"...We've been praying so hard this week..." Week 4

***For those reading this blog, you can thank me when you read this next letter.  Here's a request I made in my letter to him!  "I won’t complain about you not capitalizing letters, or run on sentences, but you’ve got to give me a new paragraph here and there!!!  Please, for the love!…."  You're welcome:) -Angela

We have been praying so hard this week for solid investigators and we finally got some maybey! Monday night we went to this lady who used to be taught like a year ago that lived just a couple houses away from us and as we were teaching her she basically just had all the hard questions like the trinity, the Book of Mormon being added scripture, Joseph Smith and tithing and a bunch more. We told her that we would right down all those questions and have answers for next time we met and just told her that we knew it was true and started teaching the restoration and we stopped on prophets because we had to go. we studied and studied all week to be ready to answer her questions and the day we were supposed to see her again she called and said that she talked to her preacher and she doesnt want to meet with us anymore so that was pretty rough but we learned alot through it. We spent all day tuesday in Big Ugly which is a big holler that goes pretty deep into the mountains we knocked on tons of doors with Sister Vanater who lives there but no one was interested. Then it was about time to go so we did one last house and BOOM it was a family with 4 kids and they accepted the invatation to take the lessons from us and we have a apointment with them tommorow so i am really excited for that.

  I am making this a new paragraph for you mom haha. Ok so on wensday night we went to a Rebeccas home she has 2 little girls who are 1 and 2 so they really remind me of Bronwyn and it was really hard not to hold them. but she was recently baptized like a month ago and here husband was born into the church but isnt active now. but we went over and taught a new member lesson to her and tried to get him to commit to stop smoking. he said he would try but didn't seem very serious. but after she told us how she was studying to get her G.E.D and how she was gonna fail so i asked if she wanted some help and she was like yes please! so my companion played with the kids while i tutored her and it was crazy because i was like so where do you want to start and she said addition and subtraction with numbers over like 10 because she didn't really know how to do it when she ran out of fingers very well. so i taught her tricks for adding big numbers and then taught her how to multiply and divide. it was really fun and next time i come over we will tutor her some more.

   The Senator family is awesome. they are all members already except for the 18 year old daughter but i think she will come around. but we met with them wednesday and they brought this man named Chris who is  28 and he was kinda interested in the church. so we taught about the scriptures and the importance of reading the Bible and the Book of Mormon. when we read in the book of Mormon we would read a verse then stop and he would just keep reafding to himself he loved it. So we gave him a Book of Mormon to keep and a restorsation pamphlet and told him to read 3 Nephi chapter 11 and to read the restoration pamphlet so we could talk about it next time so that's our second new investigator so far. i am so excited at the progress we are starting to see in this area.

   On sunday i get to play the piano every once in a while because the chorister picks the songs and if i cant play them she wont change them she just says we will sing occapela which in a branch of 30 people who try to sing the different parts and everything i swear it sounds like we are singing 10 different songs haha. we always bless the sacrament and its really cool but after sacrament meeting Sister Jane (she always tells us to call her momma jane) but she said so Elder White you are gonna play for the Christmas program next Sunday and i said ok what songs do i need to practice and she said every Christmas song so i have to learn 15 or so hymns in a week where i have no time to practice haha.

     After church we called the appointments we had for that afternoon and they all said they were to busy so we went out to downtown logan to do some walk and talking. we were having some pretty good success handing out he is the gift cards and taklking about Christ and we started walking down this road that led up to this hill with a bunch of houses that looked kinda run down and sketchy but we just were like whatever lets go it was starting to get kinda dark even though it was only like 5:30 but we didnt really care and we were a good way up the street when this car that was driving through a stop sign behind us rolled down his window and said hey! and honked we turned around and he waved us over. we jogged back and he said you boys from around here and we said no and he said well dont go up there its not safe for you boys. we were like ok thankyou and he said yep and drove off. Elder Clawson was like well come on and started back up the hill but i was a scardey cat and was like no way haha so we went back down to the city which is like a little bunch of buildings and a kroger store and since there werent many people out we just went home.

thats about all for this week. love you all

Elder White