February 17, 2015

Hello Family,

It sounds like your week was really good! Congrats to Sam for winning Mario Kart, luckily it's not a battle for second anymore because I'm gone!;) I miss playing ping pong with you guys too, I'm excited to get back and put on a clinic!! I got the Valentines package and I loved it!! Those swig cookies can't be beat! And I hung up the picture of Pook and Puppy Boo on the wall! Thanks to all of you for the notes and the package, it made my day! That's awesome what Dad said that you guys are studying D&C 84, that's such a good section! I can testify that D&C 84:85 is absolutely true! That if you are studying daily and constantly treasuring up what you learn and living what you learn, that when you do need that knowledge it will be given to you in the very moment! It's so amazing how the Spirit works through us, through our diligence and faith! It's also amazing to see scriptures come to pass in our lives! The scriptures are so true, and they apply to our lives so well it's unreal! Anyways, this week was good, we were able to set a baptism date with Rayna for April 11! We were super pumped about that, she said she is having a little trouble believing in some parts of the resurrection but we helped her understand it and she said yes to baptism! We also got a new investigator named Rudd. He is probably in his 30's and he is an ex-marine just like Avram! He knows the bible really well and some of the stuff we taught him about modern prophets and the Book of Mormon he didn't fully agree with but we are going to help him understand it, and he said he would read the Book of Mormon and pray about it, and we also have another appointment with him next week so that's good! It's getting a lot warmer so we have been going to a park that's in our area and walking around and talking to people at the park, and it's been pretty awesome! We're also teaching an 8 year old boy whose parents want him to take the discussions in order to decide whether or not he wants to be baptized! It's kinda weird to teach someone that young because you have to teach really simply haha! But yeah that's basically what happened this week! Haha one lady while we were tracting answered the door and said "We're not here today..." Hahaha we didn't even know how to respond so we just started talking about the Book of Mormon, and she slowly just shut the door! It was pretty hilarious! But yeah that was pretty much our week! To answer Dad's question, the District Leading is going awesome, I love it! The elders in the district are keeping my commitments which is good! My area has to have the highest key indicators every week, in order to be an example to the rest of the district so we have to be killing it, but I like to kill it so it's awesome! Anyways I love all of you guys and I hope you all have a great week! Talk to you later!
Love, Elder Summerhays