Week 39

Hey Everybody! It's ya boy Elder McKeon here!

 Another crazy week in Sunny Side! This last week was extremely busy but not busy with things progressing the work. 

Tuesday, I had a doctors appointment down in Sugar Land and that took all afternoon and then we had to go straight to the church and do our English class. My health is good! Thankful that I feel good! 

On Wednesday, we had Zone conference and that was amazing. President is the man! We discussed The Book of Mormon and repentance. It was very inspiring! I need it right now! The area is really rough. The other companionships have a lot more Spanish people in their area. We have to find and hunt and go insane trying to find people. It's hard to find cuz every persdon has gates with bolt locks on it so you can't just walk up and knock the doors. President gave us permission to teach English speakers and so we can speak to and teach everyone we find! That was a bright spot for me! I'll talk to everybody! My companion doesn't feel the same as me, so we are having a moment, but we'll work it out with the help of our Heavenly Father! 

The only bad part of that day was that it took us 2 hours to get home from conference due to construction so we again had to go straight to our English class and get that ready. So there goes our day - straight to Heaven, right!

Then on Thursday we had a bike emergency!!! Elder Simpson forgot to secure his bike on the bike rack Thursday morning!! Getting off the freeway, going 65 mph, I look in the rear view mirror and just see his bike go flying off the bike rack and bouncing every where. It just gets shot into the field next to the freeway. Maybe one of the funniest things I have ever seen!!!! hahahaha! We were at the bike shop forever. 

So that was our week just a bunch of craziness. The highlight of the week was we were at a members house for dinner (yes, dinner!!!! They are feeding us sometimes) and while I was praying her little girl (who is the cutest little girl ever) goes "Guys wake up! It's time to eat!" It was the best thing! Love little kids!! 

The church is true!!

I love you all!

Have a great week!

Elder McKeon

#SunnySidePride

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My Zone singing!

Zone Conference- I'm on the right 2nd one in on the top! 

Some cool pictures of the Texas sky! Love clouds hahaha!

I went all Iron Chef America for lunch one day haha! Chili bowl!

goofy pics from Zone conference -Elder Lozano

-Elder Brumm

Elder Simpson's tire

I got these sweet transformer stickers so it's on the back of my name tag! Optimus Prime! 

Week 38

Hey Everybody!

Another week here in the Sunny Side! Man is this place interesting! All the time we just randomly see these people on horses. They are just going down the main street and flowing with traffic. It's pretty awesome. 

This week we found 2 new investigators named Jorge and Blanca and they are friends of one of our members. They are super awesome! It is very tough her to fins Spanish families. The city os only 2% Spanish. 

We had a very fun Ward activity for Father's day. So that was very good to go and meet the new ward members. There is only one Spanish Ward for the entire Stake. Our ward boundaries are the entire Stake, like at home.  So all the members are spread out very far but they are strong members. Oh, we also teach English classes to people that want to learn. Last week we taught about getting a haircut. That's what the lesson was on. Crazy right! We all had to bring in a picture of us with our different hair. When I showed my hair before the mission all the students were like that's not you. It was super funny! They loved the beard! 

I talked about my future a little bit with my mission president. I talked about my Patriarchal blessing cuz there were words I didn't understand and he helped me study it.  I did an entire week of Personal study on blessings. I have been praying and am so thankful that the Lord hears our prayers. We need to give the effort and he will always help us! 

Have a good week!

I love you all

Elder McKeon

#SunnySidePride

#SunnySidePride 

First day of church in the Manvel ward because we had Stake Conference last week

When you run out of clean knives, you use a large knife to spread butter!

Week 37

What up what up Party people!

Well first week in the Sunny side and let me tell you I love it! It is super super barrio but so great! 

The area is very hard because there are not many Hispanics that live in the area. So at times it is hard to find people to teach but we have a lot of cool people set up to teach this week. The members are super strong, so we see a lot of members. The Bishop of the ward is awesome! Super funny guy! I am excited to here! 

We live outside of our Zone. We have to drive our car to the bus station and then take the bus to our area. Then we ride our bikes! They don't really have apartments in our area for us to live in. 

We live 40 miles round trip away from the Stake Center also. That's where our zone does P-day activities so it is rare if we get out there. We are playing clue the board game this afternoon.  The Sisters live right across the hall and then Elder Thompson and his companion live right down the hall. Yes, THE Elder Thompson, my trainer.

Riding my bike through the streets of Sunny Side is great cuz everyone just looks at us like why are these 2 kids here. I played street ball with a bunch of little kids so that was super fun. It's going to be a challenge to work this area. I'm up for it!! 

Nothing else new to update you all this week. So sorry it is another short email. I will have more next week to share with you all! 

I love you all!!!

Elder McKeon

super awesome having sister missionaries live across the hall from you!

a little fathers day shout out 

Week 36

What is up everyone!!! 

Well after a short 7 months in the same area I am being transferred. Ya me voy! I never thought this day would come but it has. I am going to an area called Sunny side and I am super excited for this new experience! My new companion's name is Elder Simpson. I don't know much about him, just that he goes home very soon. Sad to be leaving this area, but ready to start the next adventure of the mission. Leidy Splenda (my soccer mom van) does not come with me. I will say my parting words to her today, but I am going to a car area that bikes a lot. I like the bike, makes talking to people so much easier. Super pumped for a new area and we get a super nice apartment too. I guess the area is pretty ghetto, so lots of humble people to share the glad message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ with. 

This last week was good and bad. 

Tuesday we got a call from our zone leaders asking if we could go help a lady move some things around and we said, of course. Well, we get there and we weren't just moving things around, we were moving her out of her apartment and she was not packed at all! So that was an interesting afternoon. We were there from 3 to 9:30pm and than back again on Wednesday from 7 to 10 in the morning. It was super annoying because we had to cancel all of our appointments for the afternoon because she had to be out by Wednesday morning at 11 or something like that. So we were moving things and getting stuff going. She was grateful for us to come and help, but man was that stressful.

I went on exchanges with the zone leaders this week so that was fun. I was with Elder Jeronimo. He and I are brothers in the mission because our "dad" is Elder Thompson (dad means trainer) so that was a lot of fun being with him. He is from Mexico and is was funny because the language stuff. I was helping him learn the rules of Spanish cuz he speaks it but doesn't know a lot of the rules. And he helped me with my Spanish Spanish and I helped him with the rules. We had a great day doing service on the prairie, basically we did yard work!

It also rained quite a bit this week and so for most of the days I was soaking wet. Biking in the rain is the most fun thing I have ever done. hahaha.
I don't know if you can pick up some sarcasm there but ya we were wet. The worst part of it all was that it was still hot while raining, so ya, that is super gross! Sweat plus rain! Yum!

Also big congratulations to my cousin Abby on getting married! That is super cool! I appreciate the invite and I really wanted to be there. President said I could go if a member took me, but none of the members were willing to drive to Utah. ;) But congratulations! 

All the pictures are from members of the ward! Awesome Members and I am going to miss them! 

The church is true! I love my time here as a missionary! 

Love you all!

Elder McKeon

 Elder Jeronimo and I doing service

Selfies with Freddy! Made the three biggest guys squish in the back!