March 21, 2011

Hey Family,

This week has been super great, we were able to accomplish alot... in a sense? To start it off, last Monday we had a really sweet lesson with Megan and we were able to teach her the gospel of Jesus Christ. It was amazing, you can definitely see it in her eyes that she wants to be baptised again. The only bad part is, that we have been unable to meet with Clayton since we meet him. It is kinda frustrating, but with time his heart will soften. They are both doing really well, Megan came to church and was able to bring our other investigator Earlana. That was awesome. Earlana is kinda at a platto at the second, she has progressed so fast in such a short amount of time that she is really having a hard time progressing. She, for some reason, will not keep our commitments of reading and quit smoking. Well I understand the smoking, but to read for 2-3 minutes a day when you are unemployed with out a car it really shouldn't be that hard. She is progressing in a sense as well.  Tuesday we went to South Bend and had district meeting,  it went really well.  We came back and had a lesson at the library with Earlana"s son Brandon. The lesson went well for the 4th time. We have taught him the restoration lesson 4 times now!!! and he does not understand it at all. We have came to the conclusion that he is not accountable. He also has been super wish washy about the whole church thing. He is very easily distracted from all of the other churches and all that stuff. It makes it hard, but its the truth. Wednesday I was on an exchange with Elder Pahl from Pocatello,  he and I ran Mexican backhoes(shovels). Our land lord needed our help, so we rendered our bodies to his service. He had a sewer back up at one of his properties and we fixed it. We dug a huge hole, and got all nasty with poop! It kinda reminded me when our house did that and Josh went swimming!  It was a bad deal because the people that were living in the house didn't know that we were fixing it and every time they flushed we got sprayed. NOT fun!!! In the end it was fun to do some phyciall labor, the land lord said that he had never seen two young men work so hard in his life.. We actually got blisters on our hands... and I liked it. Thursday and Friday, nothing really happened just alot of tracting, with out alot of success. Saturday we did alot of tracting some more, then we had a dinner appointment with some members that grew up in Rexburg and was some how related to the Binghams in Blackfoot, but they did not know how, so that was pretty cool.  They love Idaho and kinda when able are going to move back. Yesterday we went to church and all that stuff and then had to head up to Niles Michigan, Elder Gasser had to preform a baptism interview for a investigator. We stayed the night up there and today we went fishing!!!!!!!!! that is why the letter is so late, once again I am the only one that knows how to fish. I caught a 2 and 1/2 pound Bass. I didn't keep it but I did manage to keep a picture of it. it was really fun.  I hope that you all have a wonderful week. I love you all.

Pictures: The tiny church house here, Jed's Bass he caught while fishing, Jared and Elder Pahl after the sewer swimming experience, and the "Sweet Blister" from running the "Mexican Backhoes."