Happy Fathers Day Dad!!! Well, it's nice that the conference thing is finally over! I like the pictures from it! Elder Goodrich (another missionary. Not my comp.) said that Kumen looks like a velociraptor. Members here could take a note out of President Slaughters book. 

Our baptism went without a hitch! Except I had to stop the prayer twice. President Taggart came, so I was talking with him afterwards and apparently he had held a stake meeting earlier in the week and our Ward was the only one that was not represented! A4. Enough said. 

In the meeting I told dad about that President Taggart had with the whole stake, the whole focus of it is to get the Ward super actively involved in teaching and fellow shopping investigators that are progressing or have a baptismal date. That is part of what I'm going to teach about in this week District Meeting. Without members involved, less than 20% of investigators WITH A DATE end up getting baptized. When members are involved, that shoots up to 60%. After our baptism yesterday, the Anaheim 1st Ward was baptizing Kristina, who I interviewed. As she was coming in at the conclusion of our baptism, a sister in our Ward said hey! I know her! She works with me! She had had no idea that someone she spoke and interacted with every day was getting baptized. That just goes to show that there is SOMEONE that EVERYONE knows that WOULD get baptized if the member would INVITE them to learn from the missionaries. Member missionary work is the only way THAT works. Otherwise the missionaries will only find crazy people. 

Anyhow, mom, I enjoyed the stories and the teaching from President Slaughter. Being an example is so very important. 

Mom finally made your chicken rolls for you! That's wonderful! And the cheesecake sounds amazing. I know you want to, but don't send me any. I'm trying to cut back on any kinds of unhealthy food. Yes, you are imperfect, as are we all, but don't worry! You did a pretty bang up job as a dad! Take this one example. When the youth were staying at the house, the probably had scripture study.  I guarantee most of them never have a regular family scripture study. In the ward I'm serving in right now, I have not met a single family that has a daily family scripture study. They simply don't know how, and don't have the discipline to set aside time every day to have some physical and spiritual structure in their lives. That is one of the best things you have done as a dad. Establishing a pattern of daily family scripture study. If everyone in our Ward did that the activity rate would increase from 17% to 50%. 

Thanks for the spiritual thoughts! I loved em! I'll send some pictures later today.

Elder Hunter