Today Instead of Yesterday

Big apologies. The Library was closed yesterday and there was no where else to email. actually, there was but Elder Tanner didn't want to bend the rules

...hey g-ma and g-pa sent me the 2007 newsletter. Is there a 2008?

When we were on team-ups over the weekend in Lakeside we went over to the Newton’s house. They are from Chandler AZ and the oldest girl went to Basha her freshman and soph year. she thought she knew Jared but we found out it was a different Jared Heywood. Weird. She said she knew the Willis family.

So I hear from grandma that there is a blog? I hope that you are editing out parts of the letters before you post them. Did my mission picture ever come out in the beehive?
Also, if you could please send up some cds in a cd case that would be awesome. The music that we can listen to is classical and church appropriate etc. I would like the EFYs too just without the really upbeat songs. just the sacrament type ones. i.e. "abide with me tis eventide" etc. maybe also bro bowmans books. Thanks. I hope I am not a burden. I feel bad having all this stuff come up.

Anyway, good ole Polson is doing great. We have a couple of lessons lined up today which should be awwwesome. its also raining which isn’t awesome and this morning Brother Heskiel shot a Magpie with his 550 dollar German pellet gun that can take down a deer off of his back porch. he says he hates those things because they are just like Muslims from back home. He has shared some pretty interesting stories with us concerning his escape from the middle east.

We have finally found/are teaching an old couple who are most likely going to be baptized. When we first met them she had just gotten a shoulder surgery ( I was able to relate very well) and was disappointed because no one had come to visit her from 'her' church. Every time (emy achtley. earl and emy achtley) she sees a picture of Thomas Monson she gasps and realizes that he could possibly be a prophet of god. everything is going for them. the last lesson, we had the stake patriarch (who is a convert by the way) and his wife join us. Both old couples clicked right away and we had a great lesson. We see them this Saturday. We are excited!!
There is so much that has happened since day 1 here in Polson. Its awesome to see all this happening. Its sometimes slow and sometimes (elder tanner and I have talked about this) We feel/I feel that I want and need to grab everyone up in an armful and teach them and try to get them to understand but it will and won’t ever work that way. We just have to find and teach the people who are ready to hear. Its really frustrating at times because we catch ourselves declaring, convincing and purifying doctrine then making an invitation. Its frustrating but good to know.

One quick story. There was a man who the sisters missionaries tracted into before we got here and set up an appt with him. We went to it and saw that it was a house we had already tracted into. We talked to the wife, who was home, and it was bad... so we were kind of thinking that our appt was just going to be a big bible bash. Which it was. Long story short without some funny details. We knock on the door and there are four people who answer who have a table prepared and are ready for a good session of "searching for truth" (which was what they called it ). PS they were all super ideological/philosophical. Anyway, everyone there was taking notes etc. and using computers for references and they pretty much made fun of the fact that we base everything off of a feeling. we left by bearing testimony and making the statement: it all comes down to the Book of Mormon blah blah blah, which is evidence that Joseph smith was a prophet and that his successors lead the church today. And those prophets and apostles run this church through revelation and are Jesus Christ's leaders in these last days who keep the principles and doctrines of the gospel pure and simple. etc(ps he told us that he had read the BOM and prayed about it)
It was good. those people will be searching all their lives.

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