Wednesday, September 25, 2013

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

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