March 8th 2010

Ok!  Sorry I didn't write last week.  I'll update us on last week too.

So as you might know we have 2 wards here.  the first ward is just right by the train tracks and is very small in area but has tons of members.  Ok we do very little work with them but one day a member called us and said he has a referral!!  It was awesome!  He is super open and has said several times "I'm going to become a really good mormon" and that he wants to get to know all the people in the book of Mormon because they are our brothers!  It's really cool.  We taught him the first 3 lessons now, and the third lesson is about "the Gospel of Jesus Christ" and part of that is Baptism.  We asked him if he wants to get baptized and he said once he gets to know about the church a little more.  He hasn't been to church yet, so thats our next step.  He said he will work on changing his work schedule so it's easier to go.   HE'S SO AWESOME!!!

Another guy we are teaching is a man named Leroy from Jamaica.  He's super cool.  Did you guys know that Bob Marley is a prophet!  I didn't know that either.  We brought this kinda less-active/new member on the teach with us (he has a really cool story.  His dad was the King of Sierra Leone, and he was to be the next King but all this political uprivial stuff happened, and his dad was murdered, and now our buddy moved to Sweden and is save.  he was Muslim but then found out that Christ is the Son of God, with guidance from the missionaries!)  Anyway we all got together and had one of the coolest teaches I've ever had.  We had quite the spectrum there. It was super awesome.  We taught the Plan of Salvation in a very un-standard manner.

We are still teaching our two spanish kids from Equador.  They are super cool.  We're just trying to help the girl come to church alone (her little brother doesn't want to come cause it's too boring. I agree! idk if I was 12 I would come to church on my own.)

Well that's about it for people we are working with!  Other things... there are some interesting things going on.  some guy is going around giving anti-mormon shows at churches (which blows my mind.  can you ever picture our church supporting an anti-anything activity)  anyway they are having a meeting in our area (which is heavily mormon) so that'll be very interesting...  I've heard some of his stuff and influence when I was in Luleå and it sounds like he doesn't have much to show, besides alot of peoples bias and bigot towards us already.  "onward, ever onward, as the triumph song we sing, God our strength will be, press forward" and the church will just keep rolling.

We met with the bishop and his family.  It was cool one of his daughters was into photography so we had a good chat about that.  pretty fun.

Anyway I hope all is well back home!

ÄA

Oh one other story.  We had a guy who got baptized a while ago, and his family lives in Chile and apparently their house got destroyed in the earthquake and they didn't have any access to water.  So they need help.  he's pretty terrified about it- I guess I would too!