We Have Mice!

I get along really good with Elder Richins. He comes from a small town in Utah and he wrestled and played football so we have actually a quite a bit in common.

We are working with two non-member kids in a part-member family. Their names are Kat and Xavier. I am a little perplexed with them to be honest. They seem really keen when we go over for family home evenings on Saturdays but the topic of baptism is one that is a little up in the air at the moment. Their mom is a recent convert of almost a year and she is awesome. I don't think they realize what is at stake for them in the long run but it is all good they are kids and they have great interactions with the missionaries about once a week so that can't hurt. We are working with Cindy still. She has shown some interest in maybe doing a bible study with us. She has been an eternal investigator for ages so it is just trying to get her and her partner to commit. We have been able to give an older lady named Janet the sacrament which has been a blast. She can't get around the house all too well but she loves it when we come. She has also shown real interest in the Book of Mormon and the gospel which has been cool to see her attitude towards us change as we have been helping with service at Janet's place.

The branch at the moment seems like it is going to split into two branches. It is exciting because we will be able to get about 20-25 less-active members back to church because of it. From an investigator view point our teaching pool is small. We have about one in every town but it is really hard to set up appointments with them because things come up last minute. We have been out contacting in what Elder Richins and I call the power hours were everyone is home and that is about 3-5 in the evening. We have been able to get a couple of good potentials for investigators. We have an aboriginal couple named Simone and Frank and they are keen to learn the gospel so we are trying our best to usher them along through the lessons and into the Book of Mormon.

This week in particular has been funny I don't know if I said this earlier but we have mice. Elder Richins and I have caught about 4 of them. We also were able to borrow a puzzle from one of our members so we use that to decompress after the day.

This last week in my studies I have found some funny things. One is that no one really talks about Shiblon in chapter 38 of Alma. He is a cool guy and his council pertains to us as members of the church who are striving to do good.

This week Elder Richins and I have been experimenting with food and so that was fun to try new things but we got some stomach aches along the way. 

The highlight of my week came Yesterday. Emmanuel was able to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost! It was awesome. I then had the honor of conferring upon him the priesthood. I love when I am able to utilize my priesthood to serve others, that is when I feel the Spirit the most. I hope that I will have plenty of new neat experiences for next week.

Oh I also got a spiffy brown jumper.