April 28th 2010

Hey,

I am glad you all liked my pictures. I am fine even though that dog bit me. It is all healed up. I wish I could bring a gun home, but I cant because they are not mine. Sounds like you had a fun mountain man. I cant believe Jeremy brought a computer like that. That was pretty funny. And I did get to see the picture of your motorcycle. Its sweet. I tried to print it off but it wouldnt let me.

Well I am doing great. And I have good news. John and Sally are doing wonderful. They are the older couple we are teacing. We have been meeting with them regularly still for the past couple weeks and they love us. They always smile big when we come over and they thank us for teaching them. So on Saturday we decided to get them a fellowshipper, to get the members of the ward more involved. So on Saturday we brought over this man named Brother Norell, who is also older and him and John connected perfectly. They talked about trains alot, and they both like gardening so John showed Brother Norell his garden. It was great. Brother Norell invited John to church himself and on Sunday John and Sally showed up to church together. :) And Sally complained about all the little kids again but they really liked it. We went over there on Monday and talked with them for awhile. We taught them the Plan of Salvation. They understood what we were teaching and then we committed them to pray about it and to read the first chapter of the Book of Mormon. And then yesterday we went over there again and John just kept reading. He read the first 5 chapters. :) And he really liked them all. He believes them. So we decided to teach them the Word of Wisdom, because they drink coffee. And we were teaching the part about hot drinks and told them that that means tea and coffee. And Sally was like you mean I have to stop drinking coffee? And so we said yeah and explained how it was a commandment and it was addictive and then John was like, "Well we'll have to stop buying coffee." And Sally kind of rolled her eyes at him but then she asked if she could still be baptized if she drank coffee and we told her no, and reexplained that it was something they needed to pray about to find out for themselves. But then afterwards Sally told us she will try to give up coffee. And I am sure she can if she tries. They are great. They are so humble and willing to accept what we say. I love being able to teach them. They made us lunch too yesterday, which was nice. Sally was making us sandwiches and I told her "thank you grandma," to be funny. And she said your welcome, and then she said dont call me grandma again or Ill slap you upside your head. Lol. She always makes us laugh. I hope you think that sounds funny cause it was.

Well that is the highlight of the week. Vicki Silberman is doing good too. She came to church as well on Sunday. We are seeing her on Saturday. Oh and on Monday it stormed so hard. I could barely see. We were biking in a few inches of rain. It was alot of fun though. But I could barely keep my eyes open because the rain kept hitting my eyes. We were completely drenched. When we got home Elder White went and slid on his stomach across the grass like a slip n slide, cause we were so wet it didnt matter. Lol.

Well, thats about it. Thank you for the email. I am doing great. Have a good week.

Love,
Elder Larson