5/28/12

Hey Mom!

Thanks for the email everything is going pretty good just a ton of stress. Even though its p-day we had a lesson with Naomi. It was only suppose to be her but when we got there it was her parents, her brother who was in town and his girlfriend. we were suppose to go over the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the commandments. we started talking and she said that she wasnt ready to be baptized by the 3rd because her schedule was too crazy and she didnt like the stress. we started the lesson and we changed it to just the Gospel of Jesus Christ because they only wanted us to be there for a half hour. but because there were so many people and because they asked a lot of questions we were able to teach the commandments through their questions. after the lesson we told her that she was set and all she needs to do now is have her interview and then she will be ready for sunday. so she is back on date. she is having her interview on wednesday and hopefully getting baptized on sunday. i really hope that it goes through. it is a ton of stress. but her family is behind her with it. the parents will be there for the baptism and everything. and they liked everything that we were talking about. she has been basically our main focus right now. we started teaching a lady named sarah who is really nice. she has a lot of struggles but we are working with her and she is doing pretty good. we are trying to help her quit smoking. so other highlights of this week. we were tracting in a moble home park and we ran into a catholic lady that does some of the reading at church services. we talked with her for a while and then she blessed us with holy water. that was a neat experience. in that same trailer park we ran into a german guy named christian who worked in a coal mine in germany when he was younger, then had to serve in the german army. he moved to hawaii lived there for 15 years and now is here because his sons go to school here. we have met with him 3 times this week and he came to church. he talks a ton so its a little hard to teach him but he is nice.

I think it is interesting how when we meet with most people and teach them about what we believe they have some similar belief or they think that it makes complete sense. i went on exchanges in Jacksonville and we taught a family the plan of salvation. we had a really good lesson and at the end they said that they believe it is true. it was a really awesome experience to have. so that is pretty much everything exciting that happened this week. i hope to hear from you next week!

Ps Jo I am pretty sure you get this email and there is this lady here that needs some dirt from a piece of property in midway. i guess her family use to own it she says she only needs a little bit (a small container or so) so if you could get that for her that would be great. i will get the address for you when she tells us it.