On Friday we had exchanges with 4th ward. I went with Elder Salmond to 4th ward. All of our appointments cancelled so we were just walking around and some other missionaries called and asked if we wanted to borrow their car so we did. We were able to go visit some referrals in a part of the area that is hard to get to and really ghetto haha!
When it got to around 7 pm and it was getting dark we went and saw this referral named Chuck. So we knock on the door and this nice guy answered the door and told us that chuck was in the back. So we walked through the house and in the back there were 2 other houses and in between them there was this old hairy guy that grunting and trying to slam this gate closed. The super nice guy was like "That's Chuck. Just wait here for him." As were waiting for him this older women with like 2 teeth sneaks up on us and walks past us. She had a limp and everything. It was pretty sketchy. Once Chuck got the gate closed he just ends up being drunk and slurring at us, but he lets us in. When we get in there are cockroaches EVERYWHERE. It smelled like something died inside. We thought we were going to die but we ended up having a pretty good lesson with Chuck's roommate who wasn't drunk haha!
Saturday was a really good day. I went to Sweetwater and baptized Peter. I taught Peter last transfer before he moved but I was still able to baptize him. I saw Elder Nielsen there and after the Baptism we went and got Golden Spoon and me and Elder Nielsen talked for a while. It was pretty sweet!!!
After that we had dinner with a less active part member family. They are really cool and we were able to do some service for them!
Then we had the adult session of Stake Conference. The spirit was so strong. President Schmitt was there and he shared He Is the Gift and then he talked to members about how they shouldn't have fear as they share the gospel. It was really good and I feel like it's going to really pump up our members to want to do missionary work!
After we got out of Stake Conference, we saw that we had missed a call from Janette so we called her back and she told us that she was really depressed. Me and Elder Fraughton were soooo sad and we just prayed for a long time that she would be ok, but we set up an appointment with her on Sunday to make sure.
Sunday we went to Stake Conference and President Schmitt was there with his wife. He asked me and Elder Fraughton to watch his kids so that was pretty cool. We saw a little bit of the Christmas Devotional then we went to Janette's and we brought Brother Kullberg with us who is a nurse. He told her that she needed to go the hospital right away, but Janette didn't want to so we convinced her to stay overnight at a members house. We called a member that lived down the street from her and when we got there the member was like "it's weird I made my guest bed earlier this week like I was going to be excepting someone". It's so cool to see the Spirit work like that. We talked to Janette yesterday and she is doing great! She talked to her doctor and got some things figured out and she is feeling a lot better now!
Well I hope you are doing great and enjoying the Christmas season. It doesn't feel like Christmas here with all the palm trees and stuff but it's all good I'm having a good time!!!! Love you all!!!
Love,
Elder Christopher LaRochelle
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