October 20, 2009

Hey!So this past week has been great. We had another baptism saturday! Her name is Becky Marquez, and the baptismal service was very nice. Bro. Bitner, the ward mission leader conducted the service, and his kids sang a musical number which was really nice. Then his wife did the refreshements and made it look really nice for Becky. The Spirit was strong and Becky was very happy. The white baptismal clothes we had for her were a little baggy so she did it gangster style haha. We were doing a little trackting the other day and we ran into this funny inactive lady of the church. I'm guessing she is single cause somehow we started talking about her house and how long she had lived there and she said, "This place is almost paid for honey! I'm getting my degree, gonna rent this place out top & bottom, and I got my eye on a condo is Cabo. Brand new, granite countertops. I'm gonna sit back, and let a Gabbana Boy rub my feet! Ahh! I think God is a woman and she's black!" That's what she said, but then she said she was just joking about the last part. Hahaha. It was funny...you had to be there. We had zone conference this last wednesday. I really enjoyed it, and the assistants and President and his wife gave excellent trainings. I was able to see some other missionaries that I came out with which was fun. At lunch is when I asked President is Jenni & the fam could come see me for an hour over dinner. He said yes! Booya! Haha I'm really excited! It'll be fun to see them on the 28th. We picked up a couple new investigators and a couple new baptismal dates this week. The Lord is jsut really blessing us in this area and I am so thankful to be used as an instrument in God's hands to do his work and to bring people into the Gospel. A guy recently got home from his mission and talked in one of the wards here, and I liked something that he said. "Although we aren't together with our families right now, we are helping families be together forever, and it's worth it." I agree. Sometimes it's tough, but it's all worth it in the end. We had a lesson with this little 9 year old girl yesterday and let me tell you, I didn't expect what happened. Her mom is 30 I think, single, they live in Stonehedge, and the mom is inactive. Briana is the girls name, and she went to the back to ask her mom something because she wouldn't come out for the lesson, and when she went back there the got in a huge fight! It's was intense. I was afraid Crystal, the mom, was gonna come out in the living room and do something to us. They were yelling and screaming at each other, the mom threw something, and then screamed at Briana to get out of her room, and then she slammed the door. Drama! It was crazy. Briana came out crying, but soon after cheered up cause she was excited to see us. I felt like leaving and coming back, but her fellowshippers wanted to stay. We said a prayer to invite the Spirit, and the lesson went pretty well, I just felt bad for the little girl. I went back to Dr.Grua's for a follow up appointment yesterday. All the pain is gone now and he said everything looks good. He checked for cavities and I have 3 small ones. He told me he would take care of them for me and not charge me anything..that we would just accept whatever the insurance covered. He is really nice and I have an appointment to go back on Nov. 10th. I take really good care of my teeth and brush & floss all the time so idk what the deal is. That's exciting that Garrett got the Aaronic Priesthood! Tell him congrats for me! I'm glad that Grandpa was able to stand in on it. :) Thanks for the goodie box!!! The cookies and popcorn balls are amazing. I put the halloween docorations up that you sent too. Sis. Landerman sent me a goodie box too, it was so thoughtful of her. I've shared some of my treats with Rosie. She feeds us on Tuesday's and I give her treats lol...it's funny, she loves it. We don't have any baptisms coming up this saturday, but we might have 1 or 2 on Halloween! Our area is doing well, but I think that I might get transferred next transfer which is on Nov. 11th. We'll see what happens though. I'll do whatever the Lord wants me to do. We went to the Boutiful Temple this morning and did a session. I enjoyed it and love sitting in the Celestial room. Well I better go. We are going to go get haircuts at some salon place that does it for free for missionaries. I love you all so much and miss you! I keep you in my thoughts and prayers daily. I am so thankful to be serving a mission at this time. The church is true! Keep me updated on all yalls missionary efforts! Every member a missionary!!! Love you!~Elder Watts