July 13, 2010-Email

hey how are things back in the good ol' town of bountiful? things are going here. only a week till transfers and i'm excited for that! lets see not much happened this last week. it was kind of a slow week. we kept on trying people but nobody was home or wanted to listen. it seams like a trend lately thats going on here. its getting kind of annoying but we have 3 investigators that are progressing so thats good. one of them charles is the one thats getting baptized some time in august when he goes on vacation to logan. i'll get the info for next week and let you know so you can give him a call when he comes to try to go to it. it should be really cool. the other ones are a couple that we found tracting. they are pretty interested it seams like they agree with everything that we have taught them so far. which is cool. they both have been studying in the book of mormom before we come over and like it alot. the only problem is that they don't want to come to church yet so thats about the only problem i see besides that he smokes but he wants to quit so thats cool. but other then that all we do is tract it seems like. i think that i've pretty much tracted every street in ardmore pretty much if not 90% of them. we have still been doing alot of service around here yesterday we mowed a lawn of someone we tracting into a week or 2 before but it was almost a foot and a half tall. so that took a long time but we are also helping the member that we usually go over on p-days with his house. we just helped him put a lawn in and now this week i believe we are going to help him paint inside. which will be fun. oh my talk haha... it went really well i think that everybody enjoyed it. i knew that elder staggs and the other speaker where probably going to hit member missionary work hard so i talked about why i came out and what i've learned in my 7 months being out. then i talked about my favorite missionary in the book of mormom, ammom. of course i had to start with him cutting off all the arms of the lamanites. then i tied it into member missinoary work at the end. then i read a story. and that was about it. i was going to read a story in the scriptures that i though was way funny and was really appropriate. when jesus says to paul i believe to feed his sheep 3 times. i was going to say that there are to meanings of that to me. to take care of everybody around us and spread the gospel and the second one being feed the missionaries. we are the sheep too. and he commanded him 3 times to feed us! haha but i ran out of time i actually went over a little bit so i didn't get a chance to do it. but everybody was so surprised when i said it was my first talk since my farewell but all in all it was really good. how are things going back home in the ward. how is bro buckley doing as bishop? i bet he would make a good one. hows dad doing? busy still? how many days left to you retire now? haha how are all the baseball games you guys going to? i bet there way fun! i haven't bought a bag yet i will if i get transfered but i'm waiting till transfer calls on monday. yeah i bought some fruit and we got some from members so yeah. umm i haven't taken any pictures lately so i'll send some new ones next week. sweet almonds! i'm excited. no i don't need anything i'm doing great. just pray for lonnie and lynda that they will want to come to church. and that everything goes well with charles lewis. so thats all i got for this week let me know if you need anything talk to you later! have a good week
love y'allelder downs