I can't believe that my month mark is already hear! It is crazy
how fast the time flies out here. It is so fun to finally start to adjust to my
area. I can now navigate around pretty well, and am starting to understand
which streets lead to where I need to go. This week the weather finally turned
cooler! It has been so fun to ride our bikes in 75 degree weather instead of
100 degree weather:) I also want to say thank you for the wonderful package
with my hoodie! It made my whole week:) Also I loved the package full of all of
the letters from the brothers. Sounds like everyone is doing well and having a
wonderful time in school. Also tell the Lloyds I enjoyed there package and
letters.
This week has been a good week. I starting to realize that
becoming the missionary the Lord wants me to come is going to take a lot of
work! We had this District leader meeting, where we talked a lot about striving
to become a better missionary. We also talked about over coming the things in
our lives that keep us from being a consecrated missionary. I left the meeting
determined to work on the things that were holding me back from reaching my
true potential. This week I also got to go on an exchange with elder Stewart.
He has been out 10 months and is an awesome missionary. He came to my area, and
for the second time I have the privilege to show him around are area. On our
exchange we biked a tone! We went around and tried to visit all of these
potential investigators, but we did not have very much success. We then tried
to go to these apartments over in Haltom, but again no one was home. Following
that we decided to go and try to contact a referral we had received from the Spanish
elders. It was a really long bike ride, but when we finally go there she was
home!:) She is a really nice lady named Cay. She really likes to talk, and we
even got to teach her the restoration and gave her a Book of Mormon. We then
asked her if she would read the introduction and 3 Nephi 11 when the savior
comes. It went really good, and I am excited to teach her more. When we got
home from Cay's house we calculated it and we had rode around 12 miles!:) The
following morning we meet with an investigator we had meet while contacting a
week ago. His name is Lloyd. He is really in to family history so we brought
him to the family history center. He was pretty excited and we signed him up
for familysearch.org.
Following that we got back together with are normal companions.
This week we also got to go on some awesome ward member
exchanges. Our first one was with this really cool returned missionary named
Josh. With him we went and taught the Peralta family (this is the family with
the cute little girl I had the chance to baptize) and we showed a little movie
about the restoration and Joseph Smith. It was really good, and we are hoping
the father of the family felt the spirit so he will hopefully come back to
church! Also with Josh we went and say Cay, she is the lady I was talking about
earlier. Her car was having some problems, so she was in the middle of trying
to buy a part for it. We didn't get to teach her a lesson, but we did ask her
how her Book of Mormon reading was going. She said she had read the chapters we
gave her and that she had prayed to know its true. She said the answer she got
was that she needed to keep reading. The next exchange this week was with
Brother Yule. He is the wife of the primary president and is a great guy. With
him we went and say the Websters. They are one of my favorite families, but
this week they got really offended by a situation with some of the members.
They were pretty frustrated, but we visited with them and helped them feel a
little better about the situation. We also went and saw this really nice young
couple whose names are Adam and Gabby. We have been trying to see them for a
month now, and they finally answered:)They told us that life had been pretty
crazy lately, but that we could come by next Friday. We are pretty excited to
go and teach them.
This Sunday we had a wonderful sacrament meeting. This really
nice younger couple named the Atkinson's gave talks. The wife told her
conversions story. It was pretty powerful and strengthen my testimony of the
truth of this wonderful church! Brother Atkinson talked about being a true
disciple of Christ and how we need to be praying, reading the scriptures and
going to church. It was simple, yet powerful. The cool thing about Bro Atkinson
is that he served his mission in Taiwan just like you dad! It was fun to talk
to him about it. We also got to go to this really cool family for dinner named
the Morris family. They had this crazy dog that would jump all over you! It got
hair all over my suit pants:) They feed us this Guatemalan soup dish that was
really yummy. We also had some amazing Blue Bell ice cream! It was sooooo
good:)
Well I hope you are all having a wonderful week! I love you all
and pray for you ever night. Thank you again for all of your support and love.
Love,
Elder Griffin
Also
here is a funny little picture we took of me sitting in front of our sad little
empty fridge the day before we went shopping:) ha ha
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