Dusty's Email -- 9/29/08

Elder Howard with President and Sister Bulloch

hey hey hey,

This last week my companion and I found a ton of people to teach, and all of them were keeping their commitments to us on reading and praying and so on. We had 17 people that we had committed to go to church this week. We visited all except for this family of 6 because they were gone all day Saturday. 

But Sunday....only 3 came. yep, so my companion and I were a little down Sunday. 3 of the 17 we have been teaching for a couple weeks and one of their baptisms was suppose to be Sunday, but Saturday night 20 minutes before his baptism interview he and the other two decided to inform us that they weren’t really wanting to be baptized and knew Joseph Smith was a prophet but were going to stay catholic. We talked for a minute or two and they had just been lying the last couple weeks about everything.

That’s the problem here. Many people listen because its the word of the Lord and just go along with it, even accept a baptism date and then we find out they were just lying. The others we showed up to their houses to pick them up and they either weren’t there or didn’t want to come to church. Out of all our investigators. We have 3 left. We decided as a companionship to find all new ones this week. There is a lot of work to be done.

I’ve been here for a month already. Wow the time has just flown by and even though it’s hard, I love it. I’ve made a list with my companion, it’s called the “Apostata Lista”. It’s all the apostasy and all the funny things that people say that they believe, there is so much, I’ll show you when I return. It’s funny all the stories.

Mom and Dad got your package this last week…and all the food is gone. haha, but thank you so much. I never thought that I’d miss beef jerky. But that was so awesome. The pictures are so sweet of Brady and the girls. It was so hard to listen to the tape, especially the part right after the babies left. As mom was talking, I admit it I cried. It was real hard to stay focused the rest of the night because I couldn’t be there to help you guys through this. Its continued to motivate me to do something, I don’t know what, but something with CPS or the law or something when I get back. But I got awhile.

Thanks again for the package I really appreciated it. Oh and the toys, might not get to the kids here, because me and my companion have started playing with the animals with the parachutes. We go the roof of our building and throw them off and then run down and get them and do it again. haha.

The cycle ends this Sunday and probably my companion and i are staying here. Well I know that I am, but he has 3 months here, but the District leader who is leaving has 6 months in this zone.

I love you all...

CONGRATS to CJ for his awesome performance with the band and the awards that they won. keep up the work man I love ya!!!

Hope that the baby Bergen is staying healthy and strong and Lynette and Ryan and ALENA too!!!! I miss you all!!!

 Love

Elder Howard