On Monday I got an amazing package from my mom, it was a Valentines day package and a 100 days on the mission package. It was great! I can't think of a ton to tell y'all this week. We got to do service for Habitat for Humanity which I love! They just started building a house here in Odessa this week so we were literally lifting up the walls and nailing them into the cement. It is so fun but we were soooo sore the next day! We get to use a super fun giant nail gun thing that attaches the walls into the cement. It is crazy to get to help build a house and see it progressing, hopefully we can go back again to help more! The boss was really appreciative of us because we came last minute when their other crew left and so he bought us some pizza, it was jalapeno and Canadian bacon and I was a little afraid that I would be too weak but it was actually way good!
On Thursday we had biked way out and our appointment fell through but it all worked out because we got a new investigator in their apartment complex! We also got a new investigator on Saturday. We didn't have any set appointments Saturday so we spent 5 hours trying less actives, potentials, and formers. Something to note about Odessa is that since there is nothing to do here no one stays in town for the weekend so in the 5 hours I think like 2 people actually answered. The miracle of our new investigator was that we were knocking on the door of a former (someone who had been taught before but had been dropped) and it just so happened that their neighbors were outside and told us no one lived in that apartment but showed us that they had moved to another apartment in the complex. We tried the other apartment but the former doesn't live there but the lady who does is SUPER interested! She told us she wants to come to church as soon as she has a Sunday off and that her aunt is actually LDS we asked her if we could leave her a pamphlet and then she was telling us how much she loves to read pamphlets, she turned to the back and saw the picture of a Book of Mormon and said "I have that book!" which was obviously a surprise, turns out her aunt had given her some copies a while back. Anyways, we can't wait to go see her again this week! The only problem is that she was a little confused, I guess one of her friends is Jehovah Witness and had been giving her pamphlets that she loved to read but she thought her friend was LDS. She was naming off the pamphlets and we obviously didn't recognize the names. After we left we realized why the pamphlet names sounded vaguely familiar, because they were the JW pamphlets we see in the laundry room at our apartments hahaha!
While we were walking away from Patty's apartment we got stopped by one of the neighbors who was out smoking and he said "you can't really be that happy can you?" to which we exclaimed "yes! we can! and here's why!" he wasn't interested in learning more but it was still a cool experience! We got to meet with one of our potentials this week (potential means that we found them while knocking and they said we could come back) he seems interested in at least learning. For the first two times we stopped we didn't even know his name so we called him beard guy. Anyways, Jeff is really nice and is going through a divorce right now, he has been in prison for selling drugs when he was younger and then was an alcoholic when he got out but now he has been sober for 6 years and really sees how the Lord has helped him get to where he is. He promised us he would come to church with us next week! We also have a lesson with a member with him this week! As we were leaving he asked us why we kept coming back to him of all people, we were able to testify of why we are out here and our sincere love for him and desire to help him become closer to Christ.
As you can see our week has been fairly good! Thanks for all the love and prayers!!
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