"Well our week was ok"

Dear family and friends,

Well our week was okay. We had an interesting experience with a young lady. Our neighbor the meldrums have a daughter who is 15 and she has a friend she has always been asking us to teach. So we went over and talked to her and her parents and asked her to call her friend right there and set up an appointment for last Saturday. we were very excited and the lesson went text book well. she had lots of questions, the spirit was there she accepted a date and was going to go to church the enxt day, she cried during the lesson and everything. the spirit was very strong. The investigator is named alyssa. Anyways about 4 in the morning on sunday she called her mom and left and went home and we havent heard anything since. We talked to the fellow shipper and she told us that she overheard alyssa was meeting with us to try and "stump us." little did she know we answered all her questions and the spirit was there. i think she was genuine when she accepted the date but im almost positive it scared her when the spirit was that strong. she panicked. She has not lived in a great living accommodations and her mom is not setting a great example. I will be interested to see if she comes back and wants to learn more. Regardless she felt the spirit and we did our job.

We are supposed to pick up a new inv. on Wednesday but he had to move last minute to west jordan. we have just had that kind of luck this transfer. But hey what can you do but keep chugging along. At least we didn't have to heal a finger this week. We are teaching quite a few Less actives and they are both going very well. They are coming back to church and keeping there commitments. i should get content with that because im called to baptize people but it does give me joy.

Danny pham who elder heath and i taught and baptized in december is already teaching every other week in gospel principles class. he is doing very well. He is getting the gospel and soaking everything in. We probably wont need to do all the new member lessons. He is progressing and getting the priesthood soon and i love seeing people like him progress in the gospel. and its nothing anything that ive done its just ive helped him and it makes my efforts worth it.

Love Elder Salmon

P.S. this past week we have been showing up to places right on time to help. One of our other neighbors the Clowards are really struggling. they are Less active but we showed up one day because i felt like we should see how they are doing and it was morning time and bro. cloward (who has severe dementia) was on the ground basically naked... We had to pick him up and help get him dress and into a wheel chair. apparently some days he cant walk and his brain is fried. he doesnt make sense when he talks and doesn't remember anyone. Im glad we were there to help. She will call us now when she needs us! she hasn't called yet since Thursday but i know the wards a lot more involved now.