Oct 11th 2010

Hey,


We are doing good in Hampton. We have transfers coming up next week. We find out this Sunday if we are leaving or staying and then thursday after next are when the transfers happen. Like last time, I think that at least one of us will be transferred but anything could happen, and also like last time I really want to stay, but whatever happens happens. We are still doing well.

Brother Dontje is doing great. He had his baptismal interview on Saturday and it was with a member of the mission presidency. He passed! So he is getting baptized this coming Saturday if all goes well at 6pm. I am pretty sure it will happen Brother dontje has a lot of faith and a strong testimony. Right now he is looking for a job and we were talking and he was saying that he knows what is going to happen. He said that right before he gets baptized he is going to get a call for a really great job opportunity and they are going to want him to come at 6 o clock, right when his baptism is. And we laughed and said that yep that probably will happen. But then he said that they would have to wait cause he is not moving his baptism. It was good to hear. We also had him over for dinner at our ward mission leaders home. He and his wife are some of the most friendly nicest people, and we love bringing investigators over to their home. They do a great job of telling stories without realizing it of miracles that have happened in their life because of the church. They are great to solidify (that's the word we use) investigators testimonies. So we did that this week with Brother Dontje and taught him about tithing at their home and he wants to live it so he is doing great. We are definitely being blessed.

We are also working with a less active family named the Smiths. The parents are not active and the kids need to be baptized and the parents want the kids to be baptized so we have been teaching them, and the parents are working to become active, but like everyone in the world it seems like they have alot on their plate, which also like almost everything could have been avoided if they had been active in church. But anyway, they are a good family and they have a little boy named Ethan and he is 9 years old and we have fun teaching him. He reminds me of spencer. He loves sports and riding bikes with us and they are just fun little kids. They are really smart too and understand well. And sometimes little kids ask the hardest questions. They also have a little girl named Kaya who is 7 but she turns 8 in January and they want her to be baptized too when she turns 8. So our lessons are with Ethan and Kaya and Ethan is going to be baptized on October 30th. It was funny, yesterday we had a lesson with them. We have taught them how to pray, so we had Ethan say the opening prayer, and he was saying a really good prayer, saying all the things he was gratful for which is what we taught him, and then he paused, and Kaya starting whispering "In the name of Jesus Christ Amen" to him so he would end the prayer, and then Ethan whispered back I still have more to say, and he paused for a little while and then I whispered to him to help him "what are some things you want help with?" and then he said reading, and then Kaya was like, "yeah cause you got an F on it." It was really funny. And then we ended the prayer. It was really funny, and it might sound bad but you could tell they like to argue like all little kids so it was just funny.

Yeah I have been keeping my chain oiled. One thing I have had fun doing throughout my mission is doing little projects on my bike. I have fixed too many flats to count and those really havent been fun, but I have also learned how to replace the chain cause that one time it broke and I also replaced my cables and brakes and have had to many times adjust my derrailuers. I have also fixed something called the bottom bracket which is the piece in between the cranks. It has been fun and each time I had to figure it out on my own but I enjoyed it. Well I have to go but I love you and have a good week.

Love,
Elder Larson