Sunday, December 22, 2013

"I'm looking forward to Christmas"

Dear Family and Friends,
Well its sooo good to write to you all this fine Pday. We didn't really have a super exciting week but we are coordinating a baptism for today which will be our third for this month. the Lord has really blessed us this month. But after today we will officially have no more investigators... soo FINDING YEAH! Danny pham got confirmed yesterday and i wasnt able to attend but elder ehath was their. i was in another ward as our mission president decided to speak at one of our wards and meet with our stake president. I really Love both my stake president and especially my mission president. they are both men are amazing Love and kindness. they are people that i just want to be around and learn from. i have no idea what they talked about but im sure it was how to increase member support in the stake.
Well just as an idea i wanted to see where the stake is with missionary work and i created a servey for people to take. and i tested it in a ward  yesterday and got all the data and create a chart then i heard i may not have been allowed to do that... oh well no one told me not to. Anyways i have some data and i shows exactly what i thought. People know they have a responsibility to share the gospel they know it will help others but they don't know anyone who could receive the gospel and they are not comfortable sharing the gospel. Which im sure none of you who im writing too are too scared to share what makes your life soo amazing with other people.
We have transfers tomorrow... soo we will find out what will happen. Everyone in the stake keeps asking me if im getting transfered soon. apparently ive been here too long for them haha. actually a lot of people know us and have told us they didnt know the missionaries before. i can see the wisdom of keeping people in an area for a long time. i am grateful i could serve in this stake for soo long. im looking forward to christmas! cant wait to skype and see many of you.
Love elder Salmon

Thursday, December 12, 2013







"I'm getting good at driving in the snow"

Dear Family and friends,
I may sound weird but i am not that excited for this holiday season. i mean what are the greatest joys of having snow, no school, Christmas lights, a fire, giving presents and all the food that goes along with this season? its really none of that. those individually don't bring all that much joy. It was for me the company that i got to enjoy all those with. i think this Christmas is harder for me than last. But this one means so much more to me. I feel that i have come to understand my savior much more because of being able to participate in this great work. It is a great time of the year to be able to celebrate his birth. It is a time of good news and of hope. I wish that this year many people will come to the understanding of the gospel.
Elder Heath and i had a great week. we got 2 people prepared and baptized last Saturday. it was a very special day. and i see the Lords work in all of it. Danny Pham's baptism was especially spiritual. he was so excited and ready for it. We had quite a few people including a member of the stake presidency who actually sang at it. He is bummed because he cant be confirmed until this Sunday due to a special stake conference. He will be a strong member of the church. in total we knew him for 20 days and he got baptized.
Then Lilly wiggins got baptized. previously she was afraid of the water. i am a little worried about her because her parents are supportive but neither are active. her grandparents live next door but they themselves aren't that active. they were not happy when i said that she needed to be confirmed in church. But they cant do it because of other things until the 22nd and so i see the lord work in getting the whole family once again to church. I talked it over with the bishop and we both agreed not to ask for an exception to the rule of getting a convert confirmed at the font. it will show an extra level of commitment from the parents and the grandparents.
But this weekend was a lot of fun. Tons of Christmas parties. But the best part was the special stake conference! we have 3 general authorities in attendance for a young married Fireside saturday night (which i still attended because it was at my stake conference). Elder Ballard was in attendance along with Bishop Causse, and Elder Sean Bowen of the seventy presidency. I didnt go up and meet them but i was very close to them. i really enjoyed that night. talked a lot about accountability and choices. Calling out the men with pornography and Elder Ballard told them basically addictions are not addictions. they are choices everytime that we as individuals give in to them. then he blessed everyone with an apostolic blessing with the ability to choose the right decision. Saturday morning we had stake conference and Bishop Causse was presiding. i did get to meet him and talked for quite a while with him and his wife. Over all it was great.
Now what is funny is Elder Rasband who spoke in the devotional was supposed to come instead of elder bowen but we heard he was "sick" so seeing him in the devotional was kinda funny. Didnt look sick to me. not that im complaining. Elder Ballard made a joke about it. Apparently the stake conference and everything was his idea and he didnt even show up.
Well i am doing great. i am happy. and im getting good at driving in the snow. haha with no hills getting around is easy. i dont know why people in utah even get into accidents when it snows.
Love Elder Salmon

Friday, December 6, 2013

"I'm happy and I love this work"

