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| Our Galveston Zone |
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| Hobbling around on a twisted ankle |
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| Acting like truly disabled |
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| Swapped crutches for a walker with this friend |
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| Pueblo, the guy we taught on a roof! |
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| Typical truck in Texas, look how it compares to the school bus behind it. |
So this week, President Ashton focused a lot on the fact that we
are not using the Book of Mormon enough and its true. You can never involve the Book of Mormon too
much. And because the prepared people
should accept the Book of Mormon almost right away, he wants us to teach with
it more than the Bible. And that is hard
because in this area everyone knows and only accepts the bible, but usually
when they say that they want everything to come from the bible all they really
want to do is bash us! So this should
help us save some time. I also realized
that the most success I have ever had on my mission came when we were reading
the Book of Mormon with everyone all the time. So we are going to start doing that again.
Also, Elder Mota and me found ourselves with a full day and
almost nothing to do. So being me and hating to be stuck in a car, we went and
explored our area on foot for a couple of hours. It was super fun!! We talked to everyone everywhere! People sitting on their porch, talking to
others, playing sports, arguing with spouses, even running and biking. And the one that tops them all was a guy on
his roof. We were walking by and we saw
a man on a roof so we walked to his house and asked if he needed any help. He said no. Then Elder Mota asked if he could go on the roof
and see how to fix one so he could learn. He was fine with it haha so we climbed up the
ladder to meet him on the roof. He
showed us a few things but then we tried to secretly teach him the restoration.
Well after a few minutes he caught on
and said he had to get back to work so he kicked us off :( But for a while we were ‘preaching the gospel
from the roof tops’ …literally. So
thrift!
Also this week, we finally had a lesson with a guy we have been
trying to track down for a month or so. His
name is David Martinez. Turns out he
repairs cruise ships so he is always traveling.
Now he is in the Bahamas for 2 weeks. Anyways, we went in and he just opened right
up to us, all about how his wife just got out of a 3 month coma and is
recovering way better than the doctors said and also about how his daughter
died when she was 4. Good thing we had a
super cool member with us! He just
started testifying about the plan of salvation and how God always works
miracles and wants us to be happy. David
loved it! He said that while he is gone
we can go by and teach his wife and sons whenever we want! His family should be super solid, especially
if we keep bringing this member, Hno Vargas.
But
the biggest news this week, well I don’t think its very big but you might, is
that while I was balling super hard Saturday morning while playing basketball
with some English members, I rolled my ankle super badly. I died... I couldn’t put any weight on it all
day. But I just kept on with the day and
we did all of our studies. By about
10:30, I was done for. It hurt super bad
and it hadn’t swollen or changed colors at all so everyone thought it might
have been a break. So we went to Dr.
Floyds and he did some X-rays and turns out it’s just a high ankle sprain and
then something to do with my ligaments, but I was distracted when he said that
so I can’t remember. All he did was wrap
it and then told me to stay off it for 5 days and it will be completely healed
in a few weeks. Bummer. So that
night, the mission doctor lady brought me some crutches and then on Sunday, an
English member saw me, went home, and came back and brought me a boot! So now I just hobble around on my boot and
crutches! Here are some pictures. In one of them, me and a member of my
branch switched. he has my crutches and I have his walker, haha
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