Week 34: Party Animals

Hey y'all!

Ok, right off the bat, this was a pretty slow week in terms of teaching and missionary work but we did get several opportunities to serve! We've been pretty unlucky with being able to meet with people as of late and our tracting efforts have been very unfruitful, but sometimes it's just like that. Hopefully we have better luck next week!

We actually talked to our mission president about our predicament and he recommended a couple things. One was to try tracting in the mornings (which has been a bit better) and also to look for community service opportunities. Because of this we discovered that apparently Cotulla has a library! Aaand we live right next to it. Not sure how we didn't notice it before. Anyways, we stopped by one day and talked to the wonderful ladies who take care of it and offered our service. So on Friday we spent a couple hours taking the lenses off of the florescent light fixtures to wipe out the bugs and clean em up. There are a LOT of fixtures and a proportional amount of bugs to go with them hah. We're going back this week to finish the job and we'll probably go back and help with some other projects they need done. The library doesn't get very much support, so they appreciate all the help they can get!

This Saturday was also a member's daughter's quinceanera, so we helped them a couple of times this week to set up and get ready for that. These quinces are a big deal, so everyone was SUPER stressed. We did our best to alleviate some of that.

We don't get very many opportunities to serve out here (as I'm sure I've mentioned a couple times already) so we're always really excited to help haha. Whenever we pass by someone doing yard work or anything, we offer to help but nobody ever takes us up on it! Probably because we're wearing white shirts and ties... They don't realize that we like doing it!

We got to attend the quinceanera on Saturday which was kinda wild haha. It was funny because it was probably the most members of the church I've seen congregated in a couple months (because of family), but also the largest gathering of inebriated people I've seen...probably ever ahaha (because of family friends who aren't members). Such is the nature of the party life! Unfortunately. We didn't stay long, but we enjoyed some good food and talked to some really funny old people who kept roasting each other for being deaf. They gave us a lot of candy.

On Sunday the McDowells invited us and Mariah over for dinner in their 5th wheel. We had some absolutely delicious grilled ham and cheese sandwiches, fruit, and Bluebell ice cream. Which I just found out is a Texas thing. Good stuff. Mariah is doing awesome by the way! She's super happy and is actually being a really good member missionary. She's been talking to her coworkers about it :) We also have a group temple trip in the works that I'm super excited for! 

Honestly those are the highlights from the week. We've done a lot of knocking and stop bys, but nothing really of note happened. Again, the work is slow but we keep working hard! We have some prospective people who might progress with some time. Slow burn.

I hope yall have a fantastic week! Stay cool and if you come to Texas, don't dig up Bluebells. Apparently it's illegal. (turns out the state flower is important or something )

Love,

Elder DeWitt

 

My new FB profile picture in the classic Cotulla spot. A weird missionary inside joke.

The had a sort of photo booth thing at the Quince, so we took a picture with Nando (brother of La Quince)