Letter #33

Sent:  October 07, 2013

Hi mom!

How are you doing? I got all of the pictures you sent!! Thank you so so so SO much!!!!!! It is so good to see everyone! Romans hair is soooooooo long! He looks so different! It's crazy how grown up he looks! I hope I will be able to get all the pictures on my flash drive, we don't have much time today.

So, this week was another incredible week! We were able to see so many people! Tuesday was kind of awful but it's only because something amazing was going to happen.. that's what we kept telling ourselves and then guess what?? It did! That night we got a call from our bishop and he said that he went over to one of the families that we have been trying to teach, and they told him that they are ready to start making commitments.. hopefully meaning baptism! They are the family that President Young wanted us to go and see a couple of months ago but they were always busy, so it's super exciting that they are now ready to make those changes in their life. Then that same night, we found a new family to teach!!!!! We also visited with Charley again this week and we made some real progress with him!! He had a baptismal date for June but it never happened and it's because he has a really hard time committing to anything. It took him 16 years to purpose to his wife... hopefully it won't take that long for him to commit to be baptized. Yesterday we went and saw our investigators Cindy and Helder. They are hilarious!! They bicker like no other and he was on pain meds plus he was drinking coffee so he was higher than a kite. He rambled on and on about nonsense and when we tried to talk about the gospel he would say, we are talking about Jesus.. don't you know? It was a really scattered lesson but we will be going back this week and hopefully he will be off his meds and coffee. Yesterday we also met with our other new investigator Leonard. He is so prepared. We taught him the first lesson and it went really really well. When we read the promise in Moroni, he said, " well, I was going to give you this book back but I guess I've got to read it now, don't I? It was awesome! We won't see him next week cause he's going out of town but I can't wait to see him the following. We met with Michael again and he got custody of his 7 year old daughter last week. We aren't sure if this is a good thing or not. He has a lot of Word of Wisdom problems so we are trying really hard with him to help him. This week we also went to Central Point for a New Missionary Training Conference! I always love going to any kind of conference cause President and Sister Young are there! Right before we started we got a call from one of our investigators so we went out in the hall. While I was talking to her, Sister Collins went and stood by the outside door and when I got off the phone she said... I just saw your boyfriend! I guess he was at the church giving something to another Elder. Hah! He was right there and I didn't even know it. Anyways, General Conference was amazing, wasn't it!!!!!!!! There were so many incredible talks! On Sunday we went over to Sister Dicksons house and we had 2 non-members come! It was great! And there are a lot of other wonderful things that happened this week but I am out of time so I will tell you next week!! I love you so much mom! Thank you again for all of the pictures!! You are the best!!! Tell everyone I said Hi!

Love,

Lyndsie