Things are going good. Elder Black and I are doing well and the work was good this week. The meals are good. We're trying out the calendar.
The Preach My Gospel DVD's are awesome. Make sure Kayla shows you the Law of Chastity: German. That one is super good.
That's pretty awesome about Jocie's friend. The thing that I would encourage is to get her involved in activities. The job of members is mostly social conversion. I'm not saying go away from talking about church, keep talking about church. But the more you can involve her in the social part of the gospel, the easier it will be to transition to even deeper gospel conversion. I kinda want to read the new FtSoY pamphlet.
That's pretty sweet about Brian getting into BYU-I do. The thing that I think would be best would be going to EAC. Then again, what do I know? The thing I'm thinking is that BYU-I doesn't really like people that go to BYU-I with the intent of going to BYU. Either or is best. And I think he should keep going with clarinet and do vocal performance. Do both.
Jocie: The website is www.byu.edu.
That's awesome about dad being able to be promoted to major.
Just kidding about Jocie's website. Go to google and type in "onestop byu" and click the first link. Then follow the instructions.
This week was pretty good. We're still struggling for lessons but we're getting a lot of new investigators. In the past 3 weeks we've had 15 new investigators. Most of those investigators have been families which was really good. This week though, we have about 5 member present lessons planned (we get at most two a week), and we might even get 3 on Tuesday if everything works out. We're pretty excited about that.
We found one family, the Diaz family, that is awesome. Last Friday, we didn't have a dinner with a member, so they invited us over. We had some of the best pupusas we've ever had. These were amazing. Pupusas are like stuffed tortillas with queso, frijoles, and chicharron. They look like this:
Put a little curtido and some salsa on there and it is the most delicious thing that I have had. Except for brownies. They are a great family with a lot of potential. The only problem is that we can't get them focused enough to teach a good lesson. So mostly we teach a good ten minute lesson and then talk with them a little bit 'cuz then people just scatter and then go in and out. Still great though.
We were doing a blitz and we went on exchanges with the other missionaries in our district (I was with Elder Jossie [pronounced Jocie]). We knocked into this old lady that absolutely loves missionaries of any kind. It was pretty funny. We taught her a little bit and then we said a prayer with her. And then she blessed us. That was probably the most interesting experience of my mission. She like made us kneel down and she starts praying for us and crying. We left feeling more rejuvenated and ready to go.
We also got permission to teach one guy who's girlfriend is a member. We had to get permission from like 5 different people to be able to teach him because he doesn't live in our area, or our ward. The reason why we wanted to teach him was because a member requested that we teach him, and Pres. Martin said if he's not happy, the missionary work in the ward suffers. So we had to get permission from the other elders who were teaching him before, the elders who are in charge of the area that he lives in, our district leader, and it was pretty crazy. His name's Bryan and he's pretty ready. Basically, the only reason why we're teaching him is because he's totally ready and because he just needs the lessons. He wants to get baptized by the end of the month. We can only meet with him once a week, so we'd have to squeeze the lessons together, but he pretty much knows everything through his girlfriend, who has pretty much taught him everything.
Well that's it. I'm getting pretty much kicked off because we e-mail in the family history library and there's a line of like 20 missionaries behind me waiting to e-mail.
Talk to you later.
Con amor,
Elder Nathan Gruenewald
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