Feb 11, 2013

Hey Mom,

Thanks a ton for the package. It was great. Things have been pretty good here. We had a decent week this week. Troy and his girlfriend are getting baptized next month so hopefully that will go through. Also, we set a date with a girl named Kayla. She has to quit smoking though but she seems to want to quit. In her closing prayer she asked that she would have the urge to sell her cigarettes and hopefully give them a pretty good deal.

We went on a trio exchange with one of our assistants to the President this week which went pretty good. We taught Kevin and his 3 daughters the plan of salvation. They have been taught the lessons before but we are going through them again. I have learned that play dough is a great tool for teaching kids. Anyway they said that they know the Book of Mormon is true and that Joseph Smith was a prophet so they are praying and discussing a date to get baptized or if that is what they want to do.

After our zone training meeting we went on exchanges and I got to be with Elder Moua again for a day.

It's awesome to see the change in people when we teach them. We were teaching Kathy and when we got there she was super mad because her wallet was stolen but by the time we left she was laughing and having a good time. Another lady named Mickie also changed a lot during the lesson.

We tried to go see Will again but found out from his brother that he went to prison. Turns out he was trying to sharpen a machete on the pole of a stop sign. Then he took a chainsaw to a gas station, filled it up, started it, then ran down the road with it full blast while yelling at people. So we won't see him for quite a while.

So they are changing the way they do home teaching here in our stake because it is so low. And it should really help with missionary work. Now EVERYONE will be home taught. It's fun being a missionary at those kinds of meetings because it doesn't really apply to us and afterwards when they have refreshments we always get to take home whats left over.

While at that meeting I called a less active to confirm our appointment we had and he rescheduled. Then the next day (yesterday) we found out he died in a car wreck
earlier that morning. It was pretty nuts.

Anyways we did have a ton of less actives back at church. It was pretty good. But thats about it for this week!