Mardi Gras? More like Mardi Nah.

Hey y'all!

So once again, p-day is on a Tuesday for transfers. But, we got a text saying transfers are put off till tomorrow because of "Winter Harvey". So I’m guessing a winter storm or something... but here in Louisiana, it's just cold, there isn’t a storm though.

Well my week was full of different emotions! I hope this last week was good for y'all and that everything is going alright!

So first off, I'm being transferred! I'm going to Kingwood First Ward! That's in Houston and on the exact opposite end of our mission. It'll be a black and white difference than Jenning,Louisiana. But I'm gonna miss this place and all the people I've come to really love. I feel like I'm leaving a little part of my heart. But, I'm also excited for the new experiences I'll have in Kingwood. It's a biking area and it’s small and only around big, tall houses and there are big trees everywhere and people will have teeth and it will just be different all around.

Alright, so now for my week. I'm gonna try and keep this short cause my emails are always pretty long :p

Tuesday Elder Howard was sick that morning so I stayed with him while Elder Anderson and Elder Kent went to a lesson they had set up. Then Howard and I went tracting all day until we had dinner with a less active family. It was all going well and they were really opening up to us but then we got a call saying that the other Elders had gone out to eat at a place called Cajun Tales, which is a super good but super expensive place. And they didn't have money to pay... and it closed in 15 minutes... So, we closed up our lesson and sped over there to help them out. I went as fast as our Tiwi would let us... haha it all worked out though.

Louisiana country road

Wednesday was a super good day. We didn't have any lessons and our miles are limited so we decided to go bike out in the country roads to try and find people to teach. So we headed out! We biked for miles and miles on dirt roads in the middle of nothing but crawfish fields. It was all foggy and mysterious and it was the real Louisiana experience that's for sure :p I played Mo-Tab on my speaker as we biked and we ran into some super interesting people! Lots of old old Cajun houses in the middle of nowhere. Like houses that have been here longer than the Civil War kinda stuff. Haha it was just a grand old time.

Old house - rotting cow head included!

That afternoon we decided to go bike south of Welsh and try some formers. While we were biking a puppy came up to us, and all it took was one pet. Haha it followed us from house to house knocking doors. It would walk right up to the doors with us and plop down excited to teach the gospel with us! I've never met a nicer dog than this one. Anyways, we were expecting her to follow us for maybe a few houses and then return home. But, she never did! We tried out-running her and we biked a few miles away and we thought we had lost her. But, we were knocking at another house and here she comes from around the house looking all around for us! Covered in mud and water from swimming through crawfish fields to get to us... XD So we took her back to the house we got her at and we asked everyone in that neighborhood if they knew this dog and none of them did. But most of them said it's a common area for people to drop off pets to abandon them because they can't get home in the middle of the country... So we just rode our bikes home and little Kia followed us home the whole way. After running for miles she got super tired though so I stopped and would give her drinks from my water. She followed us about 6 or 7 miles home. Haha So we took care of her for about 2 days and fed her and she lived outside our apartment and our neighbors liked her as well because she was so nice but eventually we had to call the city to come take her because no one was willing to actually take her in and take care of her.

Kia

Friday we had exchanges with our ZL Elder Gill and then we had dinner at the Simiens. I'll miss that family. Their dad loves Shrek and he looks exactly like Shrek and he knows it and it's just great because he lives in Louisiana in a swamp and it's just the perfect meme.

On Saturday we went to do service out in Elton for Sister McClelland. She just had us do yard work and then she made us lunch.

Sunday we got a text from brother Simien saying he needed another speaker. So since I'm leaving, I was delegated to give it. I spoke on joy and peace and how to truly achieve it. People complimented me so I guess it was alright. Then we also taught Young Men’s class. We just answered doctrinal questions they had. That night we got the call saying I'd be going to Kingwood!

Crawfish

Monday wasn't p-day so we went and taught some lessons then I went and said goodbye to some members. Probably saying goodbye to Emma was the hardest... but I’m so so excited for this new area! And I can't wait to meet all the new people and learn to love them all!

Keep being amazing everyone and I'm so thankful for your support and prayers. They mean the world to me.

Love,
Elder Wood