Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Sorry I did not write yesterday ....the library was closed, it was a
holiday!
So this last week was good.  I will tell y'all a little more about my new
companion Elder Reiche is from Utah....he is a good guy.  We are working really hard... we contact all day almost
Everyday, so pretty much all we do is teach... it's pretty exciting...
We set 6 baptismal dates last week even though we couldn't get any of them
to church... it is an improvement.  I want to get at least 15 this week...
we started focusing on less active work...  we planned to go see a 20 year
old named Patrick Hoover and we took Harrison, a Priest in the ward who has
become my best friend..... he rocks!  We are even planning on rooming
together at BYU-I. Anyways, we took him to go see Patrick and on the way
there he asked who we were going to see.... and I was like" Patrick Hoover"
and he flipped out.  Apparently his older sister was the one that got
Patrick baptized so he was way excited... we went over there and talked with
him and got him excited to come to church on Sunday...  and he came..
. He is a cool kid... after church we went to see him again and his twin brother
Ed, who came to church, too was there and he was wasted.  He tried to hide a bottle
of vodka when we walked in. I laid down a rebuke and he said he would try to do
better but he was so drunk he probably didn't even know what was going on so we
are going to go over their again tomorrow night with Harrison and talk with him about
getting baptized...

we also got a less active named Vince Morales coming back to church... he lives
with his mom and he is like 35. Hopefully bringing him back to church will help
get him going again in life...
Other than all that not a lot happened...
O ya the funniest thing ever... I got asked out by a girl named Mistie
(spelled the same way) who works at Best Buy.  I was contacting outside
teaching this old guy and she just walked up and waited for me to get done
teaching and then she asked me if I wanted to go to a bar with her
tonight....  it was one of the most awkward situations of my life but I
was able to teach her but she is a party girl and doesn't want to change.
It was kinda funny ---I never expected it...  it was so random...
Yesterday we played soccer--- a bunch of missionaries from Gainesville came
down and Harrison brought a bunch of his friends it was a blast... I'm not
very good at soccer but I had fun just the same... Elder Huff is on a
trade off down here with us, it is good to have him back...
Elder Porter and I went on a trade off last week... his companion has some
mental problems that make him really slow in the week since he has gotten
here I have only heard him talk a dozen times & he won't even answer us some
times so President told Elder Porter to relieve himself by going on a lot
of trade offs with the district.
I'm having a good time though and I hope to hear from y'all soon.