May 18, 2009 This transfers off to an awesome start!

Hey Mom and Dad-

It sounds like you guys had a fun time out there with Tracey and Dan. Is their new place pretty nice? Those sea doos sound like they are pretty fun, and it seems like every time you go to the lake, the water is perfect! I Bet Dad really liked that Star Trek movie, everyone out here says that it is really good, and I know how Dad loves Star Trek. I didn’t get the pictures of the Horses that you sent, I only got the one of Parker. That’s awesome that you were able to see them again. Does Brett really come home this Thursday? That is really weird! I bet Dan and Tracey couldn’t stop talking about it. That is going to be so much fun.

We had a pretty good week this week. It started to get really hot, but then the last couple of days have been a little bit cooler so we will see how the next week goes. We have been finding some real quality people lately. We are just starting to teach this lady named Cindy who has been looking for a church to go to. For the last month or two she has been settling into a Presbyterian Church, but she said she is still searching. We gave her a Book of Mormon, and shes been reading it, and we had a really good lesson with her this past Friday. We also had another really good lesson with that young part member family I told you about on the Phone, the Murphy’s. Kay Murphy is the non member and she took Friday lesson really well. She has been coming to church as well, so we are excited for her.

We realized last night that we were one short on our goal that we set for new investigators for the week, so we picked out a street on the map and went tracting. The first door that we knocked on, this lady named Maria came to the door, and told us to come in. She said that she had been looking around for the right church for her, and that she was tired of getting lied to by so many different pastures and ministers. She was praying that she would get receive some extra help in her life, and so she got really excited when we came to the door. We told her all about the Book of Mormon, and she was very interested and wanted us to stay and read with her. The spirit was so strong, it was really neat. She said she felt really good about it, so we are going back to teach her again on Sunday. We had a couple other lessons this week that went really well, so we were happy about how this week went.

The Spanish Elders got transferred this wee, so the second ward elders are moving in to the apartment next door, which means we get a two story apartment all to ourselves for the next six weeks! Its going to be so nice. Its really fun having four missionaries in an apartment, but its really easy to loose focus also, so itll be a nice change.

I don’t have too much more to tell you about this week. It was just a really great week. This transfer is off to an awesome start. We have seen some definite miracles this week. Investigators that we haven’t talked to in months have randomely just popped up and are interested again, random people calling members out of the blue and wanting to take the discussions, and just all sorts of really cool things. Im pretty excited to be here for another five weeks. Well, I hope you guys have a great week I love you Mom, I love you Dad! Sorry I didn’t have to much to write about this week, ill do better next week, I promise. I love you Everyone!!

Love, Josh