20 people on date!!

Hi Mom!
This week was way fun. At district meetings we went over baptismal invites. We are being encouraged to invite everyone and set specific dates. The mission hasn't been doing as well with the inviting so President is getting us encouraged. So we came up with diffrent plans at district meetings and we all just pretty much went out and we were just ready to invite.

Here's the miracle. In 4 days our zone put 20 people on date! The next step is keeping them on date. Elder Perry and I put a 14 year old named Zaria on date. Her grandma is a member but less active, so were trying to work a lot with them. Next me and Elder Perry feel that Chris and Mrs. Kelsi would the most ready and willling to except the invite. So thats gonna go down this week. When we went over to Mrs. Kelsi to help her with her house again she had us lay down Mulch and take out some trees. Mulch is huge over in the east coast. Like everyone uses it for all there landscaping. When we were done she said the funniest thing we were all talkkng about the poison ivy and she showed us where it was at ther house so we stayed away from that. But she was like "I bought you guys this special soap to use but you guys are all  on the medicine and i dont want to mess with that. I dont know what id do without you men so i dont want to risk it." It was so funny. One of theose you have to be there kind of things, She is one of the nicest ladies ever and she makes us like the freshest lemonade every week its way tight! Then we came back and taught her. We read with her Lehis vision of the tree of life and told us she is waiting for a man in a white robe to give her answers as well but she said it jokingly. She really like the story so that went great. And she understood a lot of it.


Then i was on an Exchange with Elder Cluff. Hes from South Jordan Utah and his High School came out to California and played El Dorado in a baseball tournament at Cal State Fullerton and later played a game at El Dorado. (he was on the baseball team) Small world huh? Then we taught another less active part member family. There an older couple and there names are the Craigheads, wally is the non member. Wally has been taking the lessons for like 4 years. They just really like the missionaries, and he said he knows our church is true and likes it when he goes, but doesnt feel organized church is impoortant. We had a "fun" conversation with him about baptism. He didnt want to be "serious" and didnt like it when i started to "serious" hahaha but they made us the best rib eye steak I have ever had so we left stuffed and he was happy because we complimented his cooking. We have making a lot of visits to a lot of less actives and thats going well there all pretty nice. So was pretty much our week. Then there was mothers day. Well mom you know how that was :) It was so great to talk to you.


Everything is awesome out here and i love it!


Love
Elder Powell