Tuesday was my six month mark, and we celebrated by flooding our apartment. I was sitting at the table, reading the Fam Bam that mom mailed to me, and I looked down and there was water coming toward me. I hadn't heard it because all the showers were on, but something burst under the kitchen sink and there was water gushing out (like what happened at Aunt RaeLynne's - remember, mom?). Anyway, we eventually stopped it but had a good inch of water in the kitchen. It was pretty exciting.

 

Also, sister Moore and I discovered that we really like singing together and we've been having lots of fun with that and we had a musical number at our last Zone meeting. We sang Joseph Smith's first prayer to the tune of Come Thou Fount, and it turned out rather well.

 

So, remember how I said we found Dominic last week? I have two more stories because of that.

 

Primeramente, we were teaching Dominic, and he seemed to know everything. We were going to review all the lessons, but we decided to just have him be interviewed and start the process of getting permission to be baptized. So we went over the interview questions, and then he had his interview, and after he left we talked with Elder Lindsay, who had interviewed him, and he told us there were a couple of things we needed to work on with him, but that technically he passed, but he wasn't sure what we should do because he was a little concerned. So he called the Zone leaders, and they called the APs, and the APs talked with President Maluenda, and then the next night Elder Lindsay told us that Dominic needs to wait 2 years before he can be baptized. We were pretty bummed, and we went and talked with Dominic about it and he opened up about some problems he hadn't told us about and said that he actually would want to wait 2 years, so in the end revelation is real and maybe I'll come back to Texas in a couple of years for his baptism :)

 

The second cool story is that when we were looking for Dominic, I was on an exchange with the STLs, and sister Perez and I knocked on the wrong door and this lady was like "Oh, are you here to see Alan?" and we said, "sure!" ha ha. We'll take about any excuse to get in a door. Anyway, we went in and they took us into Alan's room, and evidently he used to be super normal but then an accident or something happened and now he's lost use of his legs and only has limited mobility of his head and arms, but can use an iPad to communicate and understands completely fine. We went in there, and then his nephews wanted to be there, too. We had the sweetest lesson about the plan of salvation, and they all wanted to learn more. We went back once or twice more, but weren't sure what to do because he'd need a ton of family support, and we weren't sure if the family was willing. We went by on Saturday and brought a member of the bishopbric and had an incredible lesson with the family and they said if Alan wanted to go to church they would take him, but that he didn't like leaving his house and that missionaries from other churches had tried to get him to go to church and he had never wanted to. We went in and briefly talked with him and he said he wanted to go! So we worked things out and the mom brought him and he loved it. It was the first time in his life that he'd ever been and he wants to go back. We're hoping that the family will open up and want to start listening more, the little kids love it though and have been waiting for us when we come.

 

At first I felt a little awkward about the situation and honestly was thinking how the ward would think about it, thinking they would be like "oh, they're just teaching handicapped people because they're stuck into listening," but it has been such a sweet experience to be trusted with these souls. Moral of the story, don't be afraid of judgment and just love everybody.

 

Miracles happen :)

I love all ya'll ;)

M