Week 29

OK like I said last week, we had a big conference this past week and wow that was so cool we had Elder Golden of the seventy, come down to tell us about all the new world wide changes for missionaries! The real big change was the key indicators, we use to have  Investigators baptized and confirmed, Investigators with a baptismal date, Investigators who attend sacrament meeting, Lessons taught to investigators with a member present, Other lessons taught, Progressing investigators, Referrals received and contacted, New investigators, Lessons taught to recent converts and less-active members, and Service. Which I always thought was a lot, and now there are only, Investigators baptized and confirmed, Investigators with a baptismal date, Investigators who attend sacrament meeting, and New investigators, so first off that is a big change! And then they changed our daily schedule, made it more open, for the Holy Ghost to lead us and to Guide us, to where we really need to be! I lover the fact the they changed the it all up, because it makes it more on us to change the lives of others, and not so much on a fixed schedule, it gives us more responsibility to do our job! Other then that he goes on to tell us about the way of life and who we are, and how cool we are to be missionaries. It was a really long meeting but I enjoyed every moment of it!

 Then we went on exchanges, Elder Floyd to LSU and I got Elder Wilson here in Tiger Bend, it's always fun and I love to see how other missionaries work because you get to see other ways to talk to people and to teach the people here in BR! So Wilson came out with me and he has been in New Orleans, the whole time he's been out,(on him mission) until he moved up here to LSU, and it was funny to see him in Baton Rouge. We went tracking and he was expecting people to be out and about walking around and siting on the porch just hanging out, but the difference between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, is people here have jobs, and so no one is ever home, so I just thought it was funny, to see the difference!  

 So there is this family we are working with, and we were over there the other day for dinner/lesson, and we were trying to help one of the kids with his homework, and he is like 10 years old, and wow, he reminds me... well, of ME! It's funny because he had a long day at school and then he went right to baseball practice, then home for dinner and now it's like 8-ish and he's asked to do his homework. HE does not have much left in him to do his homework, just like I would be! But Elder Floyd sits down with him to start his homework, and it only like 20 math problems, not that a big of deal because this kid is smart and I know he can do them all real fast. So he gets started and he is working well and getting them done, he gets distracted here and there but he doing really well, and then he comes to the last problem, and this problem is a little bigger then the last 19 and he has a little beak down, he said that we were doing this one wrong, and that we don't understand, and that we don't know, (we knew the answer) but he did not want to put in the little extra effort into finish this last problem because all he sees is the wrong way, and he does not want to listen to our way. And wow this hit me the other night, we as people do this all the time we get worn out and we get fed up with life, and we don't see any way to get thru it all, but it's funny because there is someone that has all the answers! And He's is waiting to help us if we are willing to listen to his Answer! 

So the start of this week was kinda crazy yesterday we were on tornado watch all morning, it was raining harder then I have ever seen it, and once we stepped outside it was like 85 and blue sky's, it kinda makes me mad how fast the weather can change down here, but it's ok I guess! 

Anyway love you all hope you have a good week.

Love Elder Gordon