volleyball and courageous...and In-n-Out

5 november 2012

Well Family this week was another week at the grind really cool with the Holiday and stuff just crazy. So last Monday was way fun after emailing and doing all the hectic stuff we played some volleyball this was fun because we have 2 samoans and another one from hawaii who love volleyball and way good then some members from the samoan ward came and played so it was super fun. They told me I actually am pretty good. Jumping and hitting for like 2 hours and some though I was tired my legs and my arm but it was way fun. Then at our trunk o treat we had a family I don't know if I told you but they want us to come by at least everyday just for a prayer or a thought or something as 2 boys have fallen away and the mom thinks its her fault but we have been doing that and its really cool cause as they let us come by we have really been able to build a good relationship with them cause another thing was its hard for them to switch missionaries all the time. So That has been really awesome. We had some sweet lessons with Alyssa this week and we had her committed to baptism for November 9th! Then we went over to go over it with her and her grandpa and he told us she can't get baptized yet until she turns 13. So that was a slight bit of a bummer but so goes the mission and seems like a lot of that for me... hahah just kidding... But we did have a lot of blessings this week too. So I mentioned the Holiday or the "holiday" of halloween. So they advised us again to not go out after 6 so we had a big mission party! SO we all went to the mission office and had some time to get to know the other missionaries then we were able to watch a movie that Sister Neider picked out and showed us. It was called Courageous! It was a movie about some cops basically making the resolution to become better fathers and people! So it was cool It was the same director as Facing the Giants so it was a cool movie with some good principles just missing some pieces hahah But that was really neat to get me excited about the future a bit but also to see the relationships and friendships I've built with all the missionaries. That was all after we had our Zone Leader Council too and that was cool to see the trust they put into us. I love President and Sister Neider and I know they ahve been called to be my Mission President and Mission Mom! We then had a really cool opportunity on Saturday we had a Stake Day of Service! We went down to a rougher part of North Las Vegas and we cleared out some vacant fields and that was a really cool although there was soo much to do and still a ton left. We got to serve with our ward and to see the trust we have already built and we also got to see Laurel Canyon and to see how much I did have somewhat of an impact on them in just 2 transfers so that was really neat. Then at the end there wasn't too many people so we were working and there were some big tree like weed things and so our member said if we can get these down quick I'll take you all our to In-N-out and so.. we did haha such an awesome family who really does trust us. so that has been the biggest blessing this week is all sorts of members showing to us and telling us that they have trust in us. We had a member with us as we contacted and he told us that we contact well and that was great and we just had multiple experiences this week to bear testimony that I am doing alright as a missionary. Some things I learned this week was the effect that we have in no matter what we do as long as we give ourselves and give our heart to it. Also from the movie the same way was the most valuable thing we can give is ourselves. Our time, our words, just us is the best thing for relationships family friends anything. I love you all so much! Thanks for all you do.

One Love,

Elder Dubois