saying "Hi" to someone and asking how they are doing and starting a gospel conversation. This time though I told myself, I am literally probably not ever going to see any single one of these people again and I am not even in my own area, so just go for it. I was able to talk to a lot more people and have more courage which was actually pretty fun and I really enjoyed just riding around on bikes contacting people. We later went to a park and did more contacting and then we rode around some neighborhoods trying to visit members who lived in the area. Later we went to another park to contact some more and then we got sno-balls at this really good place called Brooks and then we came home. It was fun to bike around and just talk to people.
Thursday morning Elder young and I went on a run which was fun and then I was able to do a good workout. It was awesome cuz they had a bench press that I was able to use which I haven't been able to do since my first area. Then we had some studies, did an hour of service for a food bank place and had some lunch. Then we went to a jewelry store to get my watches fixed. They said they wouldn't be done by the time I needed to pick them up to leave so I just left Elder young with what he needed to get them for me and he kindly did that. Then Elder Young and I drove down to the Morgan City area and we met Elder Cannon and Elder McRae at the church for Jeanne's Baptismal interview and then Elder Jex and Elder Hendry to do the interview. They are our Zone Leaders. It was fun to see them too. All went well and we all knew that Jeanne was more than ready for her baptism :-) Then we exchanged back and Elder Cannon and I went to Delmara and Cody's and had a good lesson with the boys. We then came home for some dinner and then we visited someone and met his cousin and taught him as well. After that we headed to Amelia and visited multiple people up there and we had a few good little lessons. We ended the night with visiting a family we have taught several times and they always like to feed us dinner. This time they fed us Gorditas (picadas) which were really good but they were pretty spicy!! We had a nice little lesson on the Book of Mormon and Church afterward and then came home.
Friday morning the Pages, a Senior Missionary Couple, came and got rid of our old beds and got us new ones!!!! I was so excited!!! Like Christmas!!! We then left to the assisted living home and sang songs for the elderly people there. Then we went to the church which was literally down the street and we did our studies and then ate lunch. After lunch we visited Jeanne and talked about her baptism with her and read in the Book of Mormon. We visited some kids we are teaching and met some new kids there too. We then had a lesson with Delmara and Cody and their boys and we played jeopardy with them on the lessons we have taught them. It was lots of fun. We came home for some dinner and then we visited some people and had one dude, who couldn't hear very well so we all had to shout, including him, who went off on us and wouldn't try to understand what we taught. He made us a little frustrated, he was very un-teachable. Then we tracted for the last few hours of the night and found one guy right at the end who was really cool and we are now teaching him.
Saturday was AWESOME!!!! We did some studies and then we went to the library and made the program for Jeanne's baptism and then we visited some kids we are teaching and ate more pupusas. After that we went to the church and started filling the font and we did our weekly planning and made copies of the program. And we set up chairs. Then Jeanne got there with her two daughters and we finally got to meet one of them!! We took pictures and people arrived and we started the service. It was wonderful with great talks and then Jeanne bore her testimony. We had asked her to and she had the courage to accept and do it even though she was terrified. When she bore her testimony, WOW! It was amazing. She brought the spirit in so strong and her testimony was so powerful. She talked about how she now has hope and can wake up each day saying thank you and meaning it. That she can now truly look forward to each and every day. She said many other things that really made me feel joy. It was wonderful. We then had refreshments and we stayed and cleaned up everything and then went to Morgan City for some appointments and we had a few good lessons. One of them being with a teenage recent convert and his younger brother. We had an awesome lesson teaching them how to pray and seek personal revelation with an example. It was awesome, one of them got his answer as we were reading.
1.  Come up with a question
2. Pray about it
3. Study in the scriptures/Book of Mormon
4. Think about what your answer may be
5. Pray and ask Heavenly Father if that's right
6. Listen to the feelings of the Spirit
It was a super awesome lesson that we had with them.
Sunday was great as well but boy was I nervous! Jeanne had asked that I give her the gift of the Holy Ghost and I was very nervous. It went great and I was so grateful for that opportunity that she gave me to do that for her. We had some great classes after sacrament meeting and then we went to Morgan City and had some really good lessons that evening.
It has been a great week, I will include Monday (yesterday) in my next weekly because I don't have time today. Tomorrow is transfers and Elder Cannon and I are staying together.

