Nov. 2,2009

SUP! So its monday of course. And im doing gooood! I forgot everything i was going to say....hmmm. well i guess ill start at the beginning of the week....stupid brain think!....well i better pull out my planner(missionaries brain)okay its blank....now what. HAh just messing. So we had our half mission tour with Elder Paul B Pieper.It was so cool. He knows everyhting! He would ask us a question and he would get like 10 answers back, but it was always something a lot deeper that he was looking for. It was cool the way he spoke about things. Kinda going back to the root of the doctrines and things like that. He basically taught us how to teach better, i think thats what they all do. He was a really neat guy though. He just radiated pure awesomeness. We got chastised tho, because a lot of us showed up like 5 minutes before we started.....oops...and he told us he needed about 10-15 minutes to interview all of us while he sat on the stand. Crazy general authority magical powers or something. I forgot to take something to write, so i had to fill up my planner. haha but i dont have any specific things to tell you other than it was amazing and i learned a lot. Like were supposed to commit people to be baptized on the first lesson....i always thought it would be the second or third. im a nooooob. Then on thursday we went to Farwell, becuase i dont think much work has ever been done over there. And we found this big outside concert theater thing. called Mountain rock. It was sweet! They had posters of def leppard and dio and all those old school bands that played there. Who woulda known in tiny little Farwell. Elder A got us stuck in a ditch. He scares me when he drives. So i took over the keys. haha, He got out of the car to start diggin us out. I got in the drivers seat and rocked the car out and started driving aways. hehe, im a thousan driver. Then we went to Clare and stopped by a house that i had doorknocked into with E Simpson and finally they werent busy so they invited us in! We taught them the restoration and a lot about prophets and the Apostasy and missionary work. It was so hard to teach them tho. I asked them something about prophets and they just went off on some tangent for like 20 minutes and then i asked them another question and they did it again... They would answer and then just keep talking. We got onto the topic of how catholics put pics of the Saints as reminders and they talked about soccer and AAHHHH! Totally off the subject. So i dont think they got the whole priesthood authority being restored part....so we will have to review with them on tuesday. They have two young kids and they said they dont get very many intelligent conversations,...obviously haha. They were really cool though. Im excited to teach them. So we got two more investigators! WOOT! Now president wont slap us this week at interviews! Yesterday Bro Ford took us to a funeral so we could have some dinner. haha hes a good guy. He is probably going to be sending a picture or two to dads email. Anyways we almost had to give the prayers at the funeral because the sister missionaries hadnt showed up yet. tardy tardy tardy, but they came screaming around the corner at the last moment, so we got out of it, woot! They want us to go to mount pleasant tomorrow and do some work on campus with them. This mission has this ginormous Book of Mormon that some Elders made, and so missionaries take that around the campuses and walk around with it and it attracts all kinda of attention, so we might do that maybe. So thats all that happened this week. So i hope all is well. Good luck with the Wedding! Thats so cool! im excited for ya'll. Mostly Ryan of course, love you guys and we will talk to you next week!