Letter #16

Well, this week has been pretty fun. We had our park day this week on Thursday, and so, of course, it was the rainiest day of the week. We didn't bring our coats with us for the day, because the weather looked pretty nice, but it actually rained on us really hard. It was not the normal Washington rain either, because usually that's not too bad, but it lasts forever. This was hard rain. We both got soaked, and we were tracting the whole day, because no one would make appointments with us. But something cool is that we had a dinner appointment with a family that night, and we didn't know where they lived, because they had just moved, and we were just out tracting, and we were going to do this one street, and then Elder Burt said we should do the next street instead, and so we did, and we knocked right into this family that we had the dinner appointment with that night, so we knew right where they lived. That was pretty cool. And then Sister Dickjose ordered a pizza, and fed us that for lunch, so that was pretty fun too.

There was also a pretty cool blessing that happened this week. There is a sister in the ward that gives us milk and cereal every week, and we were at her place picking it up, and she asked us for a blessing. She had a lot of health problems that I don't really know about, but she's always talking about going to doctor appointments. Anyway, she asked for a blessing of healing, and so we gave her one, and right as I was about to end the blessing, I stopped and said something about her family relationships improving, and it kinda came out of no where, but afterwards, she was like, "How did you know I was having problems with my family?" And so that was a pretty cool experience.

We also hit up the family history center this last week. That was pretty fun. Our mission president wants us to start using that more with finding investigators, because it's a really cool resource that the church has that is interesting for all sorts of people. So we checked that out, and it's pretty fun to look at, especially when everything you are looking at has already been done for you, and you are just competing with your companion to see who has the oldest recorded ancestor. So it was more like family history play than family history work. But it's still really cool. It made me wish we could go out to the temple more often.

Well, that's about all that's going on here right now. We have 2 investigators that were supposed to get baptized on Saturday, but that didn't happen for various reasons, and so we have been trying to get contact with them again, but that's been really hard, and we've been working on teaching Sonja's kid so she can be baptized soon. So things are going pretty swell right now. I miss you all! Love you.