Love,
Elder Acton

Some "interesting" art

Christmas in October!! Our new beds :-)

Jeanne's Baptism

Me and my comp, Elder Cannon

Week 58 General Conference Weekend

Monday, October 8th 2018

Dear Mom,

This week has been a great week with a wonderful ending of General Conference!

Monday, was a good P-day but it was a bit frustrating when doing laundry at the Washeteria...Every time I do laundry there it does something to my clothes...This time it put black marks on my shirts and stuff, pretty annoying, but oh well. It will probably come out in the next wash. I hope. That evening we visited some people in Morgan City and then we went to Patterson and visited some people there and we had some good lessons that night. We also had a really fun FHE with one of the people we are teaching. And her daughter finally joined us! It was tons of fun. We played some minute to win it and we also watched the Restoration video and had a good little lesson.
Tuesday we did our usual morning schedule of work out, protein shake/breakfast, get ready, plan for the day, do personal study, companion study, language study and then lunch. After that we tracted some streets in Bayou Vista and we were able to have a few good little lessons. There were a lot of people who were not home, we did get some not so kind words yelled at us as someone told us to get off their property but the good thing is we did find two new people to teach. We then met with Cody and his family and we taught the boys. We then grabbed a bite to eat at Taco Bell and met a super cool dude there who is from Dublin, Ireland and then we tracted some more.
Wednesday was good, we went and did some service for a Hispanic member of the branch and helped them carry a fridge out to their truck and then we drove to Houma for District Council. We did some studies while we waited there in the car since we were early. Elder Ferrell, a senior couple missionary, gave a presentation for 1 1/2 hours at the beginning of our district meeting which was super good. It was on the talk, becoming the fourth missionary. We then finished District Council, went for lunch at Subway and then we drove back to Morgan City (rather Berwick) and we had some lessons then ate some dinner and then we drove to Morgan City and we had a good lesson with one lady and helped her set a date to be baptized. We also visited another lady and they just finished having bible study. We sat down with them and talked, we tried to teach but one lady very loudly kept talking about her opinions and stuff in a debating way. She said some interesting things but always said that she wasn't trying to be contentious and argue, just that she was sharing her beliefs. She said many times about the different versions of the bible and how they all said different things but they mean the same thing. Then we all read from different sets and most of them said the same exact thing and she was like see, they say different things but they mean the same. So that was interesting, she said stuff that made no sense and contradicted herself. But nonetheless, we left them with singing a hymn and then went onto some other lessons, some in Morgan City and then a few others in Patterson.
Thursday, we did studies and lunch and then we went to Jeanne's again for another lesson. We then had some other lessons with a few other people. We also had a lesson with Cody's boys and they are starting to listen to what we teach more. We spent some time later trying to visit some other people but none answered. We had some dinner and then drove to Amelia. All of our appointments fell through in Amelia and we ended up tracting the rest of the night.
Friday, we did some service at the Patterson Healthcare Center, an assisted living home. We read some scriptures and sang to the Elderly people there for an hour, which was fun. We then came home, did some more studies, had lunch, and then we did our weekly planning. It was a really good weekly planning session and we got a lot of things accomplished. After that we headed over to Cody and Delmara's and we had another good lesson with the boys. We then were about to grab a super quick bite to eat when we got a call from the Branch President's wife saying that we should come to the birthday party they had going on. We were needed because there were some Hispanic members (who we were about to try and see) who were there but might not have felt comfortable due to the language barrier. It was fun to go there and meet some new people and support the kids whose birthday it was. Then we went to Jeanne's and she gave us a ton of snacks and stuff that her and her daughter had bought for us!!! It was so awesome of them to do that :-) It was like getting a package from home, haha. They are super awesome. Then we finished out the night with some tracting.
Saturday was great!! I loved General Conference so much!!! As we biked to Jeanne's we stopped by the house where we teach a bunch of little kids and made sure we reminded them about conference and then we went to Jeanne's house and watched the session with her. I absolutely loved the session and Jeanne did too. We then biked back to the kids and checked to see if they watched it and they did! or at least 45 minutes of it! We gave them their treat for finishing the bingo and had a little lesson with them and ate some pupusas that their mom cooked for us. Then we biked back to Jeanne's for the second session which was super good as well!!! We then biked back home to complete a total of 25 miles and man my butt was sore!! My legs were pretty tired too because when we are biking its not a casual ride, its a bike as fast as you can to get where you're going so we got like 5 solid 30 minute workouts in that day. We then grabbed a bit of food and left to Amelia. We had a good lesson with a Hispanic guy we had met before and come to find out he is a member! So that was cool, now we are helping him grow into the Gospel. We spent the rest of the night trying to visit people and talking to others.
Sunday was another Great Day of Conference! We set it all up at the church and we had Jeanne there with us, Brother Viator and Cody and Delmara's two boys which were a handful to take care of during that 2 hour session. We learned what it is like for parents and I realized a lot of skills and lessons I had learned with my own family and siblings that helped me better help the boys. We then had a short lesson with Jeanne, and then Cody came to pick up the boys and we talked with him for a while and then went inside and ate our lunch. We then had some difficulty locking the building up and barely made it to Anthony's office (another great guy we are teaching) to watch the Sunday afternoon session with him. That was a cool experience to watch it with him on his computer in his office. I absolutely loved conference and there were so so many good talks that taught me so much. There was a lot of talks on the Plan of Salvation and also taking upon us the Name of Christ oh and Repentance. Such wonderful guidance from our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ who truly is leading His church through Prophets and Apostles today. After conference we had a few good lessons with some people in Morgan City and then we went to the Seumanu's and they fed us steak and potatoes and rice and salad and it was a very good dinner which I enjoyed oh so thoroughly! It has been a great week and I am very excited for the next one, as we are to have a baptism for Jeanne this Saturday!!!