Dear Family and Friends,
Well we had an eventful week. It was a lot of fun and very exciting and also a little stressful. we had some problems in the district that the zone leaders and i had to clear up. a lot of the missionaries are struggling with one thing or another and we just showed our love and support for them and assured them that they are doing what the lord wants them to do. It was a very humbling expereince for me because each of them took place in the form of an interview which started witha  prayer and ended with us giving them a blessing. before going there i can remember just prayer and pleading with the Lord as to what he would have me say and do. and i was really looking for the love i should have for them. i knew if i didn't love them that i wouldnt be able to help them. i wouldnt say that i had the exact words put into my mouth but between the 3 of us we were really able to help each of them out. i never thought i would feel the spirit really strong in that meeting but it was just as strong there as any lesson ive been in. Probably because we were all bearing testimony and sharing scriptures. A very cool experience that i will always remember.
This week i went to dinner and we had Elk Stake! oh man they were good. i recommend them. and we also had rib and other great food. Man thanksgiving though was rough. 4 dinners and 2 dessert houses. i was ready to puke. but i found 1 great item in each house. If i had to combine all the house it would ahve been a great thanksgiving dinner. it was wierd a lot of people took pictures of us. 
So this week was great! we have 3 people on date! yes! for this weekend and next week. s it will be soo much fun geting them baptized. we have a lot of steps and its always a rusha dn super stressful. Danny pham is looking great. he was all excited about livig the commandments and said that keeping each of them should be really easy. his faith was surprising and we had a good laugh.
lily wiggins is all ready for her baptism and the bishop clear Matt lichtie to baptized his daughter. which was very surprising. Sot hose 3 look very solid for this month. we just need to find a few more people to try to get a bpatism on christmas. 
Things are looking up. im happy and i love this work. Merry christmas everybody. 
Love Elder Salmon

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

"Well it was a great week"

Dear Family and Friends,
Well i actually have things to talk about this week!!! It was a good Week. it was cold and it snowed and froze one night.
So i was thinking about "what are some of the weird things that utah people do." i found one. A lot of people don't drink the water here. because it is gross. especially in riverton. but i noticed that at dinner they will hand us bottled water to drink. haha i thought that was weird as i drank the bottled water.
The other day i gave this lady a blessing and i didnt know here. she was over at a member house and with her kid and she requested me to do the blessing. i was very troubled at first because i didnt know what to say or even why she wanted a blessing. It was very humbling when i realized i didnt need to know her. the Lord knows her. after the blessing i could now guess what her problems were and i felt like i understood her better.
Well it was a great week because we picked up 3 (really 4) investigators. i didnt want to count one of them because we dont have a return lesson any time soon. Anyways we taught them all and put all of them on date for the 7 or the 9th of December.
Danny Pham was my favorite lesson this week. He was Buddhist kinda and he is dating a member who wants to get married in the temple. and he has been coming to church for the last month and a half. We were talking and i asked him what he wanted to gain from meeting with us. he basically said i want to know what are the qualifications for being baptized. and i showed him. then i asked if he wanted to be baptized. he was very surprised that he could get baptized. When i told him what he needed he found out that is really simple. and we will be there to help him out. I was in the lesson on a split and i put him on date for 20 days later. i dont know why its so hard for people to invite. Baptism is soo necessary for people. we shouldn't hesitate to invite everyone.
We talk a 2 little girls as well. Lilly wiggins and Sierra litchie. both want to be baptized and parents are a little less active. so really we are teaching the parents and both are giving more and more support and are getting more active and the wards here do a  great job of fellow shipping when we invite them to. But we have to invite them, after we break the ice. when they should be doing it first.
We taught another lesson to a friend of the 2nd councilor in the stake presidency and he wanted us to slow down a little bit. But he needs to gain a testimony first of the book of mormon. thats all he needs. he just has a problem with the golden plates.
Last friday Elder Heath and i got to go to the temple and see scott get sealed to his parents! oh that was soo great! it just put everything into perspective. See all 18 kids walk in wearing white was a beautiful sight. The doctrine with the sealing was very interesting and got me thinking about the atonement and the house of israel. The adoption happens when we are sealed. thats what we all need! we need to be adopted. everyone needs to be sealed. and the first step to taht is baptism.
Last thing, the presiding bishopric has called for a special stake conference in our stake here and they will be presiding. not really sure why but it should be very exciting.
Love Elder Salmon

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

"Spirits are high"

