Hardest, Most Awesome Week

This was one of the hardest weeks and one of the most awesome weeks of my mission. Actually, the hardest and the most awesome.  One of the things that president stresses a lot is obedience. duh. but yeah. So one of our amies that we contacted and then set a rendez-vous with tried to do the bizzou to me right when she walked up to me. (That's the kiss on the the cheek thing). Elders are not allowed to do that. So I did a barrel roll out of the way, not really but I like jumped away. It was mad awkward. I had to explain why I couldn't do it. Elder Webber made fun of me for hours and hours. The next day, we went bat porting (knocking on doors). The first door we knocked on, the lady let us in and we taught the family a lesson and she invited us back. Same with the second door. At the 3rd door we knocked on there was a woman who was baptized ten years ago in Portugal, but then she moved here. She didn't know that there was an LDS church here. So now she is going to come to church with us next week. She has tons of kids who want to be baptized! I know that we had so much success just because I didn't kiss a pretty lady.

We helped reactivate a woman who was in a bad situation and the ward loved it.  Everyone loves her and is taking care of her.

This week I started to realize how big of a deal missionary work is. God trusts a bunch of nerdy 19 (18) year olds to go find his children. That is such a big burden. There are some people who are very, very lost, but I have a testimony that God never gives up on anyone. He sends his missionaries to people who need it and I saw that so many times this week. It is true that missionaries walk under the hand of God.

So they say that the more days you work in the rain on your mission the hotter your wife is going to be. Awesome for me and even more awesome is that my umbrella broke.

There are going to be a lot of changes in my district at this next transfer day. Two elders are going home and I know that a lot are getting transferred. I'm pretty sure that I'll be staying in Cergy and  Elder Webber is leaving. He is district leader so we are getting a new one.

Time is going by so fast! Its halfway through October! I can remember the Halloween dance at SVU last year so well. That's cray!

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One more thing! I'm doing a presentation at the college here about America. Can you email me a bunch of picture of me (or not) that represent the american life?