Love,
Elder Acton

Week 57 Zone Conference and a Sick Day

Monday, October 1st 2018

Dear Mom,

This last week was again full of some great experiences but also some not so great, regarding being sick for a day or so.
Monday was a good P-day, we were able to get most everything done that we needed to and then that night we had an appointment with a family and read scriptures with them and had a little FHE. Then we had a good lesson with one of the other people we have been teaching and ended the night.
Tuesday, we left early to go to Zone Conference and we stopped by a car wash to wash and vacuum out our car and then we went to the church there. It was a great Zone Conference and the night before I had been asked to a musical number by myself with Elder Cannon playing the piano. I had got Elder Brown to agree to sing "Love One Another" with me and then once there, in the moment, we were told that we were the first musical number to start off Zone Conference. Elder Brown almost didn't join me but I got him to join. It was pretty good for a "on-the-spot" song I guess. Then we had some great presentations. We also won the "Cleanest Car" award again!! MY 4th time in a row!!! Let's go!!! I was only able to spend like 15 minutes on the car this time but because Elder Brown and I had spent so much time on it last time, it was still really clean. Plus, I try to keep it clean. Anyway, I live for those $10 Subway gift cards that you get as a prize-lol! Then we got flu shot at lunch and I had very little time to eat so a few others and I had to slam our food down and we took a pic and sang for the people that prepared it for us. The  rest of Zone Conference was really good too and then afterward we had interviews with President Varner. It was fun to see other buddies at Zone Conference. While there for the rest of the night waiting for interviews, someone brought Elder Brown a Baleada (Honduran food) and he gave me half :) it was really good!! Then we started exchanges with the Thibodaux Elders and I went with Elder McRae and we drove back to Thibodaux, we grabbed some Wendy's on the way back.
Wednesday was not so great. I kind of don't like this day, lol. So, I woke up many times throughout the night a bit cold and my back and stomach hurt. At 5:00am I woke up and had to go the bathroom and from that point on I was not feeling good at all. I was throwing up and I had to use the toilet many a time. It was awful! I think I had a type of food poisoning form the Baleada that I ate. My part of the Baleada was the only part that had bones in it and the other two that ate it didn't have any problems, so it was hard to diagnose...I also might not have been used to that kind of food, though it wasn't very different than lots of Hispanic food I have eaten. Anyway form 5:00am until about 1:00pm was pretty brutal. After that it still sucked but it wasn't quite as bad. We tried to visit a few people that evening and we also had to clean out the back of the car. Elder McRae had accidentally popped the trunk instead of locking the car the night before and it was open all night. It rained super hard early that morning and so the back of the car got soaked. We pulled out the hard flooring and let that dry on the porch and then we scooped the water out from where the spare tire is and we dried the rest. It was a chore. Then later that night we drove back down to Morgan City. Throughout all day I had eaten a little cup of applesauce at like 2:00pm and then I ate about 10 tiny bites of red beans and rice that evening around 7:30pm and that was all I ate for the day. I did drink lots of water to try and flush the sickness and contaminants out of my body as the mission nurse said to do. Then we got to Morgan city, switched back our comps and I still felt pretty grody. Elder Cannon then gave me a blessing, I took some Ibuprofen and drank a bunch more water and went to bed.
