First things first I'd like to give a shout out to Brad and Dori
Hobbs! They broke the streek of Elder Hobbs not getting a letter in the Robstown
house I almost made it two transfers without one that isn't missionary
related. So thanks for the letters... Right now we have a young missionary in
the house that gets letters all the time and then the other 2 missionaries have
like 3 girls writing them.
This week was great though we went back to the house with all
the labs just yesterday and right as we get there and get out of the truck they
bolt at us... This time I was prepared and wasn't caught off guard I smacked
one in the face with my backpack and was about to spartan kick the next
one but the owner called them off.... That was my Ammon moment for the
week my companion and I got a good laugh about it and the old guy just told us
we shouldn't have just stood there we should have kept walking and told them no
and they wouldn't have bothered us..... haha but the guy let us in and we
taught him about the book of mormon it went really well and he's committed to a
church tour and a baptismal date.
I've been working out a lot in the mornings and trying to get
back in shape. We've also recently gotten the chance to receive 40 referals in
a week so that was quite a miracle I've never done that before... Almost all of
them came from a member that is our ward mission leader. We drew up a family
with him we'd like to find and baptize around his city area and told him to
start writing down addresses of people who fit that description and people he
talks with in the mornings when he goes on his long walks and he hooked it up
for us so far most of the people have rejected us because it's a lot richer of
a neighborhood but we've found some really cool potentials and now have an inn
to an area that hasn't really been worked very hard by missionaries for a long
time. We just end up talking to alot of preachers around the area.
I've had an interesting week with coming across other
religions.... we saw a jehovah witness bash with a catholic nun across the
street from our house Saturday morning for a good 20 minutes, and then got
to talk with the lady that knocked on our door. I was on a split with a priest
in the ward and we went to his friend's house that's baptist and we answered
all his questions about the mormon church and that went well the
baptist church trains up there 16 year olds to ask those hard questions. haha
but something I've learned is that the church always has an answer, there is
always doctrine behind everything and sometimes the answers cannot be
understood by the listeners just think of Christ and his teachings none of the
pharisees understood anything he said because they didn't have open hearts,
ears, and eyes so some answers take people back a bit if they're not understood
by the spirit or pondered out in thier minds. It's been a testimony builder to
me to be on the mission and come across so many different types of beliefs and
different churches and to know that there's only one that has the fullness of
the gospel, only one that can open up the gates to the celestial kingdom for individuals.
Other than that that's basically how my week went lots of random
things happening to us. I've been working on slimming down and getting my
muscles toned I also don't wanna be a dead missionary so I'm gonna continue to
work my hardest and get the most out of these final strides. Heston's gonna
have to start working out cuz I still got the belt that we stole from Sam
before he left. Hope you all have a good family home evening tonight and also
work on making sure the family is really strong in the relations which we have
always make sure that Christ is the center of our relationships. Like mosiah
2:17 says when were in the service of our fellow man we're in the service of
our god..... so if were in the service of helping ourselves then were serving
ourself so make sure you serve your lord by serving one another.
Have a great week I love you all!
Elder Hobbs
