Dear Everyone who reads this,

This week was mostly superb but first some quotes!

  

   "Jesus loved everyone even REALLY mean people"

                                        -This Sunday's youth speaker

   "Then we will all be in the Celestial Kingdom!....or wherever God puts us..."

                  -A 12 year old young women while explaining why the 10th article of faith is her favorite

   This week Elder Rice and I fried chicken and it was actually really good and super easy, and we had cheese and venison quesadillas most days for lunch (Brother Ehrenzeller gave us a ton of deer meat. We just finished all of it). I also found out what Rocky Mountain Oysters are.... I didn't have any but a ward member was telling me all about them. If you don't know what they are... ummmmm... they're not actually oysters, but if someone offers you some don't eat them. 

    We took Brother Washington our recent convert out to teach some lessons with us, and it was so much fun. We would be driving down the street to the next person and he would say "Wait!  Go down this street. Miss Tennie lives there. I'll see if she will let us teach her!" Then he would get out of the car and go in and talk to them to see if they were interested. We went and taught this man with Brother Washington and taught him about temples and family history and it turns out that he is COUSINS!!! with brother Washington. Brother Washington didn't even know. He said "Wait! Yo daddy - my uncle! That means we is kin!" Eugene, the guy we are teaching, was like "yeah you didn't know we was cousins?" So now Brother Washington is super excited about Genealogy and doing proxy work for the dead so it worked out perfectly. As of this week, we are actually teaching 3 of Brother Washington's cousins and will be teaching 2 or 3 more of his relatives this coming week.

    For these last two week we have had amazing timing with almost all our lessons- clearly not of our own work. It most definitely is the Lord's timing.  We showed up to teach one of our investigators Jeff with in 35 seconds to 5 minutes of him getting home. Multiple times he opened the door and saw us and said "HOW did you even know I was...never mind just come in. What do you have to share with me today?" and one of the other times when we got there at exactly the right time, he asked "Do you have a gps tracker on me or something? You always know right when I get home.  How do you do that?" Then said something along the lines of you must be sent by God.  How else could you do all this? We went way over time on this lesson.  We were only going to be there for 15 minutes but spent 40 min and were very late to the next lesson but I didn't feel very worried or rushed to get there and when we got to the next lesson, the lady said "You're late, but... I only got home 10 minutes ago so I guess you were right on time.."

      Lately people have been requesting tons of free bibles from the church's website so we usually deliver a few bibles every week, One person (she was about 17 years old) we delivered a Bible to, opened the door and was very confused to see us standing there and we gave her the Bible and then asked if we could come back and teach her family, she then went inside to ask her parents and we could hear some form of heated debate going on but clearly nothing was settled on and as she was walking back to the door (it was just the glass storm door that was closed so we could see all of this happening) her little 5 year old sister yells "JUST TELL THEM WE ARE BUSY!" then the girl opens the door and tells us  "...uhh we are busy. sorry.."

As missionaries we get to experience first hand just how "busy" everyone is but that's okay. Not everyone can be ready to hear the Gospel but it would be helpful if people just told us the truth about whether they're actually interested or not.  It would be extremely helpful. Well, thank you everyone for your letters and emails! I can't wait to hear from you next! 

Have a blessed week!

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-Elder White