morgan 6.7.10

okay so this week we got 2 baptismal dates. president carter is big on commiting our investigators to baptism each lesson. so we tried it. it worked with one. and then we were kinda scared to do it with this other girl because we had only taught her twice but we had a sweet lesson and she really felt the spirit so elder mayer says simply "we can set a baptismal date if you want." haha she did!! i have never heard someone give a baptismal date like that. we will see if they pull it through. today we are really hoping to get another date today.
okay so this week was really cool. it was a blessing from our rough week last week. we had 6 amis at church ( not much to jordans 17 but its alot for here. no worries jord we will get there!) yesterday was really cool. we had a really really good testimony meeting. testimonies here are really scary because we dont know what some of the crazy members are going to get up and say. but it was good.
also yesterday after church we went up to the castle and contacted all the way down to the river and along the river trail. it was rough. alot of denial. ALOT of denial. haha so i said a little prayer in my heart to find someone. right as i said that a family comes waking around the corner. haha i was so happy i walk up to them and say "hey me and my collegue.." i didnt get a chance to finish before the dude says he doesnt want anything to do with it. well the next person was sitting down on a bench he says "hey your the mormons" which is really rare here because everyone thinks we are jahovas witness' so we say "yeah we are do you want to hear our message" and he starts laughing and says "NO!! your a sect!!" haha so we explained our message anyways and he was interested. thats not the end.. haha so we try like 20 more times and we stroll across 2 24 year old dudes. drinking of coarse. we start off the contact and then ask if we can talk to them another time. they told us why not now? so we sat down and gave them all 3 lessons in an hour and a half. ones dad died recently and they are cousins. we gave away 2 book of mormons to them both and the one whos dad died askes us if he can get another for his mom. haha so we tossed him another. it was so cool. they are coming to play soccer with us saturday and have a lesson after. they are also coming to stake conference. i am so excited!!
okay so anyone who doesnt know, my mom is awesome!! she just ran a 50 mile race!! haha and about 5 miles in 2 feet of snow. I love you mom!! thanks for all you do! talk to you all next week!!

morgan