Road trip

Happy Holidays everyone:)

This week was crazy and one with had hardly any sleep. It seems like we have been constantly driving. I think I might be getting butt blisters haha.

At the start of the week it was nice. I did an exchange with Elder Adams and it was a lot of fun. We worked hard, but it was so cold and I forgot to pack a sweater. We were out knocking on doors and we met a pretty nice lady who works for Apple and wanted us to come back. Then we met this guy who started off by telling us that it was too cold to go out, and that I needed to go inside because I didn't have a jacket. We talked with him and broke down his walls a bit so he stepped outside and said, let me shut the door so I don't let all of the hot air out! I was like come on let us in, but sadly he didn't. We did teach him a lesson and that was a lot of fun.

After District meeting, Elder Tonga and I went back to Coushatta and worked hard. The sad thing about this week was that we only had 2 1/2 days to work in our area, because we traveled so much. Lorie and Lauren are doing well, they both have been sick but are still making some progress. We just need to get her to quit smoking and come to church regularly, then she will be baptized, which I hope that I will be here for.

Then we started teaching a member's nephew and he came to church this week and he is progressing pretty well. Then on Saturday I woke up at 3:30 in the morning to do some stuff and get ready because we had to meet at the Church at 5:30 to go to the Dallas temple. That was such an amazing experience to go back to the temple! Going 16 months with out it made it super special to me and I was so excited. The Drive was 4 hours and you don't realize how much you use a phone on a road trip. 8 hours in the car was pretty mind blowing but it was all worth it to go to the temple!

On Sunday we went to church, did some proselyting, and had dinner with a member. We then drove up to Shreveport to spend the night because we had to drive to Monroe the next morning for mission conference. It was great to see all of my mission buddies but the 2 hour drive one way was boring again. Elder Costa came and spoke to us and he was amazing. Elder Costa is a very loving guy and taught us on a personal level and I learned a lot from him. He was a super funny guy as well because English is his 2nd language. Then we had to drive 2 hours back to Shreveport and spent the night. It has been a very spiritual week and also a week were we spent a lot of miles on the road! Anyways I miss you all so much, and hope that you have a great week! If you want you can email me;) Love you!!

Elder Corbett

Changing lives

Happy Holidays Y'all!

This week was another good one. We struggled a bit in finding some new people to teach but we went hard with the ones that we do have to teach! We have been trying to help them keep their commitments every time, so that they can feel the spirit in there lives more frequently.

At the start of the week we had a lesson with Lorie and she started to debate us about the word of wisdom. She was trying to prove her point that If we can drink coke and all of these drinks that are bad for us then why can't we drink coffee and tea. I taught her that it is a principle and isn't limited to those drinks, but that it is between us and God, whether we should drink those drinks. Also I brought it back to whether the book of Mormon was true or not deems that the Word of Wisdom is necessary. We left that night a little uncertain of what was going to happen.

Then on Friday we had interviews with our mission president. We were told to get there at 2:30 but didn't end up being interviewed until 5, so we pretty much wasted a day because we had a pretty long drive back to our area afterwards.

Then on Saturday we met with Lorie again, she apologized for the debate and we had a really neat experience with her! She bore her testimony to us that she knows what we teach is true because she has seen such a change in her life. She talked about how since we have been teaching her, that she has been able to deal with things a lot better and feels calmer. Of course we told her, that she was feeling the spirit in her life. She is working hard towards her baptism date of December 30th! So pray for her!

After that we went with a member and some investigators to Shreveport and went to this Nativity/Christmas event the Church was putting on. It was a lot of fun to see some other missionaries but the best part of it all was that Sister Fields took us out for a steak dinner!!! You know that is my favorite thing ever and I was in heaven! It was amazing and I loved it!! She is the best.

Then on Sunday we went up to Shreveport to help with another event and that was a lot of fun. I hope everyone has a great week!

Love Elder Corbett