Hi,So here i am in the wonderful town of Kalkaska.....Its alright i guess.. Hah everythings pale in comparison to Muskegon, but thats alright i was expecting that. So The branch up here is pretty cool.There are some sweet members. The church building is an old architect building. So its the first time i havent been in a legit church building. Its kinda funny, because people are talking to the bishop in sacrament meeting while he is giving announcements and people are throwing jokes out and stuff while he is talking. Hah i laughed at that. The branch is crazy focused on missionary work. Get this. We taught 27 lessons last week. Im pretty sure thats the most in the mission. Crazy i tell you. But that was pretty sweet. We go on splits twice a week, We have some awesome investigators, one of them looks like Jeff Foxworthy! when he is doing his spotlight on deer! That was so cool! He will be getting baptized pretty soon i think. He said he wants to take us out fishing too! Golden i tell you! bunch of dang rednecks! Then we have a gator who claims he is a dreamer. He believes that God directs him through his dreams. He had a dream about nauvoo so this summer he is going there. He's kind of a nut. I realize that god can speak to us through dreams, he is just a little too much. I actually think he might be snorting the coke, hah so we are going to teach him the word of wisdom again and ask if he has any problems with it. This guy has been taught for 3 years and he says he is just waiting for God to tell him its time to join. We went over gaining a testimony of the BoM too and all that. he says he has a testimony of the church and the book and the prophet and everything, but he is just putting it off. Dang sign-seekers! Hah. I might end up throwing him in the water. Oh and this last meeting we had with him we had our ward mission leader come....He kept whispering in my ear as we were teaching him...That wasn't cool, he kept telling me to look upcertain scriptures and teach this and that, but it didnt have anything to do with what we were talking about. His intentions were good. But whispering like that is a good way to offend an investigator so it made me pretty angry, just thought i would vent for a second, but besides that things are good. My comp is wierd. ill just leave it at that. The water here is garbage. You cant even drink it becuase it has a ton or iron and its nasty. The shower sucks too and the water stinks. so thats stupid. But good news! Page got baptitzed. So Let me tell you a story.....
Me and Elder Little one day got a phone call from a man that needed some help with a well, he had heard we were always looking for service. So we go see him of course. Turns out some of our old investigators that we dropped had told this guy to call us up to help him out. so that was neat. So we found Page in this dump of a house out in the middle of no where and knocked on the door, we explained how we were talked about religion a bit with him and his friend and we ended up setting a "Bible Study" class with him, at this class we taught him the restoration and he became our top gator, he was very interested in it. His friend Sherman came along for company, he was also training to be a priest at one point in his life so he knew his scriptures. so they sat there while we taught and Pages wife left becuase she didnt want anything to do with it. i know this is a horribly structured story, ive been out of school for two years give me a break. anyways we continued meeting with him and helping him out with his well and other crap he needed done. Well my third transfer there he dissapeared, we could never find him he was always gone and it continued like that for about 5 weeks, finally my last week in Harrison we were finally able to spot him. Turns out he had moved into harrison, in a house instead of the broken down trailer that he was living in. so now he is only a mile away from where we live. Well i left the area and the missionaries kept teaching him and i called him last week. He has been going to church every week and he is getting baptized! I wasnt able to make it to the baptism, but i called him sunday afternoon and his wife answered. She sounded really happy and she told me she went to church and now she wants to be baptized! Wootwoot, then she passed the phone off to Page and he talked to me for like an hour. He said thank you so much for knocking on my door, and he kept saying that a bunch. He talked about how he cant wait to go to the temple and get the priesthood and watch conference. He said this again " Ive always wanted to get baptized but i wanted to make sure it was done right, because i believe you only should get baptized once. I dont want to be one of those weekend swimmers." HAH! that made me soo happy! He said he feels really good and he is happy with his decision and then he said that Sherman(his friend) also came to church and he wants to get baptized "Quite the trend you started!" is what he said,SSSOOOOO cool! That made my mission hearing that! When i go down to zone confernce i am going to go see him for sure. I was running around the apartment when he was talking to me. That brought me true joy, and i finally realized the joys of missionary work. I was reading about Alma and the sons of Mosiah and how they converted thousands and the"exceedingly great joy" it brought them. They must have been floating in the clouds man! But that was the highlight of the week, of my mission really. Hopefully i will be able to go to the temple with him next year! So i thought i would share that with you guys. That made me really happy and made me a little more focused so i can have those experiences more. The church is true baby! Im loving the work outhere. Its getting warmer all the time and maybe i can go jet ski sometime this summer! Look for missionary oppotunities! I don't want to hear about being in utah so eveyone is mormon neither. Hah you guys are awesome i hope you are all happy and doing well. Ill talk to you next week. Loves! -- \m/ ~ Elder Larsen ~ \m/
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