Elder Nate Berg

Hey mom and everyone else. the mision is going great. we are starting
to pick up some new investigators that are coming out of the weirdest
places. but i will probably get to that later. i will try and just
give you all a few highlights of what happened this week. the
beginning of this week started up fairly slow but really started to
get crazy when wednesday rolled around. on tuesday night my companion
and i got a call from the zone leaders saying that president and
sister young were going to be come down and sit in a few lessons with
missionaries and wanted to know if we had one for wednesday night.
well we did but the investigator that we were going to teach is very
interesting and it was not an ideal lesson you would want president
at. but he decided to come down and sit in anyways. so president drove
from eugene the 4 hours it takes to get down to ashland to teach a
investigator with us. lets just say that day was very nerve wrecking.
and the lession itself was pretty interesting because everyone seemed
to try and speak at the same time. luckily he didnt give us any hard
times afterwards. the next day (thursday) we went to the church to
play basketball with the investigator that we taught the night before
with president. when he got there he had a friend with him that had
gone through a lot of rough spots in his life and decided to learn
more about the church. so while we played basketball he asked us a ton
of questions regarding the church. after a ton of questions and
answers he decided to come to chuch and also take the missionary
lessions. that was a incredible experience especially because of all
the things that he shared with us about his life and his situation.

now i said that i was going to describe my companion in my last
letter. well now is probably the best time because it somewhat ties in
to the next story. he is a really nice guy but is very socially
awkward about 75% of the time. when he was growing up his mom made him
believe that he was celiac and lactose intolerent so he was never
allowed to eat it or anything else because his mom was a health nut.
when he got on the mission a companion he had helped him realize that
he really didnt have these problems at all that his mom was making him
believe all this stuff because she says its super unhealthy. well now
that he can eat bread and dairy he has gained 30 pounds. its weird to
me because he seems to think he is really skinny but he is a little
chubby now. last night we went to dinner and there were 3 non members
sitting accross the table and right in front of them he asked the
members if there are people they have that we can teach and and bring
into the church. lets just say that went really bad. so much so that
the wife passed him a note telling him to get off the subject right
away. so... yeah... anyways we have to get heading so i better close
up. btw mom i didnt get those pants from missionary mall yet but the
clothes that i wore tarping held up.