Dear family and Friends,
So we had transfers! Guess what! i am staying haha and i have the same companion! and im still DL. everything is the same! haha but we got 2 new people in the district. its cool. I guess the Lord wants me to find teach and baptize here. So i have mixed feelings. this is the second transfer ever that i wasn't either being trained or training someone. feels like ive been training my whole mission. oh wait thats because i was. i know this stake really well so working it is really easy for me. the hard part is i have to wait on everything. WE have 4 NM lessons set up and i am very excited for that. will be the first NI we pick up in 7 weeks. and we get 4 Inv. all in one. The lord blesses us. They brought in 2 new zone leaders. So lots of changes but i do like both of them. i am now the second oldest missionary (time wise) in the zone. elder hatch is the oldest and there's a 3 way tie for second place in age and im one of them...
So Elder Bennett the redhead elder that was with me on the Airplane ride from seattle to salt lake is in my district. and we got a new sister. sister williams i dont really know her but i wll get to in this transfer. So far the spirits are high and the faith is high in our area. we have had a few miracles, like our lessons being set up, and some inv. have decided to get Married in the summerhills stake! Man the worst thing is that the bishops are the ones slowing them down.
Well hopefully i have more to tell you about next week. tomorrow in district mtg i am having a scavenger hunt to keep them excited. so i hope it goes well!
Love elder Salmon

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

"Fellowshipping is very important"

Dear Family and Friends,
Soo this past week was not too bad. not the best when it comes to missionary work but hey im doing my best. 
on monday we went golfing and i had a lot of fun. im still not very good but we had golf carts and everything was free except for the cart. i paid 3.50 for it. i actually hit on the green on a par 3 but i didnt birdie. I need more practice and i need consistent clubs. and someone to teach me a little bit more. Today i think we are just going to play vball, bball and a game like mafia in the church building. So its cool.
Well heath keeps saying im going to leave so i did my very best to leave him with some inv. this week we should pick up 2. one is a Ward mission process!!! those are way to few and far in between. Those are members setting up lessons for us. i wish people would just set them up and then invite us to the lessons. we will make sure one of us gets there. Anyways i was soooo excited when he called me! even though i set it up. i saw the NM at church asked the member to invite him and then he did it. Too bad people cant do that on their own. thats why i feel like a facilitator because people dont do these things if i dont ask because members get scared. i dont know what of because rejection is a part of life. we just need to get use to it. But we do have to ask everyone. 
Anyways i was riding my bike on a back road in my area. it was dark and i really could see very well. i came up on a house that had an unusually bright light. it completely blinded me and i couldnt see the path at all. at that moment i had 2 options to hit the breaks and stop and go back or i could continue riding at that speed even though i couldn't see anything. i chose the the more daring and i kept riding. i had traveled the road before and i knew it wasnt that rough and i would be okay. and i was i made it through and everything was fine. I had been thinking lately about the light of the gospel. To most of us it helps us find the path and allows us to see. But to those in darkness it can blind you. and i really thought of the LA and the NM that are brought into the light it can be very scary. It takes a lot of faith to keep going by yourself. but if they had someone who has traveled the road before it would be much easier. Fellow shipping is very important. 
Love Elder Salmon

Friday, November 1, 2013

October 28

i really dont have anything more to tell you today... i havent done anything. no new inv. and we are not teaching anyone...
But dont be discouraged because im not!!! i really am happy because im clean. im doing my best and i have done my very best to teach the people here in south jordan. Everyone just says no. sooo what do i do  but keep working and have faith in the lord.
i get to go to georgettes baptism in november in the other mission! hehe shes pretty solid. But really though lifes good. We have one more full week then transfers. ive been doing a ton of splits with the Zls this transfer... not sure what that means but we are going golfing today with them. ill probably lose because im terrible.  but this is probably my weekly letter. sorry im also kinda lazy today. 
With love elder salmon

October 21

Dear family and friends, well not much is happening here in south jordan. This week we have a meeting with the area authority and he will be training the whole ward councils on how to work properly. i think he is also going to role play in front of everyone and im pretty sure he will use us in the role play. im a little nervous because im not sure what i will have to do. It is staring to get cold here and i was thinking i pretty much have everything i need for the winter. i might buy a another sweater, one thats more like a cardigan just because i can now and it would be a little warmer than the argyle sweaters taht i have.
So georgettes baptism got pushed back by the west missionaries to the 6th of nov. i hope i can go. 
This month i should have 2 sealings that i might be able to attend. Elder Kulu and i taught jen and ron nichols and they are scheduled to be sealed this month!!! soo excited to see them. he is in the EQ presidency right now. so im very glad for that experience to teach him. And Scott will be sealed to his parents! its going to be sooo good! i love the temple!
Not much has happened we are looking to pick up two new inv. this week. pray for us.
Love elder Salmon

