Another Great Week

Mom and Dad-
Wow thanks for that super long email I love reading all about what is going on back home. That is probably one of the coolest things ever that Andy is now making grills for MMA fighters. Is that just a small little side thing or is he going to make that part of his practice? Its sounds like you guys had a fun week. Do you just go to Church up at the Overton ward?
This week was another great week. We reached all of the goals that we set for the last two weeks so that’s pretty cool. The appointments with those kids that we met didn’t end up working out. We went and knocked on the door, and an older lady answered and said, were Christians, and I don’t think my daughter understood what you were giving her. So yeah, that was pretty lame, but we did have some other really good appointments that did go through. We met with a man named Farencox on Saturday (probably the coolest first name ever) and we had a great lesson on the Restoration with him. He is a really neat man, who hasn’t affiliated himself with any church because he does not want to be deceived. He says that he just reads the bible and relies on the spirit for all of his knowledge. Its pretty interesting, because he has so many of the same beliefs as us, because he hasn’t been tainted with all these other crazy doctrines from other churches. So we have high hopes for him. Reed is our other investigator who is doing really well. Were going to set a baptismal date with him tomorrow for May 9th.
Friday was probably the best day this week. We met a less-active lady from our Ward named Nikki, who was baptized a couple years back. Well, Nikki is from Thailand and although she is a member now, she still goes to the Buddhist temple every week and eats lunch with the Monks there. So she ended up inviting us to the Buddhist temple to eat Thai-food with these monks who just came from Thailand last year whos names were Su-Tom and Su-Chet. It was so cool to eat with them and to see their culture and what they were all about. We had a Thai Book of Mormon that we were going to give to the Monks, but it turns out that they already had one. They have heard about the whole Restoration from previous missionaries. They told us that we could come back every week and eat lunch with them in their temple so we are pretty excited about that. The food was the best food that I have had in a long time. Su-Tom actually invited us out to Thailand with him when we get off our missions, but im guessing that might be a little too expensive.
K, so I found this awesome Sermon by Joeseph Smith called the King Follet Sermon. If you guys have not read it, type it in on google and read it! It is the most incredible discourse ever! Joseph Smith Smith uses the bible to prove that God was once a man like one of us and that we can become as he is. Seriously, you both need to read it, consider it a Homework assignment haha. I really want to talk to you about it next week in emails, or maybe even when I call home in about 3 weeks Ive had some really interesting studies lately. Im reading the Book of Mormon for the most part in the Mornings, and Now ive started to read the Doctrine and Covenents at night when were done with everything. I forgot how cool that Book is. Its all just such a great testimony builder that Joseph Smith is a true Prophet.
After im done emailing, The Hensleys from our ward are taking us to Destin to go fishing off the Jetties. I guess the fishing out here is amazing. Last time they went they caught 12 Red Fish in 3 hours that each weighed about 40 pounds, so im really excited to go. Ill take lots of pictures for you.Ill make suere to send some home this week Sorry I don’t have as much to write about as you guys did, I had a good week, I just cant really remember all the specifics. We did a lot of tracting. I should start writing down all of the funny little tracting stories that happen every day in my planner so that I can tell you. Anyways, im gonna go now. I love you both so much. Thank you for everything. I love you Mom, I love you Dad!
Love, Josh