Hello everyone! I hope you were all able to enjoy the free slurpies on the 11th of this last week! Such time honored traditions are extremely important. This week was pretty exciting. I drove around a lot and got a little more familiar with my new area....so much driving. This week not much happened! Just driving. Lots of driving. It poured for the past two days here! We haven't gotten rain in forever and we just got oodles and oodles of rain! Apparently it was coming off of some hurricane in Mexico or something. And we are supposed to get some more rain today! I LOVE RAIN!!!!! Since not much happened....again this week, here is my short though. This is a part of a General Conference talk that I love. It talks about the power of the Book of Mormon in helping people to know that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and that he told the truth.

"Elder F. Burton Howard of the Seventy acquaints us with a strong testimony of the converting power of the Book of Mormon: Sister Celia Cruz Ayala of the Puerto Rico San Juan Mission decided to give the Book of Mormon to a friend. She wrapped it in attractive paper and set out to deliver her present. On the way she was attacked by a bandit who stole her purse and with it the wrapped copy of the Book of Mormon. A few days later she received this letter:

Mrs. Cruz:

   Forgive me, forgive me. You will never know how sorry I am for attacking you. But because of it, my life has changed and will continue to change. That book [the Book of Mormon] has helped me in my life. The dream of that man of God has shaken me. … I am returning your five pesos for I can’t spend them. I want you to know that you seemed to have a radiance about you. That light seemed to stop me [from harming you, so] I ran away instead. I want you to know that you will see me again, but when you do, you won’t recognize me, for I will be your brother. … Here, where I live, I have to find the Lord and go to the church you belong to. The message you wrote in that book brought tears to my eyes. Since Wednesday night I have not been able to stop reading it. I have prayed and asked God to forgive me, [and] I ask you to forgive me. … I thought your wrapped gift was something I could sell. [Instead,] it has made me want to make my life over.

Forgive me, forgive me, I beg you.

Your absent friend.

Such is the conversion power of the Book of Mormon."

The Book of Mormon is the most powerful book in the world. Like I do in just about every email I send, I want to invite everyone to read it if they have not, ponder and apply the teachings that are in it, and ask God if it is true.

Here are some pictures from my last week in A4!

Elder Hunter

1-3. How exactly did this (accident) happen???????

4. Elder Meyers and Dawg.

5. Elder Meyers and I with Sister Atkinson. She was a visa waiter to Australia for two transfers and she just left. Yes, I am holding a u-lock.

6-7. My new area!!!!!