Nov18th Letter

Hey,

This week has been a good week. Our bishop has done a really good job of getting the ward into doing missionary work. Last wednesday he had a ward council meeting specifically on doing missionary work. And then this last sunday he had the speakers speak on missionary work again, just like we did last week. So I hope the ward rsponds by doing missionary work. The work is going really well for Elder Pierce and I though. We had transfers last night and we are both staying in Meadowbrook. Thats what I was hoping would happen, and thats what I was kind of thinking would happen. I think Elder Pierce and I work well together and the work is doing great so Im excited to stay and be apart of it. We have Tanya's baptism this Friday. We moved it to Friday instead of Saturday because the building is reserved for the Spanish ward on Saturday night. But we have the building reserved for Friday so it should happen then. We have taught her everything and she understands it and she passed her interview on Monday and so everything is ready for it to happen on Friday. And its pretty cool she wants me to baptize her and Elder Pierce to confirm her. Im excited to do it but I am nervous.

...I hope we can get the baptism right on the first try. Im a little nervous I wont get her all the way under. But im excited to do it and Im sure it will be fine. And her daughters decided that they want to wait to see their mom get baptized before they do it. I think they are a little shy about it. Which is fine, Im sure they will still get baptized soon. We still have alot to teach them because they are often busy with school when we go and teach Tonya. But we also have a baptism this next weekend with this lady named Marie Oke on November 28th. She has come to church like 5 of the past six weeks and she really likes it. She is very in tune with the Spirit. She says she can feel the spirit everytime she comes to church. And actually the way we found her is she saw a commercial for a Book of Mormon on TV and she just said she loved the way she felt when the commericial was being shown so she called for the Book of Mormon. So we delivered it to her and now she is going to be baptized soon! We still have a lot to teach her though so that would be the only thing that would require us to push her baptism back if we do have to. So I guess thats the update for us. We have alot of solid investigators too that we have been able to teach and hopefully we can continue to help them progress as well.


Well it sounds like you have all had a good week, like usual. Elder Pierce says hi back to annette. Oh and I was wondering if you could get Daniel's email address for me? please. Id like to email him on Pdays. I wish I could have seen Cubby jump out of the bike. lol. That sounds like it must have been pretty funny.

For Thanksgiving we are going over to this family's house named the Hills. Accoring to elder Pierce they are a really fun family to hang out with. He said they have good food and we would probably play alot fo games and that it would be alot of fun. So Im excited for that.

And I don think I need a calling card. Other missionaries have said they just go to a members house and use the member's phone. And I know we have lots of nice members that would love to have us over so Im guessing thats what we will be doing. Ill let you know if I need a card though. And as far as historical sites go, there are alot and we probably pass them quite often while we are on our bikes but I havent noticed any. We did go to one last transfer where the Jamestown colony was with John Smith and Pocahontas. That was pretty cool. But other than that we really havent seen any.

Good job being missionaries. I was thinking how growing up I was never really in a nonmember or less active house and I dont think I ever realized how much the Gospel blesses familes and people's homes. So that would be really neat if you could get them to come back to church. Im sure it could really bless their lives.

Thanks alot for the package. I really enjoyed all your turkeys. And I did like how spencers had a scope he was looking through. lol. That was pretty funny.

Well thanks for the email and the prayers. Oh and here's a fun fact I just thought of. I weighed myself yesterday and I weigh like 185.6 pounds. And I only weighed like 172 when I came out on my mission. So somehow I have put on like ten pounds since I came out on my mission. Lol. And I really dont know how because its not like we eat tons everyday. So im not sure how I have gained weight but Id though you might be interested to know that. lol Talk to you next week.

Love
Elder Larson