Transfers and Junk Sept 24th

at the oak grove football game

Howdy y'all. So transfers happened and I'm staying in Oak Grove. Super awesome. I got a new companion elder Jensen. Hes really cool. There was a devotional by president Nelson and its really good if you haven't seen it. It should be on the church website. Also we got Elder Mickelson who is pretty cool. Hes with elder Juarez. But uhh so. Nothing wild happens throughout the week till transfers. And then on thursday we went out to USM in the morning. The Spanish elders were teaching spanish class and we had some stuff to do out there. It was kinda wild. Cuz they had a mission leadership call while we were driving and went to a lesson with diane. So me and mickelson went in there. She was super distracted so it was hard to teach. But she said she would come to church. After that we had lunch with a member haha. Hes crazy. But uhh. We tried visiting a bunch of people and no one was around. We interviewed randy for baptism so that was cool. We visited more people. We ended up visiting the Spiers. The young ones. And talking to them and teaching them a lesson. It was really good. We talked about the plan of salvation and a talk called his grace is sufficient. It's really good. We had district council on Friday and it was good. Sister Jones who I came out with is in our district now haha. Pretty lit. But uh yeah.

at beignet au lait with elder Amidan

We did some planning and then went and saw Anna grace. We talked to her about choosing the right. Pretty goood. Then we planned some more. We were planning for the week hehe. But we went to a place called Mario's with the yuviencos. It was super good. We taught a quick lesson in there too haha. A lady next to us seemed really interested so that's good. BUT. Then we went to the Oak Grove high school football game. We volunteered in the concessions. Oh man. I almost died. I've never done so much math in my life. Super intense. We got to watch a bit of the game which was super lagniappe. Also the first Book of Mormon video came out! It's so cool. Like man I'm excited for the rest. And its something we can watch haha. So Saturday. We had breakfast with bro Tolbert at a place called Southmouth. It was really good. We went home and studied and such. Then we went out with some youth and visited a whole bunch a people. It was super good. And then we proceeded to panda express as tradition. We ate there and then hurried over to the church to teach a guy we found in area book. Turns out. It was his member girlfriend. She doesnt come to church so I didn't recognize her. Definitely the most awkward interaction I've had yet. But uhh. We talked with her and then we went with bro Tolbert again haha. He took us to a choir concert thing for the high school. It was neat. Pretty wack though. There was a sorta famous guy there. Gary Gibbs I think was his name. Church time. We went to church. Diane came it was awesome haha. Also a few other nonmembers it was sweet. We talked to a bunch of members and got info and stuff. Then we went home and studied. Then we went and biked around. We have been giving out a buttload of temple openhouse invites. That's what's been going on. The baton rouge temple is having an open house October 26 through November 2nd. We saw a whole lotta members though. We ate at bro Mitchell's which is always fun haha. They made like lasagna...but with spaghetti noodles. It was so awesome. Then after that invited more members and got to talk to a black man named patrick. Freakin dope guy. He owns many horses. Pday. We uh. Got some groceries. And then we played some board games. And then we went and ate at the careys. They are awesome. We gave then a ton of temple invites to give to people.  But then we got picked up by the brandon elders and drove down to Slidell Louisiana. Which is where I am now. Which is why I'm emailing now. But uhh. I'm here with elder amidan who I came out with. So we have been going out with elder Lutz and elder Hamm. It's been pretty fun to be back in lousiana. I had beignets for the first time. Super good. But uhh yeah we've been visiting people down here and such. Alright gotta blast. 

Good to see lousiana houses again

Elder Checketts 

Ps scripture time: 1 nephi 11: 11

11 And I said unto him: To know the interpretation thereof—for I spake unto him as a man speaketh; for I beheld that he was in the form of a man; yet nevertheless, I knew that it was the Spirit of the Lord; and he spake unto me as a man speaketh with another.

So nephi was talking to the spirit. And like it's cool to think that you can just talk to him like a normal person. Pretty sweet. Also helps kinda clarify that there are 3 separate beings. People in the south believe in 1 so. BOM proves em wrong. Haha