Cookin with the Spirit

Howdy y'all. Quite a bit has happened this week. Let's goooo.

Natchez

Okay so uh. Tuesday? We visited a bunch of people and had our interviews with president. We met a few cool people and cool stuff. We also got to eat with the Dollars. We went over the ward roster with them so now we know who to visit and who not to haha. 

Wednesday we had district council. We drive about 2 hours to get to Alexandria and then meet with the district. Pretty wild stuff. We met an inactive member who we visit after district council and it's pretty sweet. We also met a few more people that were previously being taught and set up stuff with them. It's kinda weird cuz you gotta tell them that there hasn't been missionaries around for months. But its chill. 

Thursday was straight visiting random people and trying to set up junks. But we did get to eat with a member who has a wild family. They have like 6 kids who are screaming the whole time haha. It was wild. We talked about enoch with them a bit. 

MTC Temple Men

On Friday we helped out with the veteran people for a good while. They give out clothes to veterans for free and stuff it's super cool. They're all catholic so we might get to go to mass with them sometime. They have one of those super old cathedrals it's super cool. We also helped a less active member move their ballet stuff over to a theater for a show. That was pretty cool. We had some other missionaries come and stay over for the mission conference on Saturday.

Cowboy Jay

Saturday we left early in the morning and drove down to Baton rouge for the mission conference. It was awesome. Every missionary in the mission was there. It was cool to see everyone and take a big ol picture and stuff. After that we got to hear from elder and sister martino, elder and sister Duncan, and elder and sister cook. That was probably the most spiritual experience in my life listening to elder cook. He gave the most powerful witness and it was so awesome. The chapel we were in was dead silent. It was the craziest thing ever. But it was awesome. I got to see the old MTC district too which was cool. Also elder obray and a few others haha. After that we went with some of the senior missionaries to canes and ate with them. We didnt have any missionary media so we were going with them to the mission office. We got our stuff and then also got a microwave! Sweet. Then we had the big long drive back. Yeahhh.

Icy Car

On sunday we watched the temple rededication instead of normal church. It was awesome. We also got to teach a kid who was recently baptized. His parents aren't members so there may be some good opportunities there. We later got to eat and talk with a bunch of members. They're awesome. They had a whole bunch of hot sauces. I tried one called like. Chocolate lightning. It didnt have any chocolate in it. It was just hot haha. But good. After that we watched the face to face broadcast with the members and it was good. The youth have a pretty lit program going on. I just missed it. 

Monday. We drove up to marksville and have been hanging out with the elder up here for exchanges. We got to go to an AA meeting. It was the testimony night or whatever they call it where the people say "Hi I'm Billy and I'm an alcoholic. Haha it was somethin else. Met a lot of people though. We need to go to that back in natchez. Good finding opportunity. But uhhh. Yeah. The mission conference was definitely the best. Yeah.

Elder Checketts 

Ps scripture time: Roman's 5:11

11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

This is the only verse in the new testament with the word atonement. It's really cool because the bible does mention the atonement but the Book of mormon really defines it. Not everyone down here even knows the word atonement. So we gotta help em out.