Dear Mom,
This week we have done lots more biking and I have been so exhausted at times!
Monday was a good P-day. That evening we tried to visit some people and then we had a pretty good Family Home evening with a Hispanic Family and one of their neighbors. They fed us dinner, we did the minute-to-win-it cookie on the face game for our activity. We watched the Restoration video with them for part of our lesson and it went really well.
Tuesday we did our studies and then the Thibodaux Elders came down for exchanges and we made lunch for them. Then Elder McRae and Elder Cannon drove back to Thibodaux and Elder Young stayed with me. We drove to an appointment and had a great Book of Mormon read with a super cool guy that we are teaching. He is super Cajun and is a bit hard to understand but its fun to teach him. We then drove to Patterson and we had some appointments fall through but we also had a few good little lessons there. After those lessons we drove to Baldwin and sadly our appointment way out there feel through. We then went to our appointments in Franklin and we had a great lesson with one of the guys there. Then we drove back home and we ate some dinner.
Wednesday morning I did a good workout and we had breakfast and did some studies. We then left to go to District Council in Houma. On the way, while driving on the freeway at 76mph, I looked back and saw that Elder Young's bike was halfway off the bike rack and leaning down bouncing up and down as we drove. I quickly pulled over and went back to fix it. The left side straps had come off so that it was only hanging on by one side. The back end of the bike had come off completely and was vertically angled down and horizontally angled 45 degrees away from the back of the car. We were lucky that it didn't touch the ground (that we know of) and that we were able to put it back on and continue to District Council. We had a great council and then we exchanged back and we all went to lunch at Sam's Club. We then drove home. As we passed through Morgan City, we stopped at some appointments and had a few lessons. We tried to make some other visits but didn't have much luck. We had a great lesson with Dominique and Shawn and then we grabbed some dinner and headed out to Jeanne's. We had a great lesson with Jeanne and her two daughters and they said they would come to church. We later were able to visit another family we are teaching and then we knocked for the rest of the night.
Thursday we had our studies and then we started our weekly planning which went really well. We took a break for lunch and then resumed. We then rode our bikes to a neighborhood about 1.5 miles away and tracted for a while. We biked back, ate some dinner and then we headed out to some appointments. We tried to visit some people in Morgan City and then we went to Amelia and about half of our appointments feel through so we had a few lessons and tracted the rest of the night.
Friday morning we did our weekly singing at the nursing home by the church for an hour and then we came back, did some studies, ate lunch, did some more studies and then we biked to an appointment in Bayou Vista and had a good lesson on the Book of Mormon with our man Joseph. We then biked to Jeanne's and just one of her daughter's joined us this time but we had a great lesson on the Temple and Family History Work. After our lesson with them we biked across the freeway to the other side of Patterson and we had about 5-6 pretty good lessons and we tracted a little in between. It was a pretty good night. We were trying to visit some people in the back corner of an apartment complex and we saw a couple bears. It was super dark and the corner we had to walk around, where the dumpster was, had a light that kept going in and out. We were walking up to the corner and Elder Cannon had his phone light on to scare any bears away and he started freaking out a bit and backing up saying, "Elder, that's a bear!" We backed up away from the corner and I started to book it away saying it was right there and I scared the heck out of Elder Cannon, it was hilarious. They were a little ways away from us so I wasn't too worried but Elder Cannon was pretty scared, lol. While backing away we met a guy standing in his doorway and taught him for a bit. We then biked back across the freeway and on home. By the time we got home, I was so dead.
Saturday we had our studies and lunch and then we drove to Bayou Vista and did some tracting. We then went to an appointment and had a great lesson. We had another great lesson after that. We then made some calls for a while and then had some more great lessons. Later we drove to Amelia and we had 3 good lessons there and tracted a bit at the end.
Sunday we made some calls in the morning and then we stopped by a number of people's houses to make sure they were coming to church. We did everything possible on our part to get people to church and we were able to get 10 of the 21 people who committed to come to actually come!!! It was so awesome to have them all there!! All I can say is. . . "God is good!" We did some studies at the church after sacrament meeting (the last 2 weeks we have only had sacrament meeting so that member can go over to Florida to help out) and we ate lunch. Then we biked to some appointments; we had about 3 lessons and we filled in some time by doing a comp study in the shade in the grass at an apartment complex because it was fairly cool outside. We then taught some others and biked back to the church. We put the bikes on the car and drove back home to do a language study. We then biked to Morgan City across the sketchy bridge and we tried to visit some people and then we had dinner with the Grahams. After dinner we tracted and found a new person to teach.
There is so much Joy to be found in helping others and not yourself! Until next week!
Love,
Elder Acton
The dumpster where we saw the Bears
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