GOLDEN!!!!!!!

Here's the email we received on Oct. 1, 2012.  

(Sorry, I'm a little late posting it!)

HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everything's going pretty good. Unfortunately the lady we were supposed to baptize yesterday didn't get baptized...We went and visited her on Saturday and made the decision not to baptize her because she doesn't really know what's going on. She's SUPER old and she's kind of losing her mind. We showed up and she didn't even remember that we had her baptism planned. So we don't want to baptize her until she understands what she's doing.  Our other investigators are doing good. Ha ha we got a reference from someone in our ward and he's GOLDEN!!!!!!! He's been studying the Book of Mormon for like a month now, been talking to his boss who's a Mormon, has a pretty strong testimony, and he told us this right as we were leaving, "Alright guys my first mission is me, my second mission is my family. So you guys need to help me get my family converted too alright?" He's a SUPER cool dude!!!!!!!!! He was telling us that his girl friend was confused why all of the sudden he was investigating the church and he told her, "You know when you think your whole life something is one way, then you find out that it's actually another way? That's what happened to me. I found the truth and now I want it." Yeah a pretty dang good refference!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So we have a fecha with him for the 13th. We also have 3 other pretty strong fechas and we're going to work hard to get Davis (our golden investigator) family baptized too. And I think we have a pretty good chance. We're pretty sure his dad likes us and felt something because he drove us home after our appointment with Davis because it was like 8:45. And they don't live close to us. Like 25 minutes walking. So that with Davis testimony, we'll hopefully be able to baptize them!!!!!!

Yeah I got all the letters and I sent letters back to all of the ones I've recieved so far and I just got more today. So tell everyone that they're coming and I'm working as fast as I can! The mail service here is SUPER slow and on top of that the mission takes a pretty long time getting the letters out to everyone so tell them they're coming :) And it's good I can write them individual letters. President Ward said that we can write letters whenever we have free time at the end of the day so it's not too overwhelming.

I haven't heard from Jose but I just got a letter from him today! And it's Jose, so he's probably baptizing like a maniac!!!!!!! :) And yeah I heard about Braden's call!!!!!!!!!!! That's SUPER CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And SUPER SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm glad to hear that everyone is doing good!!!!!! That's awesome that Cole is playing in State!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A Houghton will FINALLY go to state for a sport!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha ha but seriously that's SUPER COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And a 75 at soldier hollow is a RIDICULOUSLY good score!!!!!!!!!!! That's nuts that Jakes bike got stolen again and this time it was pretty crazy!!!!!!!!!! Jake has pretty bad luck with things like that. It was funny he sent me a letter and asked if I live in a huge apartment complex becasue in my address it says AP 0823 or something like that. Ha ha I thought it was funny :) And I'm trying right now with the pictures. I don't know why but it's not working right now and I'm trying everything I know how to do so HOPEFULLY it works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If not I'll buy some kind of cord or something so I can get this stupid thing to work!!!!!!!!! And that picture thing would be pretty sweet!!!!!!!! I'll talk to my bishop and the primary president to see if maybe we can set up some thing up and it will be cool you can teach how the church is the same in all parts of the world. Anyways, I'll let you know about that. Anyways I'm glad you all are doing good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh wait, I just remembered something!!!!!!! We were contacting in a new area the other day and we came to this house and a black 57 chevy belair was sitting in the driveway. It was pretty sweet!!!!!!!! Ha ha it's the black version of Papa's car!!!!!!!!!!! Anyways, I love and miss you guys SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!