Back in Vidor

Right now I'm chilling st the Vidor chapel! Feels like I am back at home! Elder Douglass had to get a prescription refilled and vidor is the place to do that. We drove out here this ,morning and we gotta drive back so I don't have a ton of time.  

Near Vidor Chapel

We saw lots of times this week where the spirit led us to exactly where we needed to be! One example was we had an appointment at 4 and we were driving there. Elder Douglass was asking me for directions since he is new but I felt like we shouldn't drive to our appointment yet so I just told him to take a left instead of a right. So we started talking to a couple of people and we met this family that had just moved in and the mom was a member. Her daughter in law who isn't a member is living with her to take care of her and we got to teach her! She said she was actually looking up where the church was for her mom and couldn't find it. They were not able to come this week but we are hoping that they will come next week and we will get to teach the daughter in law and her family!

Another example was after we went and saw one of our recent converts we felt like we should stop by some members home. They are older and they have a hard time doing things and when we came by they needed help moving some stuff upstairs so we got to help them for a little bit! 

This week I went on exchanges with Elder Peterson from Payson UT. He came to our area right after zone conference and we were able to teach a  couple of really good lessons. We taught an awesome one to a mom and her 8 year old daughter and we talked about how the doctrine of Christ is the only way to true happiness and the spirit was really strong. 

We had our recent convert Art speak at Sacrament meeting and our zone conference so he is on fire! He just got a temple recommend this week so we are looking for a time that he can get off work so we can go with him :) I love the people I'm serving and I love the opportunity I have to share the news of the gospel of Jesus Christ! I hope you all choose to remember and follow your savior because he is the source of all light! Love you all!

Elder Larson 

Mom’s Questions:

Tell me about meeting Geoffrey Pears (my former student) at the YSA activity.  He sent me a message saying he met you. 

So I met Geoffrey at a YSA boating activity. We couldn't really do anything but we planned our lunch for up there because free food. When I walked out he knew just who I was which I’m getting pretty used to in a YSA.  He said he recognized me immediately from you talking/posting about me.  He was a great guy and sounds super smart!

The girl that is coming up to BYU from our branch wants to meet you when she gets up there. You will have to have her over for dinner or something sometime since I don't think she knows anyone up there. She has been a convert for like 3 years and was in the Fall Creek ward as well!

How are your ward’s rolling out the new ministering program and do the missionaries assist in the efforts?

 Our ministering stuff all got rolled out, they are still thinking of ways to include us on the efforts but we eat 

dinner with families pretty often so dinner messages are a great time to help out. 

Do you have a washer and dryer at your apartment?  Or do you go somewhere to do your laundry?

 We have A washer and dryer at our apartment 

What is a typical Sunday for you?  Where do you spend your time?

 A typical Sunday we either have branch council or ward council depending in the week so we are usually get up and leave by 8:40 and then we are at the church from 9-5 and then we have dinner and will try to go see some people after that 

What have you learned about your new companion this week?

My companion was actually baptized when he was 9 which is funny because we actually found a 9 year old that we are going to try to be teaching. He has baptized like six 9 year old kids on his mission