Good week

Dear Family and Friends,

Well since we are done with the holiday weekend this past week was so much better. the week started off pretty slow as far as contacting and referrals and lessons. that was probably because we have meetings every single day from Tuesday until Friday. I am not a fan of meetings and some of these meeting were very long. We were mostly discussing MLS couples. Thats member leadership support couples. they are every missionaries dream or should be. they help us work effectively and teach people who are not progressing fast enough for us to teach them. so a few people we are working with we would love to give to a MLS couple but we dont have on in our stake. So we rely on the ward council which unfortunately isnt as reliable. So our meetings were all about working effectively with the,m.

I have some bad news preston didnt get baptized this last weekend. his father got called out to work in another state and is going to be gone for a few weeks. so we wont have his baptism until later. hopefully the 26th of this month. However Sara is looking really good for this saturday! we are very excited for her. she is committed and dedicated and we have a great support net around her. we made sure she has visiting and home teachers and everyone has met her on ward council. 

We picked up a new investigator on saturday. a 10 year old boy. he is a foster boy and he just got permission to get baptized and taught by the missionaries so we taught him twice, once on saturday and once on sunday. he is a sharp kid and accepted a baptismal date of august 9th. hopefully we can teach him enough as his family goes out of town for two weeks. i hate vacations! haha man soo many people have too much going on in there lives that they cant slow down and feel the spirit. i think as a people we need to commit to doing less so that we dont always have to be on the go. his nae is tristan and he comes from a tough family. 4 siblings and there are 4 different fathers for the 5 kids. i feel bad for him. 

Since guy called us we havent heard anything from him. he doesnt return our calls and infact our calls go straight to voicemail. we dont know whats up. 

This past week ive been so tired. i have just been crashing. i fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow. But also in our spare time elder northrop and i have been planning minute to win it. and today we have to buy everything and set it all up and just have fun. im excited but a littel stressed getting everything done. Our zone will probably hit 9 baptism this month. Next month we are projecting 8 already. The work always progresses here. there is always something to do. always people to teach. 

This transfer comes to an end this week. we get transfer emails on tuesday and then we get to call everyone. people alwyas get nervous around this time. Personally i love it because i get to mess with all of them. and they all try to bribe us and ask us to call them first and all that. its very funny. everyone wants to be our friend right about now. Of course we just call people according to the order that we see it. 

Fun story, saturday night we got done with everything we needed to and we decided to help our land lady with her fish. so we ewent into her pond and went about cathcing 8-10 fish with a net and flashlight. haha it was a lot of fun. dont worry we didnt go swimming. the pond was like a foot deep and only 5 feet accross. its more like a river fountain thingy. anyways i enjoy it. 

Connor is also going vey well. our lesson with him was really good. we decided to focus on the ordinace of baptism and the lesson went really smooth. he wants to be baptized. no date yet but we know he felt the spirit as we taught him about that sacred ordinance.

well gotta go. hope this is a little longer.

Elder Salmon

Progress does come

Hello family and Friends!

so this was the week of the 4th... wasnt the best week to do missionary service. a lot of people went out of town so finding people home was terrible. It was a little frustrating but then i just thought about enduring to the end... of the day. haha friday and saturday were both bad. but we had blessings from working hard. we did get a lot done for our investigators to prepare them for there upcoming baptisms. We taught preston twice and we had good contact with sara. Also a tender mercy, while at church yesterday guy called us. We havent heard from him in almost 2 weeks and he called an was at church and said he wanted to meet again. he also said he wanted to take on the challenge of quitting smoking. he had already quit alcohol and was going to work on coffee and cigarettes.  TYhat made the week worth it knowing we have another appointment. 

This week are are trying to find new people so we are visiting random members and setting up appointments to teach them the message of the restoration to look for new investigators. so far we havent got any referrals but its gives usa  good excuse just to get to know certain families. Thats where the work is. letting them members know who we are so that they feel comfortable referring there friends to us. 

We are still having a really hard time teaching connor. the sister at temple square are not staying in good contact with us. they cancel lessons and set them up without us knowing so we are not even involved that much. We just need to be patient. the lord with make sure this young man gets the knowledge he needs. 

We also were teaching a less active family and have for a while now. this last lesson the father prayed and it actually felt like he was praying to god. it was amazing! so progress does come but sometimes its very slow. 

Well gotta go. 

Love Elder Salmon

I know the Lord will bless us

Dear family and Friends,

Well we didn't have as good a week as we did this week as last week. We didnt pick up any new investigators or anything and we still have had no contact with guy... he has basically fallen off the face of the planet. Because we have sicked members on him to find him and it hasnt worked. So its a little frustrating because we want to help him quit smoking but he wants to smoke. soo thats a conflict of interest. OH well. we keep praying for him and hope we can meet with him again. 

We had a meeting with president this week and we learned all about leadership priciples. we also discussed the unwritten order of things. i really liked that. i love learning from our mission president. he is very smart and has some great incite. 

We also had our interviews with him this past week. they were great as always.

Sorry i dont have that much to talk about this week. we have been really busy this week. I feel like we never have enough time to contact all we need to contact but then i am soo tired at the end of the day. Tomorrow we have a meeting which i will be presiding at. it should be good. we will be training a lot on the responsibilities of the junior and senior companion and also how to plan. We really have a great zone and some great missionaries here in herriman. This next 4th of july we are not doing anything. it will be a normal work day and we will do our normal procedures. except we are allowed to go to all the parties and stuff and meet people. elder northrop and i will come up with some clever ideas to get missionary work done. 

We are continuing to teach connor over skype with the temple square sisters helping us. its a very spiritual experience but it also tries me because we have to break every single principle down as far as it will go and teach him that way. And we dont get the aid of pictures because he is blind. i do love this challenge though. i know the Lord will bless us. 

Love elder Salmon

PS Sara is definitely getting baptized and so is preston nell! haha yes!