October 24, 2011

Hey mom,

things are going pretty well this week it was an interesting and pretty fun week. This week we decided to go on a different approach other than Tracting. We have been doing alot of service this week. over all we contributed about 11 hours of our physical labor. it was great. On Monday we went golfing and it was great, its was funny because we all suck at golf so it was alot of fun to just hit the ball. After gold we had dinner with the Taylor family, and it was great we shared a message about the mormon.org campaign, it was good, brother Taylor was a bit stubborn to make a profile and we explained what to put on it that would make him stand out to why he was a mormon. he really couldn't think of anything to put on it all he has delt with is cars and motorcycles, he has had over 100 cars and over 50 motorcycles in his life. We continued to talk about that for a little while and after i explained if i was browsing mormon.org his profile would be the one that stood out to me because i can relate to. i think that it made him really appreciate it alot more. after we talked about motorcycles for a while, and he took us out to his garage to show us his toys it was good for that old man to relate to someone so young. Tuesday we got everything all situated for our district service project, it was alot of fun. it rained most of the week and it kinda sucked because we lost the car on Wednesday. but After we got things all sorted out we had a member pick us up to take us around some less actives. we went to see this old guy. oh man he is awesome. it has a rough situation his wife is very ill and is also anti of the church, but he still wants to come to church but cant make it because of his wife. he is sweet. he reminds me of uncle Jessy from the dukes of hazard its super cool. we then went with a different member to go and contact a referral from the bishop. Lindsey and Harry, are awesome. Harry is such a stud totally motorcycle buff and i get along with his very well. His daughter Lindsey is awesome, she is so prepared for the gospel. they have family members in Utah and Lindsey spent the summer out there with them and was strongly introduced to the church. When we arrived at their home Lindsey started to cry and said" I have been waiting for you to come for 5 months". it really touched my heart because we didn't get the referral until just a couple weeks before. they came to church yesterday and everything and are on tract to be baptised in November. On Wednesday we had district meeting, i gave a training and i thought it went really well. This district has a real problem with setting goals, so i trained on that i feel like it was effective. after District meeting we went to strides and stacked alot of hay and cleaned their hay loft and got it ready for the service project. while i was there Debbie, (owner) asked if i would draw up and design a horse shoe pit so i did that and made a materials list. while the ffa students were going to be making it the next day. we had a lesson with Jessica, it was a rough lesson she wasn't there mentally and the spirit struggled to be there due to her, we are feeling that she is getting baptised for the wrong reasons and is just doing it for the boy in Washington. so elder tatton and i have alot to do to help her grow a sincerer desire for her self and not for some one else. Thursday i was on exchanges with the Avon elders they are really awesome and we got work done. On Friday we had the FFA service project it was awesome, too bad no one i knew was there. ffa is such a great program and it was great to be the two best there, a Representative of Jesus Christ, and to help the FFA, some of my greatest joys in life thus far. it was alot of fun all the missionaries were group leaders and so we didn't actually get to do any of the work. we helped a family move and it was absolutely disgusting how gross their stuff was garbage everywhere but we still saddled up and helped anyways even tho it was gross. Church was great we gave talked in sacrament meeting, that's the 2nd one i have gave in this ward...its probably time for me to get transferred. they went well i have overcame my fear of talking in front of crowds and it was really enjoyable i winged it the whole time. as elder tatton was saying his talk i realized i studied the the wrong topic so i called and audible and ran with plan b(there was no plan b). all worked out. this week was great i hope that all is going well back home. we are both feeling alot better and are doing well. i love you all!!