Past 2 weeks :)

To start off the storms were awesome!!! Nothing too crazy happened year although tornadoes seem to hit parts of the zone, all is well and nothing was damaged severely. We did have a sweet lightning storm! :) We sat out on our back porch and watched it. I love storms.

 I'm so grateful for my mission. It has taught me soooo much. Ask any missionary it's impossible to describe how much it impacts or how helpful a mission is. I believe the reason why it's impact and helpful is because it's literally two years of consecration which allows the Lord to teach and mold me to become His disciple. It's not a vacation, it's not a prison of rules. It's a training ground of discipleship, it's the Lord's vineyard, it's His work. I am grateful for everyday of my mission

 Elder Meza and I were walking in a trailer park about 8:35 at night.  Anyways to describe the scene imagine a street and on both sides of the streets are beat up trailers, now it's very dark with the exception of the two or three street lamps in the whole trailer park. We're walking down the street and there is a good size dog it appeared to be a ST. Bernard sized with a black lab and pit. I mean big dog, it's pure black with a silver chain around its neck. As we walk closer we whistle at it and say hey buddy! Apparently this dog is just MEAN. It was no Chihuahua.It growled and it's hair stood up with its ears back. Elder Meza and I paused and took severe caution. The dog slowly walked toward us and we slowly started walking back. Two guys saw the dog and whistled at it and it walked away. We told them thanks for the help and continued walking. At this point that same dog was on the left side of the street and we are on the opposite side. the dog was doing some business on the trailer and looked over at us. We were parallel from the dog. The dog once again growled at us but this time BOOKED at us Barking and Snarling, I mean the works!! Elder Meza and recently had gotten into the habit of carrying our Spanish book of Mormons the ones we hand out to people, in our hands. Elder Meza was the dog's target Elder Meza flung his book of Mormon with pamphlets at it and missed!! The dog stopped for a second and booked it even faster at Elder Meza, It was maybe a foot or less away from him when I wound up my arm and baseball pitch my BOM at the dog... It nailed it dead it in the face. POWWW!! The dog yiped!! and Booked it!!! People came out and wondered what had happened due to the noise. They saw me pick up my BOM and the pamphlets. Elder Meza and I were pumped with adrenaline. Haha :) It's was awesome!!! The BOM had tooth marks and saliva on it. I'm keeping it to show you when I come home!

That's the power of the BOM :)