Email June 4 2012

I wish I could go with you guys! We are going to have to see if we can find something to look at Venus with.

This week was quite the amazing week!! Tuesday went by pretty slow not too much happened at all. We went out to an older couples house and gave them blessings because they were going to be going on a long trip so that was good.

Wednesday we went down to R for a greenie meeting. I was in a tri-panionship with Elder C and Elder R again. We went to Ensign Book and I bought 2 journals; one for just my daily writing. The other is one that I’m going to have other missionaries sign throughout my mission. And we went out to lunch then did some studies because we didn’t have too much time to go to any of our areas. It was a pretty fun day and I was happy to be with some of the friends I have out here.

Thursday was definitely the best day of the week and most miraculous. We had an appointment with our investigator who we set the date with for October 13 and he says he knows the Book of Mormon is true and we just had a great talk about the Book of Mormon. After that we had an appointment with the lady that came to church with her 2 daughters last week. We found out she actually has 5 kids living at home from the ages of 11 - 18. We sat down and taught all of them except the 18 year old because he was having a bad day because he found out he wouldn’t be able to graduate. But we had a really powerful lesson with the other 4 and set baptismal dates for July 14! The mom was such an amazing help in that one. She brought the spirit really well. After that we went out to the V’s who are a part member family that we did a family home evening lesson with last week and this time we officially started teaching 2 of their kids and also the dad said he would listen and take the lessons which is a great improvement over last week! We set a date with both of the kids for July 28. It was just such a great day! We got 7 new investigators and 6 more baptismal dates! That’s more than I’ve had in a week my entire mission.

Friday-Saturday not a ton happened. It was soo soo hot here. We tried tracting and had absolutely no success. Knocking on doors in 100 degree weather is just sooo much fun.

Sunday evening we had an appointment with a family that is friends with a family in the ward. When we went they just had the attitude of just share your message but we aren’t really interested. By the end of us talking about the restoration and the Book of Mormon they were so much different. The mom said she really wanted to know if this was true and she would read and she really wants to come to church. It was so fantastic and the Spirit was sooooo strong! We got another 5 investigators with that making 12 in the entire week! That is going to be a hard one to beat in a week. I’ve only got a year to beat it haha. It was just soo amazing. Sadly we only had D B at church... we don’t know where everyone else was so we will need to stress the importance of church.

So one last thing. the mission has now started a thing where we are to get on Mormon.org 2 times a week for an hour each and just start using that in our finding and in our teaching and we are encouraged to have people make accounts on mormon.org so I’m going to ask ALLL of you minus Lyndsi because she is a little young but.. Michelle, Mom, Dad, Brian, Ellen, Becky, Joey, Grandma, and Grandpa and anyone else. Make profiles and tell EVERYONE about it. Any nonmember you run into tell them to check out your profile and others it is such a great source. I’m already on there so you can look mine up and see it! I love you all tons and miss you like crazy! Hope you have a great time at Disney World!

To Mom:  It really amazes me how tuned to the Spirit you are. I wish I was that tuned into the spirit and I’m working on it. our lesson in Gospel Principles yesterday was about the Holy Ghost and I shared about how you always seem to know when I’m having a hard time or am sick or something and how great you are at listening to the Holy Ghost. I’m glad everything worked out so great for the baptisms! I have a feeling that I will only be in B for another 2 weeks and that my training will be interrupted again... I’m not sure though and I honestly wouldn’t mind leaving B... it’s getting hot and I feel like I’ve met EVERYBODY here and know who is interested and who isn’t but I’ll definitely be here until I’m supposed to leave. The only thing that would upset me is just that me and my companion get along so well and just have a good time and are getting a lot of work done. But yeah its good!