Thursday, I woke up and felt almost 100% better which was awesome. Even at this point though, I can't eat a ton without feeling "bleh" still. I generally felt better and now I am feeling great again but if I eat a semi large meal it hurts my stomach a bit and makes me feel a slight bit nauseous which is weird. It is slowly getting better each time I eat though. Super weird experience. So Thursday morning we did our studies, had lunch and then we went tracting. We ended up tracting a pretty well off neighborhood and surprisingly we were able to talk to at least a few people, lol. One lady said she was the cleaner for the family that lived there and this was one of the sibling's houses, she also cleaned the other sibling's houses and the mother's house and they were all really nice houses. We decided to start offering people a song when we knock on their door to invite the spirit and it has been great. We sang her a song and a bit later she let us in this person's house for a moment. It was super nice!!! Then we later went tracting some more. It started to rain so we put our stuff in our bags and tracted a few more doors. We got wet as usual but it wasn't real bad. Then it started down pouring!!! We had to walk a few blocks back to our bikes and we got absolutely soaked. I am glad my bag is waterproof cuz I just put everything in it and then I didn't care at that point, lol. We were as soaked as if you jumped into a pool fully clothed. My shoes were completely full of water and at that point we stopped caring about trying to avoid all the flooded areas. We got on our bikes and rode to our next appointment. Still raining, completely soaked, but now were getting muddy(I don't have mud guards for my bike)I am fine with getting wet but getting mud on my shirts stinks. It is hard to get out sometimes. It was nice that we weren't having to deal with the heat anymore though! It was almost even cold!! I loved it!!! It was actually quite fun and we probably looked funny as we laughed and smiled while getting drenched. We then came home and changed. Elder Cannon had a pink sticky note in his pocket...it stained all his clothes pink...We then drove over to have a lesson with Jeanne and it was great. We then tried to see some people and then we went to the church for a family history night activity. We had some investigators come and it was a great activity. We then went to see some other people and then came home.
Friday, we had our studies and lunch and then we did our weekly planning. We then went to some appointments but they fell through so we biked to our next appointment and barely made it before the rain, we were booking it to get there before the downpour. We then had a great lesson. After the lesson we came home and grabbed some dinner since our dinner appointment fell through.  They sent us some pizza instead so we waited for that to arrive. Had a piece and then left to Morgan City to do some tracting. We continued to offer a song to people when we knocked on their door and it worked really well. It brings in the spirit so well and we were able to have two great lessons at the first two houses we knocked. Then we saw a young boy who had been baptized a year ago but hasn't been to church since I've been here and he was super awesome!! Such a great kid! Then we tracted for the rest of the night and most people were kind cranky.
Saturday, after our studies we went to a family whose kids we are teaching and read the story of Ammon with them and their mother fed us pupusas again and they were so good!!! They were pupusas de chicharron and they gave us little tin orange chili peppers which were pretty hot. They said they were super super hot and I was proud to be able to eat 3 of them and not die-lol! It wasn't too bad with the cabbage and onion stuff that we eat the pupusas with. Then we tracted for a while and found two new people to teach and then we biked over to Jeanne's and then we biked the 7.5 miles back home and ate some dinner and then left to Amelia. We visited some people in Amelia and then tracted the rest of the night.
Sunday was a pretty good Sunday, Cody and his family weren't able to make it to church because their tire popped on the highway, which was sad. We did have the young guy, who was baptized a year ago, come with his sister and friend-which was awesome! Then after church we had some appointments fall through so we tracted for a couple hours, it rained but luckily we didn't get too wet. That was a hard two hours of tracting, I'll admit. Then we came home ate our Fast Sunday dinner of pizza and then we went to Morgan City, had a good lesson or two and tracted a bit and we drove over and then biked around. Then we came home. It was a week full of highs and lows and lots of good experiences.

