April 12,2010

Hello Family,
So this week was a little bit crazy. kinda boring at the same time. Tuesday we went on splits and i was able to go with bro Chowhan! He is the most enthusiastic, excited guy i have ever met. He was so fun to talk to. He actually lived in Smithfield for like a year or two, kinda by the auction place. And he is a power-lifter, so i got to talk all about dad. Hah he was pretty impressed needless to say. It was way fun though he kept driving past everyones houses that we were supposed to be seeing because he would start telling me a story about something on his mission. Pretty dang funny. He went on his mission to Ft Lauderdale FL when he was 25 and he was benching 350 his whole mission. hah i thought that was sweet. So we had a good time there.
Wednesday we had Zone conference, which was pretty sweet. We talked a lot about the atonement, so i learned a few new things, then talked numbers for the rest of it. Elder Little gave his departing testimony. It was so funny! Everyone before him was like "I cant believe im up here right now, im in denial i think." Then he gets up and puts his arms up and says "I have been waiting for this moment for a long long time!" And said a bunch of funny things. So he will be going home on Cinco de Mayo. So you guys will have to go to his homecoming talk or something, i love that kid, hes so dang funny.
so right after that we went over to Sis. Wysockis...I dont think i ever told you about her....Well we were getting mail one day and this lady stops us and starts talking to us and to make the story short she has been a member her whole life and has been inactive for 30 years, so she invited us over. We went over and she said she doesnt believe in God, shes more into the scientific view of things. Which is probably the first time i have met someone here in Michigan that doesnt believe in God. But we got to talking and i asked if we could share some things that we really believe and she accepted and so we taught her the Restoration, Then she invited us over for dinner. We had dinner with her and turns out she had invited her son-in-law over, because of the whole single sister rule. But after the meal she asked if we wanted to share something, so i popped in the Finding Happiness dvd, which just talks about how there seems to be a design in nature and how there must be a designer. and after i just bore my testimony and she said "That was really peaceful" But I dont think she knew what that was....Anyways her son-in-law started asking us questions about the church and we talked about some of the history of the church and basically taught the Restoration again. But his questions were way cool. So hopfully there is some good potential there, he said he might take his mothers BoM and read it if he gets a chance. So that was really cool.
Then on Thursday we ran into a lady that has been inactive for a while. It was really funny because her son answered the door. He was probably in his 40s and he opened the door and he had this crazy, glazed-over look in his eye, and he looked like he was about to shoot laser beams out of his eyes, then i glanced down and in his hand was a knife! So before i could even say anything to him about who we were and who we were looking for, he just said "Come on in..." So i was like oh , I'm about to get stabbed." I stepped inside and walked past him real quick, just tense and ready to pounce on him if that arm moved. Luckily he turned out to be a nice guy, but he just about got administered to by the laying on of hands! if you know what i mean! He was watching his mother that has been a member forever and has worked in the temple for a long time and stuff, she has just been sick and wasnt sure where church was, so that was sweet.
Then on Friday we were able to see Valorie Palmer, who is now our top investigator. It was sweet we went over like 25 minutes late(we called dont worry) but it was sweet because she used that time to study some more so when we got there she had read what we had asked and even a little bit more. But we decided to teach about prayer. Which was perfect because she started talking about how she has been praying and she wasnt sure if she was doing it right, so we got to clear that up and taught a pretty spiritual lesson on prayer, it was the first time i have actually pulled out PMG and read something from there, and it worked really well, i just read about what some of the blessings of prayer was and bore testimony. It was way sweet. She had even written down some of her questions that she had come up with, and i was giving her mad props for doing that and she was like " Ya i have to write everything down becuase ill forget if i dont" And as she was saying that she was showing a little bit of her notebook, and i noticed that she had been basically re-writing every verse she read! She had 3 whole pages of notes about the things she had read in one chapter. I was blown away! I said" Wait a minute hold up! most missionaries dont even do that!" Hahah it was really sweet. So she is basically golden, so that was sweet.
Then on Sat and Sun, we had District conference(like Stake conference....but a lot smaller)
That was kinda boring, PJ just got up and gave the exact same talk he gave in the last 3 zone conferences. haha it was all good though. But afterwards we went on Trade-offs! So im in Bear Lake right now With Elder Darley, he is a stud. We are having a three day vacation. I mean Trade-off.....Its sweet though. So funny story. Last night we went down by the beach to shoot some hoops for a bit, and i took off my watch and my wallet and set it down by the hoop. Well you can probably guess, i left it there. And this morning, well actually like noon, i realized what i had done and we cruised back down there, i was just about getting ready to punch a whole in the window, But good news It was still there! Woot! The only thing they stole was my temple Recommend. And i dont even need that out here, so its all good! No not really im just messin. I was so scared though. Rediculous.
So thats basically my week. We have had some good stuff happen, so we have been pretty blessed here. Im getting to know the area more and starting to teach some sweet lessons. So things are good. The church is true, The book is blue, have a great week.
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