We found Sergio again!! It was the best thing ever! We were
teaching his dad and Sergio just walked out and sat down with us. It was like a dream come true! The only problem was that we were already 30
minutes late to a meeting so we couldn't stay long. But hopefully we can be able to see him more
often now. It seems like all the
excitement he had before is gone now... He hasn't read or prayed since we
saw him last. But that will change
soon!!
We met some super cool people this week while
we just biked around. One guy we found,
turned out to be a recent convert, but he dropped the church right after he was
baptized for some reason. But he is
super cool! He just moved here and is
planning to open a surf shop on Seawall. So we gave him our number and he said he might
call us so that we could help him set it up. We also met a guy who is gutting his house. We helped him move a bunch of cabinets into
his house. And then, because we ended up
moving like 2 big trailers worth of cabinets, he tried to pay us and was super
persistent about it. Eventually we
convinced him that instead of paying us with money, he could just call us one
day and teach us how to fix houses. So
hopefully now we have two super sweet service projects in the future. The only problem is that they are both out of
our area and not Spanish... so its kinda hard to check up on them when we have
no real purpose...
And we got to serve in the community garden on
Wednesday morning. It was super
fun! In the middle of downtown, there is
a whole block were people can just garden. We helped this lady weed around her watermelon
plants. Too bad we didn't get to eat any
watermelon :( We all got super sunburnt
though. Now I am all pealy, haha
Moody gardens was super sweet! We went first to the rainforest pyramid.
It’s a 10-story green house and inside is just full of ponds and streams and
huge trees and jungle plants all over. And
then it is just filled with all types of birds flying around. There are even some giant parrots just
chillin. Then all the ponds are full of
crazy weird fish and turtles and rays, etc. And cruising around in the trees are sloths
and some little monkeys, haha. And then
there are rooms inside with other exhibits of animals and things that are in
cages or exhibits, like lizards and snakes and frogs. So they build a path that goes around and crisscrosses
the whole pyramid going up and down and all over. And then every once in a while there are other
animals like jungle cats and komodo dragons and bats and they are in the middle
of the rainforest too but just have nets around them so they can't get out. It was so sweet! We also went to the aquarium
pyramid too. It was like any giant
aquarium, just full of fish and sharks and rays and turtles and all other
marine life all over. I got a bunch of
pictures to send.
Finally, just one request before I wrap up. The Galveston Spanish branch needs prayers. We are really struggling and if we can't help
more people be more active and committed to the gospel and church, then they
could shut down the branch and just make us part of the English Ward. That would make it really hard for our members
that come now to still want to go to a church where they have to receive
translation. So pray for the branch and
for the members. And pray that all the
missionaries and leaders will know what to do in order to help the branch move
forward.
Thank you so much! Love you guys!
Elder Lund
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