April 25, 2005
E-mail of April 25, 2005
Dear Mom and Dad,
Congratulations again mom, how does it feel? It sounds like it's been a pretty wild week! My week has been pretty good too. First of all, we got a lot of work done. We went tracting and found a few (hopefully) solid investigators. I am really excited to go and teach them. We also taught a lesson to a lady that speaks very little English, and speaks Spanish, but one of the Sisters in the ward translated whatever she didn't understand. Then a member gave us a referral and we went and taught him at the member's home. After we taught him about the Restoration, he told us that it sounded great, but his problem with Christianity was that they believe that only they are going to heaven, and all the people that never even had a chance to hear about Christ would go to hell. So he was quite excited when we told him about temple work. It was a very cool experience.
I am very surprised at how much work we were able to accomplish this week. Also, Elder Brooksby and I gave talks in Church. It went really well, and I will try and mail you a copy of my talk. It was cool because after I gave the talk, I just felt inspired to say a few more things, and the Spirit was so much powerful, it was really cool.
Also, transfers came in this weekend. Elder Brooksby is getting transferred, so the Samoans gave him a really cool sendoff. We had an (obviously) huge dinner and they gave him a couple lava lavas and a few bead necklaces they made. It was really cool. Tthe Samoans are great people. Also, my new companion will be Elder Midinski from Idaho. He has only been out for one transfer! So I will be senior companion and driver. I definitely did not expect to be senior companion this early! I am pretty nervous, but I know I can do it. I am excited to see what happens.
Love,
Timothy
