All of our investigators are doing pretty well

Dear Family,

Happy Birthday Michelle! I hope you had fun at your big date. You're 17 now? Wow.

Becky, thanks for sending me the email. I will have to bring some headphones to the library next time so I can listen to the recording. It sounds like you are having a lot of fun in band. I remember some of those songs you are playing. So you're playing some solos? That's awesome.

I'm glad the photos work. If you have questions about any of them, you can send me the picture and ask me.

That's fun that you're going to vancouver canada. One of the missionaries in my mtc district was from vancouver canada. His name is Elder Ivor Lee, and he's in Arcadia California chinese speaking. When you go to church, you should look for his plaque on the wall, maybe he's from where you'll be.

So anyway, on to me. Well, first of all, that man we met last week who lives by the temple is now investigating, and he came to church. Isn't that great? I don't know if he can be baptized before he goes back, but we'll certainly try our best to help him however we can.

This week, one of the previous missionaries to serve here came to visit. His name is Elder Chen and he is from taiwan. He is visiting with his fiance. They will be here for about 6 more days, after which he will go to BYU. So, he's been the most popular guy of the week in the branch. Even moreso than elder Elkington who, as of today, has 2 weeks left.

We found out from President Garner that the replacement for Elder Elkington won't be coming until april. So it'll be interesting to see what happens.

We are still teaching Mr. Dai and his wife. They find the things we teach exciting and a little bit hard to accept at first, but they are willing to keep working with us.

Bill Thompson got sick this week so our appointment was cancelled.

Last night, Elder Jensen and I had a cool street contacting experience. We were walking home and a truck stalled at the corner we were at so we helped him push it around the corner. He offered to pay us, but we turned it down and gave him a pass-along card with our number written on it if he needed any more help from us.

We have been receiving far more referrals than we can keep up with lately, which is very cool. Some of them have little or no promise, but some of them are rather good. We still have about 13 or more still uncontacted, but we've been trying. It turns out that asking more people for referrals actually gets us referrals. I don't think us missionaries will ever cease to be amazed when by following our leaders counsel, we actually achieve more success.

The work in this area is actually pretty exciting right now. It has picked up a lot from when I first came into the area 2 months ago, when it was pretty much a dead area. Something actually happened that was pretty cool this morning. I'll have to tell some backstory.

So, when I first came into the area, a baptismal date fell through. There is a recently reactivated mother named Sister Tuioti, who is married to a nonmember. She has a few kids from a previous marriage, as does he. Elder Gibbons and Elder Jensen were teaching the three oldest - her two daughters and his son. The father refused to let the son be baptized, and after that, Sister Tuioti was impossible to get ahold of --

Hehe, Elder Rees our zone leader is talking to a lady right now at the computer next to him about the church. He's a great missionary. I just took a covert picture of it. He's actually teaching a lesson.

-- anyway, so, after that, Sister Tuioti was impossible to get ahold of, and so the baptism didn't happen. And after that, we still couldn't get them to arrange a time for a lesson. They came to church twice, but it was still pretty impossible to get ahold of them. And then, last week we heard that they had been having some family problems - the mother took her kids and moved out to LA where her parents live, and even got a restraining order against the husband. At least that's what we heard. And so things were looking grim for the 2 girls who wanted to be baptized. But then, amazingly, they met with the bishop last night and what came of that was that the father now wants to meet with the missionaries. Wow. We are teaching him tonight. What an opportunity we now have, to bring a family back together and unite them in the gospel. I don't know how open he really is, but we'll do our best.

I'm about out of time, but all of our investigators are doing pretty well; I'm glad to be here. Thanks for all of your support. I love you all.

Love,

Elder Myers