Letter #32 Sent: Mon 9/30/13 12:54 PM

Hi Mom! Thank you so so much for sending pictures!! I love all of them! I wish I would have remembered my flash drive though so I could print them out. Did you get any of the ones that I sent last week?? There were quite a few of them :) Anyways, this week was pretty good. We met with a French man named Jacques! He has an awesome accent and looks like he just came from Paris! Haha! His wife is a less active member so we are going to start teaching them both the missionary discussions this next week! Things have been a bit slow lately, BUT guess what?!?!?!?!?!? WE HAD 7 INVESTIGATORS AT CHURCH YESTERDAY AND 7 LESS ACTIVES!!!!!!!!! It was a real miracle!! It seems like the hardest thing to do, is to get people to come to church. It was so great though to see all of them there! My testimony keeps growing each day about all aspects of the gospel but this week it was especially strengthened about prayer and fasting. Our ward started doing a special fast every 5th Sunday for missionary work and it has been amazing to see the results of it! I don't think I can even explain to you how full my heart was at church yesterday (let alone the whole chapel) and still is today. Everyday I learn something new that helps me to know the reason I am here on the Lord's errand. There are so many tender mercies each and every day that make me feel so blessed to be a missionary. It is also really neat to see and be apart of the hastening of His work. Grants Pass used to be a 1 district zone and now because of all the missionaries that have been coming out, we are now a 3 district zone. All the wards now have 2 sets of missionaries except for 1or 2 of them. It's just incredible! OH! And how did you like the Relief Society Broadcast? Wasn't it so good? I loved every minute of it and Jill came so that made it even better!! We went over to Sister Savage's house last night for dinner, she's the one that called you.. She is also really good friends with Jill and she said that when she was talking to her after the broadcast, somebody came up to her and asked when her baptism date was and she said sometime in October but that she was just waiting to hear from her mom. Jill also told us that she wants to have lunch with the two of us this week sometime and hopefully she has thought of a date to be baptized!!!!!!!!!!! I know i've said it a million and one times but I just love that family! They really are just so great!! :) We visited also with Fern and we invited her to be baptized, she said that she was already baptized when she was a baby and we explained to her about the priesthood but we think she may be getting dementia cause she repeats herself over and over so we're not quite sure she has the mental capacity to make that decision but we will see what happens. Everything is going really great. Steve is still not drinking, he's been sober for 35 days now!! Ron texted us yesterday and this is what he said....." I want to breathe with you Heavenly Father. (Meditation, Breathing; Hot Breath, Isometrics (resistance), and squeezing of the eyes, electric energy of the God Breath... Light. Inside is the light. In your Spirit, Live the most Highest & much love ;-)".... If we didn't know better and if that wasn't how he normally talked we probably would have been a bit confused and creeped out but that honestly is how he talks. That is why it is sometimes hard to meet with him because it's hard to understand what he is saying. He had an accident awhile ago and it seems like he is paralyzed on one side of his body, kind of. Something also went wrong in his brain and he is Native American so he says a lot of words we have no idea the meaning. It's actually quite fun trying to decipher what he says and i'm getting quite good at it! Hahaha!

Well that's about it for this week. Oh! One more thing! Guess what else we get to do tonight?? One of our ward missionaries signed up on the dinner calendar and she told us that we are cooking the dinner tonight!! I am super excited! We never really have time to cook much and we never get a good breakfast cause we just don't have time, so she said that she bought all the stuff for a breakfast meal and told us that we can make it!!!! That is something that I do miss, is cooking and baking. Well I hope you have an awesome week! Send me pictures of the family if you can! I love you so so so SOOOOOOOOOOOOO much!

Love,

Lyndsie :)