Letter #20

Sent:

Mon 7/08/13 11:50 AM

Hi Mom!!! Thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much for the Birthday package!! I absolutely LOVED it!!!! The skirt fits perfect and so do the shirts you sent! I got both yours and Chelsie's package on Saturday and couldn't wait to open them until my birthday yesterday! My birthday was pretty great! It started off with a call from President and Sister Young calling to wish me a Happy Birthday! And it always makes my day to hear from them. They are like my parents away from home and they just make me smile so big :) But I would have to say the best gift I got was when our investigator Jill and her family came to church!!!!!!!!! OH MY GOODNESS!!!! She is seriously so amazing! We had our first lesson with her on Friday and it went so incredibly well! She has a lot of friends who are members in our ward so that's been nice to have fellow shippers for her. I honestly can't tell you how wonderful she is! I just wish you could meet her! We will be meeting with her twice a week and we plan to have her on date for baptism next time we see her!! I am just really excited for her and her family to be apart of this wonderful gospel! We also met this guy named David last Friday. He is from Poland so that was pretty cool. He was asking all sorts of questions and accepted a Book of Mormon and said he would love to know more about our church. He was very surprised when we answered his question about how Mormons are Christians. Haha! Sometimes I just don't understand how people don't think that we as members of the Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints aren't Christian... It says it right there in the name. Ha oh well! So... it's kind of weird being on a mission during holidays. On the 4th of July, they told us to do soft proselyting and we weren't really sure what that meant so we just visited people, no tracting or anything like that. We also had to be in by 7:00 which was weird cause it was still light outside. We visited a less active member that day and Sister Marble has been craving a hot dog the past couple weeks and she said if she didn't have a hot dog on the 4th of July, she would probably cry, cause who doesn't have hot dogs on the 4th! It made me laugh! Anyway, one thing I have to say is that I really miss your cooking, mom. People cook good food here but it's nothing compared to yours :] We also visited another less active couple and the husband reminds me so much of grandpa! He is just the cutest and always gives really good advice about pretty much everything.. mostly life after the mission and getting married and work stuff. We didn't really have much go on last week because we don't really have anybody to teach. We've been tracting A LOT and I think I have come up with a new definition of Grants Pass- NO TRESPASSING! I swear everyone has those signs. It's quite frustrating and we've actually started ignoring them.. but don't worry nothing bad has happened…yet! Hah! We ran into a guy that had like 6 guns just sitting on his couch and he had one on his hip and he wanted us to hold them... I’m pretty sure that's not allowed but he insisted. We're okay though. I want to thank you again for the awesome package you sent me and for all of you love and support! It means the world to me! I love you so much! Have a fantastic week!!!!

Love,

Sister Hall :)