Love,
Elder Acton

Zone Conference

Pupusas

Elder McRae's "water-logged" car

More Biking

Week 56 Exchanges and a BAPTISM!!

Monday, September 24th 2018

Dear Mom,

So this week has been a crazy ish week but it has been super awesome!!
Monday, we worked out for a bit, made some breakfast.  We made German Pancakes from a mix and it was a bit different than what we were used to. It called for brown sugar and had you put it in the bottom with the melted butter. That was kinda interesting. It was super gooey and basically turned into a hard candy bottom as it cooled. The pancakes were still good though. We went to the car dealership to have our car get an alignment and maintenance/repairs it needed but they said to come back after 1:00 so we went and emailed and then got our groceries. We dropped our groceries off at home and then made it back to the dealership at 2 ish and they worked on our car until a bit after 5:00. We used our phones to finish our emailing while there. Then we came home had a quick dinner and then went to a lesson with Alejandra at the church which went very well. She is so awesome! Then we went to contact some referrals that we had received and we met one lady and she is the best. We then tried to visit some other people and then returned home.
Tuesday we left in the morning and drove up to Kenner for a doctor's appointment for Elder Cannon and then we drove to the church building there and while the two districts that met there for district council were in district council, we did our studies. Then after they ended we went with one of the districts to get lunch at the mall and we got Subway. Then Elder Cannon went with Elder Hendry (one of the Zone Leaders) and I went with Elder Jex (the other Zone Leader). We dropped off some other Elders at their apartments (since Elder Jex drives a van, he is the taxi for the other Elders who are biking.) Then Elder Jex and I, and Elder Sorenson and Elder Fraiser(the companions of Elder Jex and Elder Hendry) went back to the Tulane apartment (Jex's) and got things set up and then Elder Jex and I left and walked down the street to visit someone and then we walked a couple blocks away to tract. Elder Sorenson and Fraiser rode their bikes to another part of the area to do work. We then walked back to the apartments. I put in some loads of laundry while at their pad so that we didn't have to pay to wash our clothes. We went over some forms that we needed to fill out and then later we went to Costco to get some food and Elder Jex paid for me because it is is tradition to buy dinner for his comp on exchanges, so that was super awesome! We then went to go see an investigator but she wasn't there. We realized at that moment that we hadn't taken a phone into the shop to get fixed like we were supposed to so we then booked it back to the other side of New Orleans to the phone repair place. We were just in time with 5 minutes to spare. We then went to the church and parked the car. We tracted for the 30 minutes we had before ward correlation meeting. We again had no luck, there wasn't anywhere for us to tract but next to the church and all the houses there are huge!!! The church is located on Saint Charles St. New Orleans and it isn't super big but that street is so famous that it cost a lot to put the church there. That church is the most expensive normal church building of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the world. Super cool. We had ward correlation and the ward mission leader, who often isn't able to come due to super busy work, came that night, lucky me. I was lucky because their ward mission leader is Taysom Hill who plays for the Saints as the second string quarter back. He also played for BYU for a while. So that was pretty cool to meet him. Then after correlation, we came back home.
Wednesday, we got up and got ready and had breakfast and I packed all my stuff again and we left to the apartment where Elder Cannon and Elder Hendry were. Then Elder Cannon and I drove back down to Houma and we had our District Council. It was a good one and then we all got lunch at Sam's Club. We then drove back to Morgan City and did some studies, knocked some doors, and then had a good lesson with Cody and Delmara and their fam. Their boys set October 13 as the date to be baptized. Then we had a quick dinner and went to the church for another good lesson with Alejandra. After that we knocked some more doors and then we went to Jeanne's(the super awesome lady we met on Monday) and sister Graham came with us and we had a super awesome lesson. After that lesson we went to see someone we started teaching a bit ago who was super awesome but we hadn't been able to contact in a while. He said he didn't want to be taught any more and it was sad because we couldn't see that light and glow that he had in his eyes before. Satan works so hard to break us down when we start coming closer to Christ and it is so sad to see people give in and give up. We then knocked doors for the rest of the night and talked to people on the street.
