Mon 11/17/08 1:21 PM

Sent: Mon 11/17/08 1:21 PM


My area is safe from everything. This town is much like Saginaw maybe a tab bigger. Its not that big of a publicity area so its all good. Nothing comes up in tracting. Most of the people in our area were for prop 8 so its all good. Its as if it never happened when we are tracting the only time we hear anything about it is when we talk to the members.

The baptism is this Saturday and as i told dad it may not happen but we are hopeful. My other investigators are as follows. Our top investigator other than the one that is getting baptized is known as a dry Mormon. She does everything right. She goes to church, pays, tithes, read scriptures, prays everything but she is not ready for baptism. She read in a book that a man was truly converted when he say the light of god and that's what she wants. She wants to see the light. The missionaries in this area have been working with her for over a year and a half. We tried to offer her a bap. date but she turned it down. Another guy we are teaching is in a part member family. His wife is a member and he is awesome. He has amazing questions and i think he is leaning to be baptized but they had problems when they were in salt lake and got offended so they are slow to go and join our ward. Then the rest of our investigators are difficult and its hard to tell if they are truly interested or they are just trying to shake our testimonies. I didn't think that being a senior was very hard i just treated it just like any other year lol. I know what you mean though
LOL i don't know i just didn't think it was a big deal i mean i just think that its common sense to wait so yeah. That's awesome she told me about Barnes and nobles but not about the Mormon girl. I got their emails i am glad you are ok and that Becca was there to help you.

I am teaching FHE you can ask Becca about it i wrote her about it and i am also talking about how to recognize the spirit. I am teaching today.i will take some nuts. I love you

Zachary.

The weather here is surprisingly still warm. No need for a jacket at all. I kinda like it. The nights are a killer though. They get really cold and i have to get under three blankets to stay warm but the cold doesn't effect me while i am sleeping i can just feel it when i wake up and it makes me not want to get out of bed but i always do and its really not that bad. I always think its going to worse than it turns out to be. So its all just mental and i am getting over the feeling now.

That's awesome that you were able to go to the dedication i heard about it and thought that it would be a awesome thing to see but we were not given the opportunity to see it but its all good.

The members are really good at retaining new members but baptisms are rare. I told you before that we had a baptism this Saturday but it might not happen now. The guy got arrested and was about to be shipped out somewhere we visited him twice that was interesting. He has such a great spirit and humor at times we would just forget that we were in a prison until we realized that we were talking on phones with glass between us. We weren't even allowed to bring a Bible with we had to take everything and put it in our car. Anyway it turns out that he was arrested unjustly so he is being released but he missed Sunday and he needed to go so we have to talk to our mission president if we can get the ok with the baptism. The thing about him though is that he isn't even in our ward. The only reason we are teaching him is because he does not like sister missionaries. He thinks they are just to social and don't teach much. He loves the gospel and he really has the desire to be baptized so i hope we are able to do so.

My head was healed even before i came to Cal. No fires near me. None that i know of at least. Not in this area fire has not been a problem, well to my knowledge at least. I have not given a talk in my ward.

That's awesome that is an amazing quote.

Love you.

Zachary