October 14

Dear Family and Friends,
Well, its only been 5 days. i could get use to having a pday every few days. but thats not going to happen. We just passed our half way mark on this transfer. times goes by to fast. it has been a long time since we have found a new investigator and we are really struggling with that district wide. tomorrow we have a special district mtg on finding. lots of participation. i delegated out the training among the district. Also during tht time we will be having interviews with the mission president so the Aps will be attending our mtg. We got to go to the temple last thursday! WOW!! thats all i have to say. this made a lot of my impressions and guesses way clearer. i loved it! it was like a movie! but real! and i learned doctrine! all the things that i wanted.
So georgette is supposed to be getting baptised this Sunday. we are running into some complications from the west mission. i know it is the best situation for her to be baptized as well as confirmed in her home ward and so we contacted the missionaries over there. however what they want to do could very well cause a lot of conflict so we are working it out so that she has the best situation. i will make sure the baptism will happen this sunday either here or in her home ward i dont care. she has a very strong testimony. she knows that if she joins there will be conflict in her family and she is willing to go through that to be baptized. i am impressed.
well i am alive and well. 
With love Elder Salmon

October 10

Dear family and Friends,
Well, we have Pday on thursday just for this week. so i will email all of you on monday again. I am still in south jordan and coming to a close on training elder heath. we have 3 more weeks together. Conference was Great! man it was soo good. i love every second of it! we got to go to 3 session with permission form Zls, and i actually didnt see anyone i knew there. except for sister Gee. that was cool. i have missed a lot of my friends and try to stay in contact with them as much as possible. i am kinda in a rush this Pday because we are going to the temple and i need to make sure i have time. ill write more on monday. I am doing well and healthy.
Georgette our only investigator is progressing really well. she know the spirit is around when we teach her. She has made very many comments and i am very hopeful that she will be baptized on the 20th. that is her date and our last lesson with her was very good. we taught the gospel and hit hard on keeping the sabbath day holy. that is our only concern with her. 
Well lifes good.
Love elder SAlmon

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Recap



Dear family and friends,
So since ive com here to south jordan i seen even another side of missionary work that i didnt know. The stake of which i am laboring in is the country park stake. It is a lot of fun and i really like it. im getting to know a lot of really cool people. however the teaching pool isnt as full as i would have liked it to be. we work really hard all day and hope for referrals from the members. the sad part is we still have to go to them to get the referrals. i have not had a member call me and give me a referral. i feel like a facilitator. i find the names, i find the fellowshippers and i commit them to do what i want them to do, like invite your friend to church! whent hey fail then i contact them and it never is as good as if a friend does it.
ive had two companions here in south Jordan, eler lila who is from Albania he was a lot older than me but he was still a handful. they left us together for one transfer then i took over and trained elder heath here. All this time they also wanted me to train the other elders around me. I was freaked out at first. i didnt know what to do. i feel way more comfortable with it now and i actually kinda enjoy it but i'm more tired than i use to be. here in south jordan i had the great opportunity of teaching and baptizing Robin Wimmer and reactivating her husband Richard. they are a cool pair and like to go camping and hunting. he had the longest beard the whole time while i was teaching them. He had to shave it the other day and i saw them at a store and i didnt recognize him and almost thought she was cheating. it was that bad. Also i had a great opportunity of teaching Scott walker. he is from mainland china and didnt speak any English and still really doesnt. we used a translator from temple square sister chen and her comp sister roffler then after transfers sister snow. It was slow teaching through the translator and helping him understand because all the other missionaries were out less than 3 months. so i was easily the most experienced of us all. He really understand more than i thought he would. He is a very loving kid and he will play hand games with you all the time. Tennis, and mercy and other such games. he really loves the interaction. he owns me at rock paper scissors. After those two we had to drop most of our other investigators because they weren't really progressing. And right now we are relying on the lord to help us find more.
The other day, we had 4 suits be given to elder heath and i! and these are designer suits! man they look good and luckily they are the perfect size. im not going to worry about buying any more. I cant believe how nice some of these members are. he probably gave us about 3000 dollars worth in suits or more. They all came from Nordstrom. This general conference is going to be good i can tell. i didnt get any tickets to go. i think we got less tickets than we normally get because i thought for sure i would go this time. Oh well. we will watch the conference with members and our investigators when we find some this week.
I love being a leader and having to learn to receive revelation. It does get easier and easier. Priesthood blessings are easier and training and teaching is so much easier. missions are truely inspired. i feel like i had learned so much yet i see so many flaws in myself as well. The scriptures are so valuable. i cant believe how much more i can receive from reading them. they are a gold mine for information and especially when you have the spirit with you. and i can see why studying them with a question is helpful. i have come to love serving. i can genuinely ask to serve people and mean it when i saw i want to. Charity is probably the hardest attribute to gain and i have really learned to love people. i love those i serve. I am still prideful but i think im less prideful. Missions are hard and they are to humble us and im grateful for all these experiences. I have come to know for myself that joseph smith is a true prophet and either the book of mormon was written by god or the devil because of what is claims. and i know it is of god because of all the good it has done for me. i love my mission and i love the gospel.
Elder Salmon

