Mom, well, let me tell you! Last night, we were trying to visit a potential on this one street, and we saw this lady in a tiny laundry room (we're talking like, you could fit a single bed in the whole thing if the washer and dryer weren't there.) right next to their apartment, so we went up and knocked on the door to the laundry room, just to be funny, and said hi! Do you live here? This is an interesting place.......she thought we were funny enough to invite us inside on the spot and we sat and talked to her for a bit while 3 of her brothers/relatives (25 years +) played call of duty. She turned out to be 29! So she's YSA! They're a Samoan family. Or half Samoan. Finally they stopped and went away, and we were able to hear better and the spirit was able to come in. Turns out they just had a funeral for their uncle, so we taught the restoration, testified of the importance of families, gave her a Book of Mormon, invited her to watch conference with us on the weekend, and sang God be with you till we meet again. Wow! The spirit was so strong! That's only the second time in my mission that I've been invited in and been able to teach on the spot! She felt the spirit, and we set an appointment to come back on Wednesday.

Our sacrament meeting was just a bunch of musical numbers. It was very pretty, and just full of the spirit, it was wonderful! This is an interesting Ward....half of them just dipped out after sacrament meeting. Thank you so much for the talks! I can't wait to read them! I already talked with President about it. When we were discussing my release date he was the one that brought it up. He said he would give me an endorsement for sure. :) I think now that I'm just about done with my mission I've finally gotten the work thing figured out.....took me long enough.....I'm just going to tell you about C now. When we first started teaching him about 5 months ago now, he thought the Book of Mormon was of the devil, would not touch it, and sad to not ever ask him to be baptized because there was no way he would do it. When we had dinner with him last Sunday, as we were explaining stuff to his sister, who was in town, he basically bore his testimony in the prayer he said, saying "Lord, please give me the desire to be baptized into the church of the Latter Day Saint," and "please give my family the desire to learn about the church, and to have an open heart." Since I was leaving, I challenged both of them to read 3 pages in the Book of Mormon every day with me until the end of my mission. We've never been able to get C to read. I followed up with him on Saturday on the iMessage app we can use, and this is what I wrote, and what he wrote back.

"How's the reading three pages a day coming?! Here's a couple things that I really really liked over the past few that I want to share with you! 

1. In 1 Nephi 2:16, Nephi has great desires to know the mysteries of God. A mystery is something God has revealed through his prophets. So Nephi prayed, and the Lord 'visited him' and softened his heart so that he believed. Verse 17 explains that it was the Holy Spirit that made the things known!

2. 1 Nephi 4:31-37. Oaths (promises) are made, and when these VERBAL contracts are made they are recognized as binding! Pretty cool how people's promises didn't need to be written down and signed. They just lived up to their word.

3. 1 Nephi 5:4-6 explains the method of comforting and consoling people when they are angry or mad. Be humble, jus say yeah, you're right, and then share your testimony of the things the lord has blessed you with as well as what you have faith that he CAN do!

4. 1 Nephi 7:17-18, when Nephis brothers tie him up and leave him to die, he doesn't pray to the Lord and ask him to take him out of the situation he's in, he asks for the strength to change his circumstances. He is accessing THE ENABLING POWER OF THE ATONEMENT!

5. 1 Nephi 8:33, when in Lehi's vision, he and everyone at the tree of life is being mocked by those in the tower, his attitude is just incredible, as demonstrated by the last 5 words of that verse.....BUT WE HEEDED THEM NOT!! This should be our attitude towards anyone that looks down on the good values we have. 

6. 1 Nephi 10:17-19 Nephi explains that he wants to 'see, and hear, and know' the same things, and wants to do so by the power of the Holy Ghost, which is he way God has always worked. What have you liked?"

"Hey bro I am actually caught up with the reading, the book of morman is starting to be my favorite. Am in Washington is their anyway you can get me in touch with any missionaries here?"

Imagine how I reacted to that!!! I was trying not to jump up and down and scream! 

Love,

Hunter