Email July 14th

Week 5 - One Month Down

I sent a letter home this week reflecting on my month mark, you should
get it soon. So, we bike aaa llllooottt now, and we work out arms and
chest every morning, so pretty much I'm gonna be freaking swoll when I
get home. It'll be great. One time while we were biking a red Toyota
Tundra pulled up to the corner, and I thought: DADDY!! But no...It
was kinda sad, but I'll get to see you guys soon enough! :)

We got two new investigators this week. S-- is one of them. He was being
taught before but wasn't keeping commitments so the old elders stopped
teaching him, but he texted the phone and said he missed us. So we are
teaching him again; let's hope he realized the spirit was missing and wants
it back!!

Before I talk about our other new investigator I want to
talk about a really cool experience I had this week. We were heading
home on Tuesday night when we got a call to go give a blessing to one of Elder
Rummler’s old investigators who got baptized. It was
actually for their mom who wasn't a member. Their father had just
passed away (her husband), and it was really sudden and she asked for
a blessing. Elder Rummler did it in Portuguese because they're
Hispanic. Then as we were leaving we asked if there was anything else
we could do, and K---, one of the daughters asked for a blessing, and
she asked me to give it. I was totally not prepared for that!!! But,
I just let the spirit guide me, and afterward I felt so good! I
felt... Almost bigger than I was before... It was so cool. I have no
idea what I said, but I think it helped.

A few more things before we talk about V-----. We tracked into a family that
speaks only Portuguese! So elder Rummler finally got to use his Portuguese!
Yay for visa waiters!

I gave a talk on Sunday, and everybody complimented
me on it! The bishop even said: "I can see why the prophet changed
the age of missionaries to 18 just because of that talk." So I guess
I did a good job!! It was on the first vision, so it's pretty much my
favorite topic!!

Okay, now, V----. We got V---- as a referral
from the sisters in our district, and we called him a few times and
never heard from him, then finally we went and visited him, he
couldn't meet then but we set up a return appointment. We ended up
having to cancel because of dinner I think, I don't remember.

Anyway, we'd been trying to call him again and again to reschedule,
and still, no answer, so we went over Friday to his apartment, and set
up an appointment for Saturday. We taught him the restoration and
this week’s training thing was that the trainee was supposed to lead in
baptismal invites... So, yikes. We got to the end of the lesson, and
I invited him to be baptized, and HE SAID YES!!!! His baptism is
scheduled for August 17th, and I feel so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can
you believe it?!?

Anyway, super stoked about that, and it was a super
fun Pday on the national mall, and at the air and space museum!

I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!

I LOVE YOU ALL SO SO MUCH!!!