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

South Jordan has been pretty good to me

Dear family and friends
Hello everyone! Well this transfer has come to a close and we are getting transfer calls tonight. sorry i dont know where i am going. So far south jordan has been pretty good to me. Although we get way too much food and not enough exercise. We just had a baptism this last weekend. Scott walker got baptized! yeah! although he is the first one to come up crying... he was scared when he got into the water and he calmed down enough to let the father do the prayer and just as he was going down he freaked out and the father just put huim under. haha and he swallowed water and im sure he was a little angry. But after he changed he was all smiles. and the confirmation we did after the sacrament meeting at church because we didnt want him to freak out. All in all it wasa  good day. But the few hours before the baptism we were frantically getting the clothes, filling the font and getting the program to print. man and everything went wrong. which i really wasnt that surprised about because Satan does this with every baptism. nothing goes smoothly for a baptism.
Georgette one of our better investigators wasnt able to come to church this last week. Because she was sick her boss made her work on sunday. its soo frustrating because her boss is mormon and he is making it harder for us to help her. The last lesson we had with her was amazing! we taught the plan of salvation and it was great. She was understanding so much and scriptures to help explain were just coming to me and made the lesson really powerful. At one point she said "i need to bring my husband to this!" so i feel really good about her but the things of the world could delay it.
So that lady that i OYM'ed and i was really excited about turned out to be really disappointing. all they wanted us to do was bible bash with them. but as they were preparing i was praying so that the lord would help me to exlpain things so that i would not have to bash. i was getting into too many here and it kills the spirit. every question they asked i was able to answer it while teaching principles from the lessons taht are in preach my gospel. The best part was they could have no objections to what i taught because it was truth. Every time he tried tog et me worked up it didnt work and we left on "good." he invited us back but i doubt we ill go back until they humble themselves.

So Mom you will e happy about this ive decided that i need a good snack and now i eat celery and peanut butter every night for my snack and i actually really really like it. so thats going to be my snacks from now on.
Well lifes good.
Love Elder Salmon

september 16

Dear family and friends,
Hello everyone! im here in south jordan and this is the last week of the transfer. This week we have a lesson with a family and i am stoked! We might pick up a whole family of 5! which would be legit because ive never taught a whole family before. That lesson is on saturday so pray that they will be there. We had some sad but also some happy news this week. We had to drop an investigator because he was not willing to continue to keep his commitments. He had a confirmation from the spirit but he didn't want to admit it and follow the promptings that he received. It was very sad. But i think he will be baptized on his own terms. He just felt a lot of pressure when there really wasn't any at all. The good news is that we picked up a new investigator. her name is Georgette and shes Hispanic but very smart. she had a couple of degrees and she told us she was fed up with the catholic church. She definitely felt the spirit and accepted the date of baptism on the 5 of oct. i forgot it was conference but hey waht better time than then. hers husband is going to be a problem. he says he supports her but he might make it hard to have lessons with her.
Scott is also getting prepared to be baptized this saturday! im really stoked. He just needs to pass the interview which im a little nervous for because getting his comprehension is difficult. he has some mental problems but not much but some days he will talk a lot and some days he likes to joke around a lot. We will be teaching him for a long time because we will have to prepare him for the temple and for the priesthood. It was very touching because scott had to write the chinese government and tell them how hes doing and he wrote that he had a great family who loves him and he has friends. and he wrote elder heaths and my names for his friends. it was very touching but it also means we need to find him friends so he doesn't feel bad when we leave.

