Right now we're in shorts and stuff because we get to play tennis today, booyah. Stockton may not have a "Walmart's" but we have nice public tennis courts. Go figure.
This week wasn't as awesome as we planned it to be, but we were still super busy and saw lots of people and also picked up four new investigators and one potential from playing basketball with the polygamists. I also scored six points in my game, just sayin'. Don't worry about the baskets I missed, that's irrelevant.
We've got a part member family in the ward, the LeBarons, as in the crazy fundamentalists from Mexico. The dad, Marden, is sweet, and his oldest daughter and son-in-law pretty much want to be baptized. They're a little iffy on the prophet thing, which is a typical polyg concern, but General Conference is coming up, so that should hopefully take care of that.
What other amazing things did we do this week...oh yeah,
So yesterday, we went down a wrong road to go to dinner, and turned in a guys driveway to turn around. Then he came out. So Elder Allred OTMed (Open Thy Mouth, Moses 6:32) him and he's sweet. So that was pretty awesome. Got a Book of Mormon placed and all that jazz. Cool beans.
Did I tell you guys about Alvin last week? Let me check.
I hate this e-mail system, I can't find anything. Give me another minute.
Oh yep, looks like I did. He's that Army opera singer who knows more than you. He's now officially an inside joke. We have dinner with that family again on Sunday and we both secretly hope he comes so we can laugh more.
We're having a lot of fun, if you can't tell.
We listened to this talk, "One Can Make a Difference" about this kid named Kent Williams. Every single one of you should go find that talk and listen to it because it's amazing and made me feel like poo and want to be awesome like Kent Williams. Then on Sunday we got a million more talks from Brother Brigance, a member in the ward, and we've been going ham-on since then. So many good talks that make you want to be better.
Okay, spiritual time. I'll tell you about our lesson with the LeBarons because it was awesome. We kind of did the beginning getting to know you points, and asked them what concerns they had before we began teaching because they basically know everything already so it's kind of boring and rude to teach them like they don't know anything. Marden talked about prophets for like 10 minutes straight because he's a talker. Then we talked about how to gain a testimony, and used the Restoration lesson to talk about revelation. I used one of my favorite scriptures, D&C 88:63-64,67-68, and then we asked Sister LeBaron, who is a member to bear her testimony and she was awesome amazing and it was sweet. Her story was perfect and we explained how if you are really looking for the truth, you will only it in it's entirety in this church, and once you have found it, nothing will be able to shake your testimony. It was sweet.
Well that's this week as far as I can recollect. Keep being awesome folks.
Oh pictures. Here let's see what I've got for you. This one embedded is Elder Allred and me at the Brigances wearing my signature glasses with my signature paunch and my signature thumbs up expression.
The two attached are the Bentonville Reunion at last transfer point (can't remember if I sent you that one already) and me pondering on our beautiful truck about days past gone on Memory Lane. Enjoy!
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