Picture tells the letter

Hello it's me again. Good to hear from you as usual even though you couldn't think of much to say. Don't worry I understand how that feels more than anyone. I think most of my letter will be told in pictures (I actually have some this week). I am very exited to hear about where Sister Fisher is going. I kind of wish I didn't guess Australia now that I know so many other people guessed it. That would be a cool place to go though.

So this week actually went by pretty fast compared to recent weeks. However I can't really remember allot of what happened this week. A lot of knocking happened, and a lot of stopping by less active member's homes who were not in. All in all a lot of walking. And some pretty bad weather for walking as well. Steph came to church again and this time brought Martin and they both enjoyed it. Richard loves church! Martin thought it was long but he's right so I can't argue. Steph seems to have more concerns now but they're easy ones to resolve and she shows that she trusts us by asking right away. That just shows that she's actually investigating and not just going with it. We gave them a baptismal date but it's not very solid. She said she wants to pray about it. We'll see how committed they all are when we next see them. They still have some word of wisdom problems but we'll see how we can help. Elder Brown and I want to try to get the ward to have more firesides and activities for members to invite friends to. We'll see how that goes.

I saw this picture in a members house and I thought one of the apostles looked like Christian Bale. Also I thought this ad in a train was unintentionally funny...

Just a cool trailer I saw last week and one of the posh houses in our area. There are a lot of rich people here.

We were knocking on a less active members door and this bird just flew up and landed in front of us. Elder Brown touched it but it flew away when he tried to pet it.

Best Guess

Thank you for the pictures of your trip to the black hills. All the pictures came through. I love the pictures you sent me. It looks like you had lots of fun. And leaned lots. I'd like to see Mt. Rushmore one day. I've heard that it doesn't look as big in real life as it does in pictures. I've heard of the Crazy Horse one as well. I wonder why it's taking so long for them to finish. Didn't the head get complete a long time ago?

I like the Thairs family. Brother Thairs is the ward mission leader and he's a huge movie fan. He's always quoting movies. He's pretty funny and so are his kids. They love the missionaries.

As for the guess on where Britt is going on her mission, I think Sister Fisher will go to Australia. Elder Brown thinks she will go to Germany.

As for the question that you asked about visiting any historical sights yet. We haven't really visited any historical sites over here. There are of coarse many old churches around that we come across but we haven't really looked for any historical sites to visit on a p-day.

Things here are going pretty good. We've been working with the people I told you about last week that Elder Brown found on exchange. They are really nice people. Martin and Steph are a married couple and Richard is a friend of theirs who has come every time we visited. He is 66 years old and the others i think are in their 40s. Mandy is another friend of theirs and she's been there for a couple teaches. Steph seems to be really accepting it well but Martin is a bit skeptical. It's not that he doesn't believe it or doesn't want to believe it; he just has lots of questions. That's not a bad thing; he has lots of really good questions and we keep telling him that it's good to have questions but we have to remind him that we can't teach him everything at once. Richard and Steph came to church and they both really enjoyed it. Martin didn't want to come because he didn't think he had any nice enough cloths. But Steph is trying to talk him into coming and they are feeding us this week. They're super nice!

My companion is from Kalispell Montana. His closest temple is the Cardston Temple.

So here are some pictures. The first one is of our district (with the zone leaders) and the second one is an older picture of the district before Elder Moulin left. I think he should be home now!

Finding the lost sheep

Hello everyone!

So this week has been another slow week but it's been a better week. We found some nice people to teach. Last Monday we were looking for a former investigator and we knocked on their door to find out that they don't live there any more. The person that answered seemed interested though. He was busy but he told us to come back later that night and we did and shared a lesson with him. His name is Adam. He's a nice guy who is recently married, has a little boy, and is training to be a baptist preacher. He had a lot of questions but we have another appointment with him later today and we'll teach the plan of salvation which may answer most of his questions. We got some other investigators that Elder Brown met while we were on a companion exchange. We had another visit with them on Saturday and they seemed really nice. They all read at least something from the Book of Mormon when we saw them and we have two appointments with them next week.

We also knocked on a inactive members house on Saturday. His name is Richard. His house was a little hard to find. He's a really nice guy (in his 30s). He invited us in and offered us some orange squash and we got to know him. He said he hasn't been to church in over 14 years and hasn't had much connection with the church except for family members. But he said the church has been on his mind and he has wanted to become fully active by the end of the year. He's even talked about it with his wife (maybe just partner) who  is not a member and she has a Book of Mormon. They are moving to Bracknell so that means they will be closer to the chapel. We'll see if we can do anything to help them with their move but the sisters will have to fellowship him because they cover the Bracknell area.

Well that's all for now. Talk to you next week.

Blue Cheese Icecream

This week was better than last week. Only because we had a few service projects to keep us busy. Street contacting was starting to stress me out. Just because we have been doing too much of it and not seeing much success. But because of the service projects and some dinner appointments we've been doing a lot less contacting this week. 

We have also contacted almost all the people in our potential files now that they are more organised. We have been able to clear up some information on who has moved, who's still interested and who's not. We actually have a few appointments coming up now with some of them as well as some people we have found on the street. 

All this work should have made the week go by a lot faster but this week has been extremely slow. It feels like it's been a long week. In fact, this whole transfer so far has been really slow.  

I really enjoyed conference. There was a lot of good stuff that I think can help me to stay positive. I can't really think of a best talk; I think for me the talks as a whole tied together really well. Over all it motivated me and helped build my confidence. I often feel like the lord is trying to communicate directly to me whenever I listen to conference talks.

Good to hear about the weather you're beginning to enjoy. It's starting to rain again over here but it's not too bad. I love the MTC picture you sent me. [One of mine (mike) that grandma found from 82]. If you find any more of those be sure to send them my way. 

I did get your letter this week. Justin's picture looks funny. Tell him to shave.

I saw the craziest thing the other day. There is a really nice ice-cream store at one of the train stations and one of the flavors they had one day was blue cheese ice-cream. I also saw a banjo ukulele. I wanted it so bad! Too bad it's so expensive.