Week 51

August 25, 2014
YO!

The past couple weeks have been filled with a bunch of stuff, and we've been pretty

busy working out the kinks with our area almost tripling in size. I'll try and hit

the main stuff that we've been doing though.

There's a 33 year old lady named Isabel that called us out of the blue two weeks

ago. She met with missionaries before, but because of pressure from her family

she stopped visiting with them and backed off. But then after a year of thinking

about it and reading The Book of Mormon, she decided that she shouldn't care

what her family thinks and do what was right for herself, so she called us and told

us she wanted to meet. We met her that night, and she was the most prepared person

I've ever talked to. She's read all The Book of Mormon, knows it's true, and wants to

be baptized. We met with her twice that week and she loved everything, and she

came to church and loved it too. We set a baptismal date with her, but then this week

we texted her to remind her about our appointment, and she said that she needed some
time to do some "soul searching" and she said she'd call us back when she was ready.

We still have no idea what happened, we haven't heard anything from her since that text.

We also contact a lot of mormon.org referrals in the city, because a bunch of people

google free bible, and mormon.org comes up first, so we always are going around

delivering bibles to the people that requested them, and we are usually able to

get a return appointment with them. We had one referral this week for a guy named

Jonathan, and we delivered the bible and he turned out to be a 15 year old kid. He said

we could come back and teach him, so we went to go see him on Saturday.

Apparently, he had requested a bible with no outside influence. His family is not religious,

he doesn't have a church that he goes to, and all he said was that he thought the bible was

a good place to start to get closer to God. We had a sweet lesson with him and talked a lot

about The Book of Mormon, and he was really excited about it and said he'd read it,

so that was pretty cool.

We haven't been able to see April, but the Key Mey family has come to church 5 Sundays

in a row which is awesome. We haven't  been able to have the skype lesson with them

with one of the members from the Karen Branch in Salt Lake, but we're working on it.

Anyway, we have tons of other stuff going on. It makes missionary work fun being busy all
the time.

Oh and we also went to the temple this week, which was the bomb. Love the temple.
I've got to run.

Love, Elder Holt