Well I come home this week

Well i come home this week. soo ill see you soon! I have loved my time. I definitely have mixed feelings. But today i host a BBQ. it will be great! i am taking our car coordinators truck and his Grill! haha connections. and we had some missionaries talk to the mayor (because they baptized his grandkids) and get this park reserved and tables out for us which is usually 300 dollars. So things just worked out. gotta go

Love Elder Salmon

Sprinting to the end

I am doing really good! im sprinting to the end. But i dont have a lot of fesire to email... sorry. haha

But the weather has been nice! We get thunderstorms every so often. 

OUr investigators are doing great! Jet is ready for his baptism this saturday and this other 8 yr old we are teaching is also getting baptized this saturday. The family was LA and are now active. 

Connor Green is likewise ready to be baptized and it was supposed to be this saturday but they pushed it back so that family could fly in and attend. they also want to do his baptism, confirmation, priest ordination and sealing all on that saturday... It put elder Northrop and myself in a sticky spot as we klnow thats not the order of things. the church doesnt do things that like for convienience. each one is an ordinance and is very special. this doesnt teach him the importance of the ordinances. Thye insisted on asking our president and so i wrote hijm about ti today. i do not think they will get the exception. 

Also this week i had a baptismal interview. It was a very interesting one. The person was not ready and i could easily tell. he didnt believe in joseph smith or the book of mormon. they really wanted me to interview him because they wanted me to teach him why he cant get baptized if he doesnt believe those things. i had a good hour talk with him. And by the end the conversation ended with, "Paul you believe in the apostasy, you believe the church has been changed since the time of Christ. You better believe that the restoration happened or it will happen soon. Other wise we are all lost." he believed that. so i also convinced him he needs to pray about it and he said he would. so i hope i helped him. 

anyways gotta go

Love YA

Elder Salmon

 

The zone

 

 

I love learning from the Brethren

Dear Family and Friends,

this past week was good. We taught a far amount of lessons to connor and jet who are both prepareing for baptisms for the end of this month. A very sad note when i was going down to temple square i left my scriptures at one of the trax stations... i am very sad because i dont know where they are. they were gone when i went back. i hope no one stole them... and i hope a member picked them up becuase it has my patriarchal blessing in it, and i really want my name tag that are on the scriptures. so that was a damper but the lesson we taught was very effective. Connor loved the whole thing and the idea of being with his family forever. He doesnt want to wait to be baptized. now we just need his parents on board and set a date for him! they are very hesistant as all parents should be but they are actually hindering his ability to progress as fast as he should be. Its a little frustrating because Connor wants this. Anyways his parents are thinking of a date right now. And Jet is doing well is is getting ready for his baptism on the 23rd. At the end of this transfer thye are going to split the stake as far as missionary work. i did not feel like i could give adequate time and attention to all the wards so i asked president to put another set of missionaries in here and i think he will do it.

Had another exchange this past week. my last one. It was very good. i got to see how well this district leader works with his members and he has some great ideas. I learned probably as much as he did. i was also sick one day this week. not sure what is was but im good now. THis week we have Don R clark coming to do a mission conference i am very excited for that. i love learning from the Brethren. They just know exactly what we need to here. Well gotta go. 

Love Elder Salmon