Monday, December 21, 2014
Merry Christmas everyone!!! Hope it's a jolly
one!
That’s so fun ya'll
went downtown! I miss that, especially this time of year. It’s pretty and
lively. That’s awesome Jordan sang as well. Yeah, I get to converse with ya
real soon! I can call, Skype or Facetime, its up to you. I’ll have all
available I believe. We'll be at Elder Ve'e's aunt’s, who lives down the
street. I’ll call around afternoon to evening.
Excited to hear from you or possibly see you
on Christmas! I’ve got 40 minutes. I’ll probably be
different! So, on Christmas, we have breakfast at some wardies, then lunch with
Bro. Knabel at the church and dinner with another ward family. I get to open
presents and have a Christmas tomorrow too. We have a mission conference and
then a party basically. We'll be there all day. Utah Utes for the bowl win,
heck ya!! Seems early for bowl
games.
This week was
exciting! Tuesday we had district meeting! I didn’t have
to do anything this time, but I enjoyed it. We lost our dinner calendar last
Sunday because the relief society president ran off with it. So on Tuesday, we knew
we had dinner, but couldn’t remember who and she had the calendar at her house.
I went to pick it up and she wasn’t home. I called her after and no answer. So
that was lame and stressful. But we lucked out because each family we ate with
this week would call or text us first. It’s funny because they were like
"Do we have dinner tonight? Are we doing that?” And we were like ohhhhhh,
yep. So, we got fed a lot and just hoped that they would keep letting us know.
We went to Jason’s
Deli with some newly weds on Tuesday. They were cool, but too lovey-dovey. It was weird.
Also picked up a new investigator who was working with the spanish sisters and
now got passed to us. She’s 9 years old and her family is less active in our
ward. We taught about baptism and I invited her to be baptized! My first
invitation! She accepted and her family wants us to work with all them. Plus we
can’t baptize unless the family will help her live the gospel and get her to
church.
Wednesday, we moved in
the Janson dude into the ward! He came from Atlanta and has a family of four.
He had tons of stuff and the elder’s quorum was supposed to help, but it ended
up just being us and them. That family is way sweet.
Thursday we
had an awesome day. We met with Kasey and talked about the plan of salvation.
She had some great questions. She told us the family situation. It turns out
she and Dave aren’t married. Dave
doesn’t believe in the restoration either. He’s friendly, he just doesn’t
believe everything we say and then talks and fights with Kasey after. But, we
got to understand more of her life and past. We just listened and then I bore
my testimony after her telling about everything she’s been through and putting
up with at the house. I told her the gospel just makes life easier and that
Christ will make us stronger and make good things happen if we let him. The
Spirit was strong and then the baptism invite just rolled off my tongue. She accepted.
We just need to figure out the marriage situation, help Dave see that some
of the things he has heard aren’t true
and help him understand the restoration. Hopefully Kasey, and maybe even Dave,
are baptized by January
31.
We went to see the
Albrights on
Wednesday too. They are
some investigators that were referred to us by bishop. Things haven’t gone too
well with them until recently and we've seen them for a month. We have had some
more serious lessons and we invited them to be baptized as well! There is a
mom, Brittany whos 11 and Loretta whos 12. The daughters accepted. The mom,
ever since we met them, said that she could feel the Spirit. Its too bad though
because she has that feeling but she could feel it more if she just read the
Book of Mormon or came to church. But, they’re starting too. They also get
super nervous to pray before we leave and they finally prayed this week! It
took a month to get them to pray. It was hard but it was emotional once they
did.
I went on an
exchange on
Friday to Bacliff, which
is right by the gulf shore. The elder I was with was a little rowdy and I had
to step up and tell him we don’t do certain things. I also lead out the studies
in the morning because I could tell he wouldn’t talk about anything spiritual.
It’s funny because he’s 24 and been out for 6 months. We had a good day though.
We saw lots of people and taught well together. We played guitar for a family
too. But, that day was terrible with the weather, it rained and flooded
everywhere. It rained for 13 hours straight. I haven’t seen anything like it
before. It was like a monsoon.
Sunday, I got to sing
in sacrament meeting. We had a group of ten members. I did not know what I was
doing because they wanted me to sing the alto line and an octave below. We only
had one practice last week and that didn’t help. It was scary but I finally
felt comfortable on the third verse. We sang Far Far Away on Judea’s Plains.
All of sacrament meeting was music. It was instruments and singing, way neat. Ashely
has been out of town for the past two weeks. She’s missed church, but we will
try and see her tomorrow.
The Garza’s came to church though! They came because they
had both of the kids this week. If they start becoming more active, their son
can be baptized. He is 9 yrs. old.
Last night was
pretty crazy. We had to usher 'The Messiah' Sing Along at a Methodist church.
So, we welcomed people and gave them programs. I mostly just told people where
the bathroom is. Then, they asked us to collect offerings! Weird, weird. A lot of
our stake came because members performed and so the stake president okayed the
collecting of offerings if we took off our nametags. But, we literally passed a
bowl around in another chapel, it was nuts. But a fun week as you can tell!
Love ya,
Elder Janz
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