So Saturday was transfer calls night and yes the assistants did call us. Elder Davis answered the phone so I walked over with my hand held out ready to receive the transfer notice...

 

Nope, I will stay in Allen for another 6 weeks! So I will be here as long as I had been in Nac. Wild. Considering I only have 12 weeks left, it could be a interesting run for the gold.

 

So just a funny highlight before I dive into the miracles. I have become a coupon shopper under the education of our Bishop's wife. We do numbers and send in reports every Sunday night at the Bishop's home and its only a one man job that Elder Davis always volunteers for so I get to chat it up with the Thomas family. His wife got me hooked on the stuff. Last week I bought a gallon of milk and 3 boxes of cereal for $1.46 and this week it looks like I'll be getting proglide razors for 89 cents. I am also working on a deal right now to get crest advanced whitening strips and am currently up to $15 off so far... Anyways...

 

Every Monday we have been teaching a 19 year old whose mom absolutely hates the church. He told his best friend who is a member that he would love to be baptized except he doesn't have the means to move out, get a car, etc... So we meet with him again tonight and are hoping for the best. Someday he will be baptized so it is not a matter of if, but when.

 

Tuesday we had the most powerful zone leader council ever. It was President and Sister Smith's last one so they went out in apostolic style if I do say so myself. President Smith read out of the Book of Alma and compared himself to Heleman overseeing the stripling warriors. It took him some time to really get through it because he thoroughly considers us his sons. It was awesome. One of the Assistants is going home this cycle and he bore a testimony that really touched me. He was in a lesson and at the beginning he was talking about what missionaries do but when its all over he will go home and be a regular person. Well the zone leader that he was on exchanges with corrected him and said "we will go home and continue to serve God." It was awesome...

 

Wednesday I opted to give a training in a district meeting. I need it! I spoke on how missionaries need to act as angels sent from God and to develop the required Christlike attributes. I am at the point where it took 5 minutes to give a 20 minute training. I recorded it on the voice recorder so maybe I'll try to send it home on a disc. We will see, there are still some embarrassing moments. I really think that the reason I felt I needed to give that training was because I am lacking in the 'acting as an angel' department.

 

Friday we had a discussion with our next baptism, Mike. It is getting a bit intense because he was scheduled to be baptized this coming Saturday and he would do it and wants to do it except his coffee addiction is smack dab in the way. He had spent the night before our lessons cruising on lds.org for 6 hours so I think we will be ok. Please keep him in your prayers.

 

Saturday was unique. We drove up to Mckinney in the evening for dinner with a missionary who is going home on Wednesday. We had a great relationship the whole time we were around one another so it is pretty surreal to see him depart. We had 3 COR baptisms in our ward and were invited by a family because they had many non-members there. It was a great interactive experience.

 

Sunday we had a few non-members show up to church, which we got return appointments with. One being a man named Jose who has been taking lessons from the spanish missionaries for months. At the end of church I started to get to know him but then went into missionary mode and taught him about how God knows him, then committed him to live the word of wisdom, then ask God if the Book of Mormon is true, and then be baptized. He readily agreed which was pretty awesome.

The branch also threw a big party for Dina's birthday which was awesome so Elder Davis got to say bye to her.

 

This morning we taught a lady who loves the church. She easily committed to baptism but was a bit saddened at the fact that she has to marry or move out of her boyfriend's place before that happens. I think the spirit will work with her pretty well.

 

During ward council in the branch we have a high councilor assigned who always attends. While waiting for tardy leaders we shot the breeze about Metcalf mortuary. His dad was Robert L Simpson who was a GA whom dad took care of their funeral. They liked it so much that they had dad take care of his wife's funeral as well. Pretty cool....

 

Another huge highlight is for mom. If you recall about 15 months ago I reported a story about a girl in Nac that started taking the lessons after I approached her with the famous green eggs and ham. She did drop us shortly after the 3rd lesson because of some angst from her family. A couple weeks ago she went to church in Nac and told the missionaries she was now ready to be baptized...

 

Well Love y'all so much.

Elder Metcalf