Thursday, we did our studies and had lunch and then we rode our bikes over to Jeanne's house. It took us about 35 minutes at our fastest speed. Sister Seumanu met us there and we had another really good lesson with Jeanne. Then we tracted the area and we didn't have much luck but we did meet an old Russian guy with an 18 year old goose, so that was cool! We then rode back, had a couple appointments fall through and then we grabbed a bit to eat and then we drove over to some trailer parks and tracted for the evening. We talked to a fair amount of people, had some great lessons, taught a bunch of little kids which was fun and found a new person to teach.
Friday, we took our car in to the dealership again so they could finish what they needed to get done. We were expecting to be picked up and taken to some service but it got cancelled so we decided to run home for some exercise. It was a humid run and it was harder because we were in jeans, I was in carharts. Also we had to dodge all the spiders on the trail again...I had a close call and I almost ran right into one of the huge webs with those big spiders on it. We got to the apartment and realized that our key was still with the other keys at the dealership. We were super exhausted from running and we couldn't escape the heat. Luckily a member was near and was able to bring us our key. We then got ready for the day and did our studies and then had lunch and did our weekly planning. Then we had a good lesson with a couple that we are teaching and after that we had a great mini lesson with Cody. Then we drove to the church and we met Elder Jex and Elder Sorenson there, as well as Alejandra, for her baptismal interview. Then we cleaned the font a bit and prepared it for the baptism. We then drove to Franklin to try and visit some people there. We would drive along the main road that went through Franklin and whenever there was someone who lived further off the main road we would park and then ride our bikes to save miles. We met some cool people and found 2 new people to teach. One lady we found, was super interested and when I said the Holy Ghost she said "You just said the magic word, if there is anything I want, it is to receive the Holy Ghost before I die." Elder Cannon then told here that we can tell her exactly how she can do that. needless to say she is now scheduled to be baptized within a few weeks. I hope that she will be able to continue to progress towards that goal. Then we came home and on the way stopped by the Seumanu's to pick up some pizza they got for us.
Saturday, we went to the Library at 9:00 and made the baptismal program for Alejandra. Then we went to visit some people and we went to a family who we had met Thursday and we taught the kids again and they remembered so much from the first time and then the Mom gave us some papusas, which were super good!! After that we went to the church and started filling up the font and then left to visit someone else. We read with Phi and helped him understand the scriptures more and showed him how to pray. Then we came back to the church and printed the programs and did last preparations for the baptism. The Baptism started at 2 and it was awesome!!! Elder Cannon translated the whole thing sentence by sentence cause half of the people were English speaking half were Spanish speaking. It was such an amazing experience to be able to be the one that baptized her! Especially after teaching her the whole time and seeing her progress. We also had Jeanne come to the baptism and there were lots of other friends of Alejandra who came to support her which was awesome. After the baptism we had tamales and lots of food. I ate 7 tamales and they were so good. After the baptism we had some lessons that were pretty good and then we left to Amelia and visited people there. One of the families we visited gave us food again which we weren't expecting and it was delicious! I stuffed myself so full!!! I felt awful.
Sunday, we got a ride to church and we brought our bikes because we are low on miles. We had 5 people that we teach come to church and it was a great day of meetings. After church we had branch council and then we biked to our next appointment in our suit pants, we left our coats with some members. We got rained on a bit while biking. We had another good lesson with the kids we have been teaching and then we came home, studied a bit, ate some food and then left on our bikes again. We talked to so many people that were just outside and after about an hour and 15 minutes we only made it halfway down the street. We then went to an area and tracted for a bit, and then biked over the sketchy bridge into Morgan City and to our dinner appointment with the Viators and Jeanne. We had spaghetti and then a good lesson with Jeanne afterwards. Then President Viator gave us a ride home.
This week has been crazy and a lot has happened but I have loved it and it has been super awesome! And this next week we have Zone Conference!

Love,
Elder Acton

Our Russian friend and his 18 year old goose

 Biking. . .Missionary Style

Elder Cannon found a street sign 

with his name on it :-)

Alejandra's Baptism

(First baptism of my mission)