#senditfortheboiz

Well well well..... here I am again. The exciting news this week is that we got a car but we only get 200 miles a month haha! So really we only take it to district meeting and church! Also the weather this week was awesome! It was so perfect! It actually felt like Fall here! On Sunday, I couldn't help but just smile it was too good!!!

Pday last week was pretty legendary, I had my first Canes! There isn't one in Vidor but on our way back from picking up our car we stopped in Beaumont and had some and it was ballin! Excpet I ate way too much and then I wanted to die while we were playing spikeball. But go drive yourselves to Vegas if you want some Canes friends and fam!

We did a lot of biking this week. On Tueday we were on our bikes from 1-8:30! Basically, we biked the areas that got hit really hard and would just stop and offer help. We were able to move some sheet rock for someone and gave our number to everyone and offered to come help them finish their house. After dinner, we were biking to go give these people we are teaching a purpose drop lesson since they hadn't been keeping any of our commitments and we ran into one of them on the way there. Turns out he had just bought a ton of weed and was telling us that "the herb" can cure anything including cancer! Interesting people, they told us later in the week they don't want us coming by anymore. 

We also ran into a lot of different people from different relgions this week. Everyone here attends a church its pretty cool! I ran into my first Jehovah’s Witness and she was an interesting lady but really kind! We also tried to teach this guy that was an atheist and he was also very interesting.... Anyway, it really was fun just biking around and talking to people. We just bike and offer service and then if they ask us about our church or what we do then we start to teach.   A lot of people around here are part of a religion so they are pretty knowledgeable about what is in the Bible and what they believe and all that. The best thing we can do is teach in an environment where the spirit can bear witness to them that it is true. I love being able to say that I don't know all the answers to their questions and am not the perfect teacher but I know that I am called of God to teach his word. We always challenge them to read the Book of Mormon and then we can promise that they will feel the spirit bear witness to them that this is true! The hardest part is they already have good faith and are good people that follow Christ the best they can. It is kind of like that thing that Dad sent me that good is the enemy to great. They are so content with their bible and their way of life that a lot of times they don't see that the Book of Mormon or the fullness of the gospel can make their lives GREAT. 

We had the opportunity of teaching a guy on Sunday because we did some service for him! We were biking around and stopped to see if this guy needed help. He told us we could help him clean up his lawn and then not even 5 minutes after we started he was really impressed that we were just offering help to people and started to ask us some questions. We were able to teach him the restoration and then he started asking questions about what we do after this life and we were also able to answer those! We left him with a Book of Mormon and some pamphlets and we got a return appointment for November 9th! It reminded me of the story in Alma where King Lamoni was so impressed with Ammon because when he asked where this mighty man was they said that Ammon was down preparing his horses and serving him. I have a total testimony that service really opens peoples hearts!

Another example of that was people we helped out last week. We went by just to check up and see how they were doing. This time we were in our proselyting clothes so they didn't recognize us at first and slammed the door on us but then a couple of seconds later she opened it back up when she realized who we were and she was so glad to see us!

This week I also got my first experience of hanging drywall at a member in our ward that really was struggling and needed help so now I can kind of do that too! Its pretty fun learning how to do all of this stuff and being able to help people even though im not a professional!

Now for the story of the week! We were biking around and then these kids came up to us and asked if we wanted to hit their jump so of course I #sentitfortheboiz. It was this tiny little table top they built and they were so impressed I could actually jump it haha! Looks like all of these bike skillz are paying off! I also love to ride around in a wheelie and so I get a lot of thumbs up and people honking at me for that!

Anyway, I hope you guys all had an awesome week! I love the updates about Houston!  Sounds like you guys are all in for Houston! So am I! I actually don't hear much about it but I would love for them to win!  I think they are going to pull it out!  Hopefully they just win it in 6 because a game 7 would be crazy! Plus, this town deserves a win more than LA does!   It is so weird hearing about TV shows! I am so out of the loop! We were actually at a member’s home for dinner this week (they fed us Pozole and it was super good) and their kid was talking about how they wanted to see Stranger Things and I was like that came out forever ago but then I realized the new one is out!  And now that you saw our uniforms you can see how serious we were about this basketball tournament! 

I love hearing from all of you and I know that this is the Lords work and he guides us to the people we need to teach! Find little ways to serve people and it will bless your lives and the people around you as well! 

Elder Larson

Mom’s Questions

Did you get your piano book yet?

Yes, I got my piano book it was at the office!

What are your plans for Halloween?  Do you have a ward Halloween party?

For Halloween I think we might carve pumpkins just for fun but there isn't really anything we can do since our ward only had a party on Saturday for the primary kids

Did Vidor have their homecoming game yet?  Were you able to go?

Homecoming is this weekend!! I am so excited that we get to go!  Our ward mission leader bought us some tickets and that will be on Friday! Everyone gets out of school early and they have a parade and then we will go to the game that night. The town basically shuts down and so it wouldn't make sense for us not to go. I am so excited! football here is a huge deal and it sounds like the halftime performance is awesome. They do a lights out band performance with fireworks. We will probably bring A lot of pass along card and see what we can do! 

What are your plans for P-Day? 

Today we woke up, did the bat cave, did laundry, came back and emailed now we are getting Elder Bott’s haircut and then go shopping and then to the church for some spikeball! Then we will have dinner and a lesson with this lady named Cathy that we met!

Do you spend Pday with your district (I guess just you and the sister companionship?)

Yeah we spend it with our zone leaders who are technically in our district. The sisters will probably come play spikeball too 

Have you experienced any homesickness?  If so, what has helped you?

 Yeah, I think about home and things I did there but the mission really shows you what your priorities should be so while doing some stuff at home sounds nice there isn't anything I would rather be doing than being here in Texas!