5/21/12

Hey mom,

 Thanks for the email. i can see what matt means about people not being very religious here. there are a lot of athiests, or the environment is there religion. also a ton of them dont believe in organized religion. but they need to be taught anyway so the mission goes on!

thats sweet that spencer got his call to Arazona to be on Indian reservations. Intoducing The Book of Mormon will be a breeze. all he needs to say is that the book is about their ancesters and that it contains promised blessings as they read it and apply the teachings. i havent ran in to too many Native Americans but when I do they seem to be way more interested then everyone else.

So the mission is going pretty good. this week we taught Naomi who has a baptismal date for the 3rd. I am pretty excited for that. She has definately been prepared by the Lord. she is the perfect investigator. we taught her about the plan of salvation and the word of wisdom. she said that for about a month she has stopped drinking coffee so that was good. we had stake conference sunday and it was really good. we had 4 investigators at it so that was great because they had to drive to medford to go to it and i was nervious that they wouldnt want to come. Last stake conference here the stake president challenged the stake to read the entire Book of Mormon before the next conference. now he has challenged the entire stake to now write their testimony in the cover of the Book of Mormon and give it to someone. I think every missionary wanted to jump for joy when he said that. Sunday was super busy. we had stake conference. then taought naomi met a guy through tracting that went to BYU as a nonmember and is now writing a book about Abraham, taught a lady named Dawn and 2 member lessons (ps the member emailed a picture to your yahoo account) so it was a pretty crazy week.

so also this week I was in our second car accident. it wasnt bad we here stopped at a crosswalk and this lady rear ended us. that makes it the second accident in one transfer.
so you know you are serving in a super healthy town when you see blind people out jogging. we were driving down Syskiyou when we saw this blind lady running down the sidewalk with her blind stick. i think that would be pretty dangerious but that wasnt stopping her. she wasnt going too fast but still. anyways i think that is pretty much everything that happened this week. we are at the start of a new transfer so i forgot my planner that shows what i did so thats all i can remember.  but anyways i hope everyone is doing good!