8/2

Well, I guess that a lot has happened since last week. Congrats Jen on
the baby( I guess that Shaun did all right himself). Happy Birthday
Ry, hope that all is going well with you and your family. Shelly
congrats on the make-out session, and also on moving. Nate and Megan,
hope that all goes well with you and that you are finally able to get
your loan. I hope that what I got for you guys today was OK, and
thanks for the address. Derek, since when did you have a girl to worry
about? I hope that you remember who you are at all times. :-) Jon and
Nat, hope all is well with you guys too. Mom and Dad, thanks for the
packages, I'm sure that Ill get them soon. I appreciate that a lot. I
really feel like I'm missing something, but hope that all will go well
for everyone.
This week has been way busy over here. Yesterday we had a baptism,
where we baptized 2 little girls, whose mother is a member. We had
planned on having about 7 people being baptized, but for one reason or
another, every single one of them besides the girls decided to wait
until the next baptism which is in three weeks. I just hope that I do
not get transferred next week and not get to be here for it, because
we are planning on about 15 people total. I'm really excited about it.
Today we went to the wood carving village, and I was able to get some
more really cool things. At least I think that they are cool.
Other cool stories for this week goes as follows: 1st, we go to one
of our investigators house and in the middle of the lesson, she and a
bunch of other women call some other women on the street over, because
they have big bags full of bras. They put the bags down, and then they
all start to barter over different bras. This was really awkward, but
luckily, God was watching over us, because it started to rain and it
was late enough that we just went home. 2nd we were in our area, and
there is a crazy guy that talks to himself that we see often walking
by. When we passed by, he started to talk to himself about us, and we
heard him tell himself that we are from Germany and that we don't
speak English so he should not talk to us. After we passed him Elder
Bond yelled out "Goodbye Smeagle". It was really funny, and nobody
knew or understood what the heck we were laughing about the rest of
the day. 3rd we had some guys call us over only to find that one of
them was way drunk. As we were talking to them he told us that God was
late for the second coming, and that he was getting tired of waiting
for him. He then went on to tell us that he had lived a perfect life
and that he really wanted to be judged by God as soon as possible. I
thought that that was funny. 4th We started to teach one of our
investigators about the plan of salvation and we were introducing it
when I asked if she had ever thought of where she was before she came
to this earth, why she was here, and where she was going after this
life. She told us something like this, "Yes Ive asked myself that, and
no I have never been able to find the answers, please tell me, I want
to know." It was really cool, and then we were able to teach a really
powerful lesson about those things. She is now one of the people that
we want to be baptized this next baptism. 5th and final, was this
story. We are on the northern boundary of our mission, and our chapel
is the first that you come to when you are coming from the north. For
the last two weeks, we have had 2 guys travel for about 1 1/2 hours
from the north to church. We started to teach them and we came to find
out how they heard about the church. One of them was talking to some
random girl from Australia over face-book, when she decided to bare
her testimony about the church and tell him that it is the only true
church on the Earth and that he should do whatever it takes to go to
it. He decided to follow her up on it and took his friend along. They
now love the church and are starting to get a strong testimony of its
truth. Its been really cool to see how much God has prepared these
people for the gospel.
Well thats about all that has been going on over here. I love you
and hope that all goes well with you this week. Hope to hear from you
next week.
LOVE Ty