Letter #30

Hi Mom!!!!!!!! I love you! This week nothing too exciting happened but it was a good week! We found a couple new investigators while tracting and that is always happy! One of them is Helder! He said he grew up Catholic but hasn't really participated. At first he didn't seem interested at all. He started telling us that he just wants to know that he can be forgiven of the mistakes he's made and we were able to talk to him right there in his front yard about baptism and how he can be cleansed from his sins and made clean again through Christ's Atonement. It was a really neat experience and we have a return appointment to meet with him and his wife this week! Also, last night we had about 20 minutes before we needed to be home and it was getting dark out and we weren't really sure what to do. We usually go tracting when we don't know what to do but it was late and school has started so we don't want to knock on doors and wake up little kids who have school the next day. We decided to pray and ask where we needed to be. As soon as we finished the prayer a lady who we met about 3 months ago popped into my mind. We have tried her several times but she is never home but we went to her house anyway and amazingly she was home and invited us in! She told us that she was wondering when we were going to come back. She said she was worried that we had forgotten about her or that we changed our route. That made me feel bad cause we had been going by but she just was never home. Anyways, she said that she has been reading the pamphlets we left with her and she's read them over 4 or 5 times now. She just had surgery and told us to come back anytime and she would love to know more! We are super stoked! Especially because her son is living with her and he seems like he may be a little interested too! Oh!! So, we have been vistiting an in active older couple in our ward that I absolutely love! They haven't come to church in a really long time but they know they need to cause they tell us that they do they just say that they're lazy. Plus the husband has Parkinsons and it's hard for him to get around or sit for too long. BUT the wife came to church yesterday!!!!!!! We couldn't contain our excitement! It was so good to see her there and about 3 other less active people that we've been teaching came too! It was great! We saw Jill and her boys again this week, and we talked to her more about being baptized! She is so excited and wants to be baptized so bad along with her boys. The youngest Nicholas, is actually really mad at the moment because he doesn't like the fact that he can't be baptized cause he's only 6 and 1/2. But we asked Jill if she had prayed about a baptismal date and she said sometime in October!!! I really hope that I will be here for it! Transfers are this next Monday so I'm a bit anxious to know what happens. I've been in Grants Pass 4 months now and I really love it here! I really hope and pray that I will be able to stay at least one more transfer. Anyway, that's what 's been going on with me this week. Nothing too new. How are you and the rest of the family? Will you send me pictures of everyone? You can just send them through e-mail and I can print them off at wal-mart for cheap. Thanks for keeping in contact with Janiece and letting me know how Trevor is doing. I really really appreciate it :) Oh one more thing!!!!!! We get to go to the temple this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and I am just realI cannot even wait! It's been way too long since i've been (7 months?) ly excited to be going! We also have exchanges this week so that should be a fun learning experience. I hope you are doing great mom! I love you so so much!

Love,

Sister Lyndsie Hall :)

If you happen to send anything in the mail, be sure to send it to the mission office cause transfers are this coming monday.