Slow But Good

This week, we had a pretty fun experience. We were able to teach early morning seminary on Friday on D&C sections 4 & 5. It went really well and it was so cool for me to see the dedication of the students. I wish I would have taken more advantage of seminary and seeing these 30 kids wake up at 5 in the morning to partake of the gospel.

Elder Thomas and I are doing tons of tracting and trying to find people to teach. We are making some progress with Julian and Emily is moving along great, as always, but we want to be teaching so bad! Luckily our ward is great and are also looking for missionary opportunities.

There isn’t much else to say. Just please pray for Elder Thomas and myself and for the people out here. Remember, missions are a hard thing. Letters make them better. Thanks for everything. I love you all very much and think about you constantly! Have a splendored week.

Two for One

I guess I have two weeks to cover since the library was closed for Labor Day last week and since a lot has happened lately, I’ll just jump right into it.

Elder Berthelson has gone home to his family. This makes me a little bit sad and a lot jealous but there is a silver lining to this dark cloud. His name is Elder Thomas. He’s my new companion (also from West Jordan but he never knew Elder Berthelson). So far, we are getting along great and having tons of fun together. He has been out one transfer more than me so we are both fairly green but I am learning a lot from him.

Before Elder Berthelson left, he woke me up one night to tell me he heard water running upstairs. I was annoyed at first, until I realized that same water was starting to run down the wall of our living room. We tried to wake our landlords to no avail so we called 911. Some police officers and firemen showed up and ripped our ceiling down. It was a huge mess and a pain for quite a few days but they have finally started to fix it.

I don’t know if I have said much or anything about our French investigators but they are moving out of our area soon. I had mixed emotions about it. They are such golden people and I want the missionaries to still have contact with them, but on the other hand, we never really “taught” them because of the language barrier. Hopefully there will be a French speaker in their new ward.

Yesterday we went with our friend Brother Bailey to deliver invitations to all the less-actives in the ward for the upcoming Stake Conference. We were able to meet a lady that we have been trying to get a hold of for a long time named Tatiana. She was way nice and said she’d have us over for dinner sometime. Hopefully, we can get her back to church and possibly teach her husband.

Julian, our nine-year old investigator, hasn’t been able to meet with us lately. We had an appointment set up for Friday but that morning his mom went to the hospital. She was having some chest pains and ended up having a miscarriage. It was very sad. Prayers for their family would sure be appreciated!

I love to hear from all of you and find out what is new and how you are doing. I love all of you very much and know that I have such a huge and awesome circle of support. Thanks for the love and thanks for the letters!