Hey Yal!

Hi Momma!

 

Oh my goodness I am so happy to hear about Vietta surprising you at church! She said your expression was PRICELESS!! Kodak moment? :D Aryan and his mom came too! Yes! Ah I am so happy to hear that! Thats great! Things out here are great! The ward is awesome! The area is ripe! The work is here for us to grab! We had an awesome planning session on Thursday and covered alot so we will work hard this week and reach our goals! Its the new transfer and no one left, we are all still here, we think Elder Dame will be going next transfer and it might just stay us 3, until Elder Vaughn leaves for Brazil. We are expecting so many people at church this coming Sunday! I think about 7 is what it was, not all investigators but less acitves too! Elder Johnson and I had a great lesson with this family the Ledbetters, the wife was gone but the husband was home alone, so we came in and chatted for a few then shared Lesson One, when I was quoting the 1st vision the Spirit just hit him! He served a mission but has become very less active, he is in the navy and working hard so he sleeps on weekends. It was so incredible to see! Sadly though he didn't go to church the next day, but his wife did! It was great to see her there! We have a new family who moved in the ward, the husband is a member the wife isn't, they called Bishop and said they wanted to meet with the missionaries, she is golden! I haven't met her really yet, Elder Vaughn and Elder Dame taught her Lesson One and thats it. But she is so ready from what they say. Catherine is still working on quitting smoking, we threw away her coffee machine for her, so she has been free from that as far as we know, she went through alot of lengthy court cases during her divorce and she was really messed up by her ex husband, she finally won and got her daughter but wont let go of those ill feeling towards her ex and the judicial system for how they treated her, which is understandable but she is not able to progress because of it! She is moving forward though, little by little! We met this guy Tod on Saturday we were tracting and he came out and talked to us, he was raised Penecostal and was taught to hate mormons, but he wants to know what we actually believe in. We gave him a Book of Mormon, and I am gonna try to set an appointment for Wed. the bad part is, he is going to join the army and go to bootcamp in about two weeks, so he said when he gets back he will want to come to church and learn more. Great kid, very kind! We also got another investigator, her name Emma Walke, this was Johnson and I again, we went there for our Thursday night splits with Ward Missionaries, Victor the husband, is an inactive member, Emma is not, I guess a while ago she was so close to being baptized but something happened, it was two missionaries in particular, she loved them! I think that she really likes us now too! She is a sweet lady, she is a smoker and we'll have to work with her on that, but so much potential. The beach was fun last week, my kite didn't fly for nothing. :( haha but it was a good day! I have a picture I will send! I am really bad about writing, Pday is the only day I have to write, we are really busy the rest of the time, I love it! Being busy is great!  But I will finish my letter I already kinda started and get it to ya! Sorry I am slow! Well things are great here! Glad to hear  you are well! Thank you so much for the cookies! They were delicious! I really don't need anything at all though mom, so no need to send me more junk food k? We did have a blast with those jelly beans! I wrote about it in the letter! Thank you very very much! I love you! Have a great week!