April 28, 2015

Hey Family,

That's awesome that Mom got to speak at a homecoming! I heard she did a great job! It is going to be so weird coming home; It's going to be so hard to leave Albuquerque, but at the same time it will be happy to come home and see you guys! I am loving the new area, and my comp and I are getting along so well! I am still in Albuquerque but I'm on the west side, so our stake is the Albuquerque West Stake! The stakes here are WAY bigger than the stakes in Utah!

I got to go on exchanges this week in the Ventana ward, with an elder named Elder Trump! We got to go see the Wynders, it was pretty awesome! Being a zone leader we get to go on exchanges every week so it's pretty fun! The Zone Leader life is super busy, but that's a good thing! I love coming in dead tired at the end of every day, it feels good!

So this week we found 3 new investigators! The first two are father and son, James is the father and Jacob is the son. We knocked on their door one time and Jacob answered and we talked to him about the Book of Mormon and stuff and we asked him if we could come by sometime and share more of our message with him and he said yes! So then we went by again and this time James came to the door and talked with us; So we basically talked with him about the same stuff and told him that we had met Jacob and he said we could come back, and he said that now wasn't a good time but we could come by at another time. So we have an appointment with him this week and hopefully it goes well! Our other new investigator is named Miguel! He had ordered a Bible from lds.org to give to his friend so we went over there to deliver the Bible to him, and we talked with him and asked him who he was giving it to and stuff, and he asked us "So where do you get the name Elders?" And we told him that we get it from the Bible and that it's a title for teacher or missionary, and then he asked a couple more questions so we ended up teaching him about the whole priesthood organization and the offices and stuff! Then we asked him if he wanted to learn more and he said yes! So we went back again and he had a ton of questions and we taught him about the church and about a ton of our beliefs and he loved it! So we set another appointment for this week and we are going to go back and teach him again. We also have an investigator on baptism date named Rihanna haha! Her date is for the 23 of May and we taught her a couple times this week. We are hoping to be able to get her brother baptized on the same day so we have been working with him to set a baptism date for the same day!

Anyways, I am loving the mish! It just gets better and better! Keep doing what's right and stay safe! I love you all so much! Talk to you next week!

Love Elder Summerhays