Abilene week 5 round 2

Contacting pays off.

This guy we found out in the street this week that makes super cool double decker bikes. After talking for like 10 minutes he offered to let me ride one, and how could I say no? 

Tell both Grandparents Moffitt and Grandparents Coats thank you so much for the packages they sent! Elder Cruz was also really excited about his letter from ya'll. I do have something I want to send you mom for your birthday in a week, but I'll have to send it off next week. So, I didn't forget, But It's just coming down the line. Also, Shawn who we were teaching in Hereford got baptized a couple weeks ago. 

I'll start at the beginning of the week. We had to spend some of last p-day getting flu shots, so I took a commemorative picture there.

At the end of the day Bro Coulam came out with us to teach a lesson, but they weren't there, so after trying our backups, he took us out for burgers and ice cream. Yeah, pretty legit.

We had another really cool experience this week on Friday evening when President and Sister Heap came in the night before the service project and invited Elder Cruz and I out to eat. We went to Texas Roadhouse. Wow. What a unique experience. Dinner with just us and the mission president and his wife. 

 

This week the Abilene stake had a service project in Winters Texas and all the missionaries were invited to attend. They ran out of the famous yellow vests there were so many volunteers, so I didn't get to wear one. But it was tons of fun. We ended up sanding down some basketball hoops and the city hall sign, then painting over them again. More pictures on the way.

There were 2 basketball hoops we were assigned to sand down and re-paint, but we only had one ladder. So, I decided to take matters into my own hand and speed up the process. I shimmied up one of the hoops and got started sanding to top while the ladder was over at the other one. Unbeknownst to me, President and Sister Heap who came to the service project went around to visit all the stations. Minutes after I had climbed up to the top they arrived at the basketball hoops. Oh my gosh. It was a mixture of extreme fear and also amusement as to see what was about to happen. Sister Heap runs over and takes a bunch of pictures (which are on the blog they do. I don't know if you know about it?) and then tells me to be very careful. Then President Heap walks over and doesn't say anything. I just smile and told him how I wanted to be more efficient with the work. He says, alright well be careful Elder Moffitt. Whew.

 

Elder Yorgeson and Laudie over there team cutting some wood. This week Elder Yorgeson came out to Abilene to do exchanges with me. Elder King half trained Elder Yorgeson after he left from being with me. So pretty cool relationship. We were actually able to do 8 hours of service this week (our limit is 10), so that was pretty awesome.

And here we are painting the city hall sign too. Looks pretty good I'd say.

So Elder Cruz likes to go to the bathroom a lot. Sometimes in the wrong one. But guess who was waiting to capture the perfect picture? Just look at that face....

 

Starting at the top left we've got Elders Stringham, Squire, Orgerb, me, and Yorgeson. Then at the bottom we have Sisters Miller, Kramer, Bearnson and Elder Cruz. There's our district

As for church there were 37 people this week at Sacrament meeting. Sandra and Odalis made it out as well as Leonardo. Our new investigator Nick is doing well. We tried really hard all week to get in contact with him and we finally did last night. Turns out he got a new job (he mentioned "Wow, I got that job right after I started meeting with ya'll. Funny...). We had a sweet lesson and challenged him to be baptized on the 22nd of November. He accepted! Pray hard for him because he and Silvia will need to get married before then and he's got lots of bad influence working against him right now. But he felt the spirit really strong. In fact, when we left he told us, "Now be sure to call me tomorrow ok!?" How many people tell you that?

 I love you Mom! I love you Dad! I love you Meagan! I love you Courtney!