To Dad: I loved your mormon.org profile. It was fantastic! Now we just need the others to make some ;) haha I’ve been hearing a lot about the fires up in Utah. There is one in Heriman and that is where my trainer Elder T is from. He will be going home July 31 to a bunch of burnt land. Sounds like your little vacation up north went pretty well! I definitely miss being with the entire family! I’m looking forward to spending some time with you all when I get home! Yeah those pictures of me with the mustache and beard were pretty funny. It’s actually Nutella hahah We were bored one morning and I agree that I looked like the guy from Italian job! That’s what we said after we took them too.
This week was a pretty great week with a lot of appointments that actually went through! We finally met with the V family. The family with the 9 and 10 year old we are teaching and we are now teaching the dad too. They have been out of town. For the first little bit we just played around with the kids and built legos with them and played catch then we taught a lesson about prophets. At the end the 10 year old said the prayer and he prayed that he could be turned into a dragon for a day. hahahah oh the prayers of the children. We are meeting with them again this upcoming week and are going to set up a day we can come help them with yard work. We found that giving service is a great way to get families to see that we are normal people and DO wear normal clothes sometimes haha. We had one day that we did different services all day so we only wore our pros for studies and then wore it to one teaching appointment then the rest of the day we were in service clothes. We helped a guy who just moved into his moms house start to fix up his house and we were cleaning a ton of branches and just junk from the backyard and we found like 5 black widows. Blah. Oh we also have roaches in our apartment and it is sooo nasty! So our best service so far was on Friday night. But I’m going to go back a couple of days. We met with the L family out in H on Wednesday and it was about to turn into another lesson with just the mom and the 11 year old girl J. Well we told the mom that we were going to be talking about our purpose here on earth and the plan of salvation and she convinced 2 of her other kids to come listen. We had a great little lesson then showed some videos from mormon.org and the spirit was way strong and you could just tell that from the time we were there they were happier. We even had the 14 year old son laughing a bit and loosening up. We then set up a day to come help with the yard. We went back Friday night after it wasn’t hot anymore and mowed their lawn and picked up branches and then just hung out with them. We really had a good time and they saw that we are normal people too and even the 13 year old daughter who had stopped the lessons was out with us and I talked to her a bit and we had her laughing and they really warmed up to us a lot. Now the best part is.... Sister L and her 3 daughters were ALL at church!! From what they said they really liked it! So hopefully we can see how things are going when we see them on Wednesday! They are such a great family it’s crazy! We of course tracted more this week but people just don’t answer their doors!! It’s frustrating. No funny stories with that at all. Our 2 week missionary went home today about an hour ago because he had a flag ceremony to do and it was his last one before he turns 18 and can’t do it anymore. It’s bitter sweet having him gone. This next week we already have a few good appointments set that I’m really excited for. One of them is an appointment with a less active guy and his wife has already said she wants to be baptized! So we are going to see them this next weekend and see how that will go! We are also working with a few members to start teaching members of their family or friends. We have a plan we are going to see how well it works for this next week and one day (probably Saturday) we are going to visit a member for 30-45 min. tract for 30 minutes, visit a member 30-45 min. tract for 30 minutes and make it an entire day of trying to find someone to teach! Hopefully it goes well! Pray for us! I’m getting more and more excited for my birthday! Only 11 more days of being a teenager! I don’t feel old enough to be 20 yet... haha oh well. I hope you guys have a pleasant week! I love you tons and miss you alllll the time!
To Mom: I can relate to the driving. I have driven somewhere around 6400 miles in the last 5 months. Yeah having the 2 week missionary was pretty fun but I’m glad it’s over haha we were ready for it to be just us two again and being able to focus better on what we are going to do and everything. I miss our home wards testimony meetings.
That’s weird that sometimes you don’t get my emails for awhile... You’re right it’s probably because there are soo many people on. I hope you guys are having a good week and that everything is okay I had a feeling that I needed to pray for you guys either Friday or Saturday night. I don’t remember which but I just hope everything’s good! Love you!!
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