January 23, 2012

Hello Everyone,
Dad, that's good that your Patriots get to play the Giants in the Super Bowl again. Hopefully they can win this time--that's exciting!  We had something pretty cool happen last night. We were knocking this street and it was like 7:00pm so it was dark and we had this great conversation with this lady and her kids out on her front porch.  Her husband wasn't home so we couldn't go in but we set up a return appointment.  But when we were finishing up 2 cop cars rolled up and they got out and told us to come here.  The one was really nice and said oh hi elders haha  and the other guy was pretty big and was kind of standoffish and just didn't seem friendly.  So they just said that someone called us in but once they found out we were LDS missionaries then we were good to go.  They just ran our ID's and stuff and so we just chit chatted for a few minutes about our missionary work with them.  The not friendly guy left but the other guy stayed behind so we kept talk'n to him and said that growing up he had quite a few LDS friends and then like after 15 minutes of talk'n he finally admitted that he was actually a member and was baptized when he was 19 and even thought about serving a mission.  He said he didn't wanna say anything in front of the other officer cause I guess that guy is like really anti religion.  So it was cool talk'n to him. We got his info an  hopefully we can set up a time with him and then baptize his family! (ha ha) So even though someone tried ruining our night they sent us more missionary work to do (ha ha).  Then later on the street we talked to another one of those crazy non denom people for like 20 minutes.  She just kept trying to tell us that we are all saved by grace no matter what as long as we believe in Christ.  She just didn't understand anything we tried telling us.  Those people are impossible to talk to.  But we are working with this one guy.  He was a referral from another ward. I guess the missionaries there had taught him a few times and then he moved into our boundaries.  So we taught him and he came to church yesterday with his girlfriend so that was good.  He is a really nice guy and really wants to be baptized.  He pretty much can whenever he gets married or kicks out his girlfriend (ha ha).  But I can't remember if I told you but Roxanne dropped us so oh well.  I really hope Julie gets that job.  I actually talked to this member that took us around one night to some appointment's and he is from Monticello.  His last name is Anderson and I guess his dad is the Judge there and he said he knew the Lewis' so i thought that was cool.  I got the pics of Ava today--she looks really cute it looks like she got Trevor's eyes.  Courtney it sounds like you did good at your basketball game just keep playing hard and keep doing good in school.  And Monkey it sounds like you got a new boyfriend.  Courtney will have to keep an eye on you (ha ha).  You will have to let me know more next week.  Well that's all I got for this week. Glad you finally got some snow there (ha,ha).  Love you all very much. I will talk to you more next week!


Love Elder Morgensen