June 7th, 2011

FAMILY.

Well Elder McRoberts and I are really flippin out. All the members we`ve been encouraging and working hard with are catching the spirit, and the Gospel is flowing forth. My favorite memory took place Saturday night, we were standing in the chapel talking to our committed investigator, filling out a calendar of when we can visit her and teach her to prepare her for her baptism next saturday, when a member came up to us and interrupted our heavenly baptism conversation with the question "Hey elders, when can you come teach my daughter? She hasn`t been baptized yet and we really need to get on that." We of course have never experienced multiple people asking us to help them or their families to baptism, this was just fantastic. We have had no less than 4 investigators at church each week for the past 3 weeks and we are running out of time to meet with people in the week. What a lovely problem to have. Let`s just hope that the work continues and we continue to live up to the work!

We taught our investigator after the calendar set up, and we taught her about the Law of Chastity, The law of Tithing, and the Word of Wisdom. Her response was "Well I`ve never liked coffee or tea, smoking is gross, and I casually drink but that won`t be hard to give up. Tithing is an obvious blessing in waiting and I have a testimony of this. The law of Chastity is just commen sense."

Huh. Wow, well there goes that. Sometimes when people are super prepared by the Lord, missionaries feel useless. We have had very little to do with the conversion of this woman, but I don`t mind that in the least. She has been waiting too long for the Restored Gospel in her life, and on the 18th she'll enter into it.

We were asked to help with the Ward Ball after our lesson on Saturday. They had a DJ and everything, it was very well set up. (We had helped with the set up as well). As we walked in, we quickly utilized ourselves as the ward photographers, and some members walked up to us and handed us cameras. I received a Nikon D60, just like the one I lost to the pacific ocean...it was really nice to hold that camera again. We swarmed around the spanish families, and the Quebec families, and took lots of pictures. The two hours we were there they only played 1 french song and 1 spanish song-the rest were american hip hop songs. And 90 percent of the people there had no idea what the lyrics were, they don`t speak a lick of english. It made me realize what a headache pop culture music is nowadays and how much my taste of music has changed. Just us and Mindy Gledhill, that`s all we need.

It`s been a grand week, our fridge is full of the activity leftovers, and we have plenty of work to do.

Peace,

Elder Holm