He said he'd probably come to church. He also might have been drunk.

May 15, 2007
Dear Family,

I'm glad you had a happy birthday, Becky. I sure had a happy your-birthday. It was nice to talk to all of you on Mothers Day. I have made good use of the jokes.

Well, this week, I went on exchanges with Elder Navarette (from the Phillipines). Earlier in the day, we went to check on a less-active member; she had moved but we talked to the neighbor, and got in and sat down and taught a lesson. He said he'd probably come to church. He also might have been drunk.

That night, we had some time before one of the members of his ward picked us up to go out, so we went street contacting and tracting. First, we walked through a parking lot of a shopping center. I thought I was helping a little old lady, when she started taking her cart back from the car, I took it from her and said not to worry, I'd take it back for her... well, she went into the store and got another cart, so, I guess I stole that lady's cart. I felt pretty stupid Heh. Then we went tracting in this neighborhood where there was a little kid skateboarding. Three times, as we passed each other, Elder Navarette said, "Hello, little girl!" Finally, the third time, the kid said, "I'm not a little girl" in a rather low voice, and Elder Navarette felt stupid.

This week, Elder Baadsgaard and Elder Navarette had a family randomly come to church who wants to be baptized. They scheduled all the lessons for this week and a baptism in just a couple weeks. Then yesterday, they got a new investigator and in the first lesson, they asked her if she wanted to come to the baptism. She said yes. They asked her if she'd like to be baptized then. She said yes. So, there's some pretty amazing success going on in the district.

We taught the Linkowskis again last night. We took them locally-famous VG's donuts to teach them the gospel. We illustrated faith by the fact that there were donuts in the box which they couldn't see, but they believed they were there. We illustrated repentance and baptism by requesting that before they could eat the donuts, they had to go wash their hands. Then we ate the donuts. Their grandpa is going to baptize them, and not within the next couple weeks, so it's not going to be while I'm here.

The Twiggs are doing pretty well. Still having a hard time quitting smoking. Today is 25 days without alcohol.

We went street contacting in the grocery store parking lot, and there was a guy selling newspapers at a table out front. So we went up and talked to him. He was Christian and converted to Buddhism. We taught him the first three lessons and went back the next day to give him a Book of Mormon and the pamphlets. He says he'll read the Book of Mormon. He lives out of the area, though.

We went to the bible study again this week. He asked us to prepare the discussion for next time. We're glad to do that. He is also working on an addition to his house and Elder Burton is a certified electrician, so Elder Burton offered to help him. That should be later this week. It's a good service opportunity.

The Twiggs were the only ones who came to church. The others all had mothers day excuses.

Well, that's about it for what's going on here. I hope you're all doing well. Good luck training for the bike ride, mom. I love you all.

--Elder Myers