44th Letter from California

Dont Worry Mom. You dont need to worry about it life just happens some times. I think we both need to work on being a little easier on ourselves. You will do great especially if you contincure to rely on the Lord through prayer and study. You will be blessed you need to have faith and confidence that you are recieving revelation for the relief society sisters.(I just love it when he councils me!)

Things have deffinately started to turn around here over this past week Elder Whiting and I have picked up two new investigators and they are both really solid The first is a lady named $$$$$$$$. We street contacted her this past Wednesday and we taught her the next day that was the most intense lesson I have had in a long time. We taught the Restoration and she soaked it up like a sponge one of the coolest parts was she told us that she believed that men had full right to break the law of chastity because that is part of their more agressive nature and they are also the bread winners. Elder Whiting and I turned to the exact same scripture with out any communication at all (Mosiah 3:19) She really seem to agree with it and then she asked us about some Plan of Salvation questions which we quickly covered and explaned that we would cover them more in depth in our next lesson which is actually tomorrow. I cannot wait!!!

Then there is !!!!!!!! this is another really cool story. She was a referal givrn to us by our district leader this past saturday. We made our first attempt to contact her in Sunday but she was not home.

Then it was zone conference the next day. It focused a lot on the inportance of using the Book of Mormon in our teaching and illustrating the imprortance of keeping commitments and emphasing kneeling prayers to our investigatiors. We were challenged by either President Brady or the assistants (that is really bad that i cant remember) to find a new investigator and give them a Book of Mormon with our testimonies written in it. The fun part abouti it was they wanted it done that afternoon. So we were let out of zone conference early to place our Books of Mormon. Elder Whiting and I had an appointment with &&&&&&& &&&&&&&, a recent convert. As we were walking to that appointment he drives by, calls us 10 seconds later and says he needs to reschedule. So we decide to go check on !!!!!!!!. She was there this time and we taught her the Restoration on her doorstep and she soaked it up like a sponge. Everything seemed to make sense to her and she said that she would read the introduction and title page of the Book of Mormon and kneel and pray about it by or next appointment this coming wednesday. She even said that she would see if her mother was intrested. So that was pretty much our week.

Love you more than a nice big juicy artery clogging animal style in and out burger,
Chris