June 8, 2010-Email

Hello once again...hows everything going today? so another week has gone by and before i knew it... it was my 6 month mark. it was fun we went and got chinse and everything and burned a tie. it was quite a fun night. so since wendesday is transfers we got calls yesterday night and the big news is...................... i'm staying here for another 6 weeks and my companion will be............ elder staggs again. so we are staying together another 6 weeks. so this will be a differenet experience for me. staying together longer then 6 weeks will be differenet and hopefully i don't strangle him before then. you know the saying you can do anything for 6 weeks well thats true but 12 weeks is definetly pushing it! anyway.... this last week was kind of a rough week for us and i don't know what it is but it seams like we can teach about 20 first lessons a week off of tracting but as soon as we try to go back and visit for a follow up visit they are never home or anything. its really kind of annoying. but anyway we taught another 15 lessons this last week not our best but with a holiday one of the days thats way good. we still were able to get over 120 contacts so yeah we were working hard still but yeah it wasn't paying off. but then something happened yesterday. we got a call from a member and she said that she knew somebody that we could teach so i'm like sweet! so we go and talk with them and i guess its a part member family and she is a member but he isn't. i guess he has been studying out the book of mormon and our church for about 10 years and he says that he is ready to get baptized. WOW!!! hes like i feel like this is what i need to do. i want peace and happiness in my life and i know that this is the only way i can do that. so thats a miracle right there!!!! that never happens ever!!!!!!! the only bad part well i guess its a good thing is that he says he wants his brother in law to baptize him which is good but he lives in lehi utah. so that will be rough not even going to the baptism. but i guess y'all could go to and tell me what its like and meet him. hes a really cool guy and i guess he wants to get baptized the first part of august... thats when hes visiting utah. i guess our long hours of stress, nonstop tracting, and hard work is paying off we are truly blessed and we were able to find 2 people who i think will progress alot in the upcoming week. we are a little late today and i only have about 2 more min till we have to go to lunch. then we are going to lake murray bout 5 miles away to watch a member that we usually hang out with go kite surfing. so we are going to go sit on the beach and watch for a little bit. no worries were not going swimming we are just going kite surfing so we wont even touch the water :) haha just kidding we are just going to watch for a little while since theres not much to do. well i'll be back on the e-mail a little later today so yeah but thats basically all thats happened. it really is super hot here. i'm pretty much dying everyday i'm really glad that i'm in a car if not i probably would have killed over some time. i'm pretty sure nobody is suppose to be outside in this kind of heat. we are trying not to have to tract during the afternoon but that doesn't really seam to be working but yeah don't worry i am drinking lots of water and people are getting alot nicer as we go door to door. most of them are like you guys are really devoted man i would not be caught dead doing that in this heat and they usually give us some water or something. well thats all i got i'll e-mail some pictures later on in the day when i'm back on again. but for now thats it haha :)
have a great day!great week
elder downs