Other than that not much happened. we had stake conference and elder russel m nelson spoke and so did Elder packer. His talk was very interesting because he showed a talk that he gave a while ago. it was a video and it was very erratic. i could tell what he really wanted us to learn. i felt like he just threw out nuggets of information.
We had a good week. All is well. not like the scripture though.
Love Elder Salmon

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

"We had some interesting weather lately"

Dear family and friends,
Well we had some interesting weather lately. i have actually really enjoyed it myself but i feel bad for the rest of the district and missionaries who have to walk or bike because it has been rainy. and thunderstorms and everything. its a very wierd cycle because it will be hot and warm and no clouds in the sky then around ohhh 4pm the clouds will role in rain for 30 min and thunder and lightning dancing around and after those 30 min its all sunny. and whts worse is that its humid now. so what ever. We have been biking lately and everyday we hurry back to the car when we see the clouds and barely make it to the car and into cover right before the rain comes. we get pretty lucky.
This week was alright i guess. not as many lessons as last week. Scott walker looks really good. he is all excited to be baptized. The only concern is that we want to teach him enough so that he will also be prepared to go to them temple with his parents to be sealed with them and the chinese sister that is helping us leave in october. Im not too worried about it becasue the lord provides a way for us to help his children. where someone want to come unto the gospel the lord helps them. ive definitely seen that with scott. He is soo funny and has a great personality. i learn lots about him every time we teach. when he lived in the orphanage he was in charge of 3 other kids. he got them ready for the day and put them to bed. he will fit right in with his family of 18 kids. there are so many kids that are very young and need lots of help.
I called bud this week and he went on a rant for about 45 minutes talking about how he want to be taught and go to church but with everything that has gone on in his life he doesnt see how he could do anything. he sys he has no time nd he is only focused on his family and getting them all safe. he told me his problems and they are pretty serious but i still think if he made time for the gospel it would really help him.
We picked up a new investigator this week. We got a media referral from a missionary in california i think and he referred us to his sister and husband. he is Presbyterian and cant really see how the LDS church and the bible work together. i talked with him for a while and he doesnt seem to have any faith. ill probs go back for one more lesson and drop hinm if hes not willing to put the bom tot the test.
Zack hales is also struggling. he was supposed to be baptized this saturday but his dad has been telling him not too. His parents are divorced and they are in a custody battle. the mom who is a member and active is going for full custody. he is also struggling with faith. he has had a lot of prayers get answered and im really counseling with the lord as to what more i can do.
the work moves on and the end is coming. Lifes good.
Elder Salmon

Sunday, September 8, 2013

"Anyone want to send me stamps???"

Dear family and friends,
Happy labor day! where we celebrate working by not working! So i want to share an experience that i had not too long ago i hope i haven't shared it before. So we came out of a lesson and we were late to correlation meeting with the other WML (i think i did share this) and i saw a lady on the other side of the street doing yard work. i knew i should talk with her but i was late and the meeting would be ending in 30 minutes. I had a guilty feeling because i was ignoring the spirit so i went over there and we talked about church and families and about her neighbor who was trying to get active and into the temple. She said we could come back in two weeks and share our message. well we went back and we have a lesson set up for the 21st. its a long ways out but i could have missed it had i thought talking about missionary work was more important than actually doing missionary work.
So we went mountain biking last monday! it was legit! im not very good but i really enjoyed it. only fell once. and it wasnt a bad fall. But i had a  good time zooming down the mountain side taking hard turns and getting air off jumps.
The other day we had a lesson with a family there name was story... very interesting family because hes a member less active, she was a convert but then asked to have her named removed. we went in to teach her and she was just looking to bible bash. and im still a little hot headed, but then i remembered my training and i asked if she was willing to put all that aside and read the BOM and find out if it is true. She said no. but Since the WML set up each lesson we are still going back...??? don't know why. But the husband the Less active who totally believes its all true was fighting against us as well...??? don't get it.
We are teaching scott 3 times a week  now. but the sisters can now come here to south jordan to teach so now we dont have to go down there every time. hes is learning soo much and progressing much faster than i thought he would. 
And i was just thinking are there pictures of my baptism??? it might be good if i had that. Im doing really well just pluggin along doing my district leader stuff and training elder heath. Oh im almost out of stamps. anyone want to send me stamps???
Take care everyone love you Elder Salmon