Week 66

Happy Halloween, everyone! This was another very busy week for me out here in Monahans. We helped out with a bunch of service for our members and for the community, which made the days go pretty quickly.
MONDAY no one got together for p-day because the zone leaders had to go to El Paso for the day and no one thought it would be very fun. So Elder Hardy and I decided to go check out the Sandhills State Park here in Monahans. It was a lot of fun climbing and running on the sandhills, definitely a good workout!
TUESDAY we spent almost all day just up in Kermit trying to get in contact with a bunch of the media referrals we had gotten over the past couple of days.
WEDNESDAY another one of our friends, Jessica, got baptized! It was a really awesome experience to see just how much she valued having the gift of the Holy Ghost, even though we couldn't understand each other.
THURSDAY we helped a member by carving his pumpkins for him as a "service." Then that night we went and helped out at the event center for a big Halloween party they were having.
FRIDAY I had a really good exchange with Elder Lee! We spent almost the whole day just teaching their friends in Fort Stockton.
SATURDAY we got transfer news and unsurprisingly I'm being transferred again. I'm going to the Red ward in the Mt. Franklin stake. Transfer 12 and companion 12.
SUNDAY we had a Spanish sacrament meeting for the first time and it went really well! I even was able to say the closing prayer in Spanish. I also spent a lot of time that day saying goodbye to a bunch of my favorite members.
Mormon 7:5 says, "5 Know ye that ye must come to the knowledge of your fathers, and repent of all your sins and iniquities, and believe in Jesus Christ, that he is the Son of God, and that he was slain by the Jews, and by the power of the Father he hath risen again, whereby he hath gained the victory over the grave; and also in him is the sting of death swallowed up."

1- Sandhills
2- Baptism
3- Pumpkin
4- The Zone
5- Funny family
6- Monkey





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