The best week in a long time

Dear Family and Friends,

well we had a very eventful week. it was probably the best week i have had as far as missionary work in a long long time. we taught a lot of lessons and did a lot of work. Since we conver 12 wards there is soo much work to be done and i feel bad because we can';t give adequate time to each of the wards. they really need to split this stake as far as missionaries go. we need another set here. WE are teaching 7 people right now. Jugling all the things we need to do for these investigators takes up most of our time. but somehow we are still picking up new investigators. this is the 10 week where we have found at least 1 new investigator. 

So this week we went on 2 exchanges. 1 with the assistant and 1 with a district leader. and we have another exchange this week with our other district leader. They were both very good exchanges, and it was nice to learn and then also to teach missionary work. Although i dont really like to exchange because i hate packing up. sooo thats while i stayed both times. elder northrop has been getting to know other areas haha. 

It was a good weekend though. I was thinking of hannah and kevin all weekend and i even got my tie last monday so that i could wear it last friday. i hope you enjoyed the picture of me in my tie. i had my landlady send that for me so that you could enjoy it. There was also a parade/ fair friday night and saturday morning. and it was right across the street from where we live. it was not good. i wanted to go soo bad, haha but obviously i wouldnt. the music was super loud and it kept us up at night. but i did enjoy the fireworks saturday night. they even started and ended before we had to go to bed so it was all good fun. we watched it from the porch of our house. so that was nice.

Sunday was good as well. we were expecting 5 investigators at church but only 3 went.:( thats not bad but also not that good either. but funny story at church. Sitting next to our investigators there was this awesome family in front of us. they were so nice, and they have young kids that were fun. towards the end of the meeting i was listen looking down at the ground and i see this liquid pour down from the seat in front of us. it came between the crack in the cushioned bench seat. i was going to tell them that they had juice spilling when i saw the mom just grab her forehead in frustration and probably embarrassment. i saw the exchange of whispers and lip reading as i saw the mom tell her husband that there child just peed there pants and also the bench and the ground beneath it! hahaha. felt soo bad for them but it also was pretty nasty and it smelled the rest of the mtg.  

Spiritual story of the week- We picked up a new investigator sunday night. Conner Green is an adopted son from china. almost the exact same situation as scott walker. except he is blind. so same situation we don't speak mandrin.  we took hijm to temple square to have the sister talk to him. the sister that translated for us was from the same city as connor and even spoke the same dialect. The Lord is mindful of all his children. Connor is so much like chirst already. so loving and kind. he loves everyone and does not have the bias of looking at them. he does not judge. The lord knew he needed this sister to help him. so of course i called president chambers and got the okay for her to continue to help us teach him in the home. President and i are close like that. haha. 

Today is Pday because we are going to the temple. i will enjoy that. i love the temple. i cant wait until i can attend more often when i am home. 

Well gotta go. 

LOve Elder Salmon

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY

Dear Family and Friends,

HAPPY FATHERS DAY DAD! i have the best dad. and i didn't get to call him yesterday soo everyone gets to here about it. D&C 29:47-48. i am grateful for the lessons that i learn. and that i i am accountable and i was taught by m y father to make good decisions.

So we had a really good week. i at least really enjoyed it. We taught more lessons then we normally do and just made some good contact and received some great referrals the work here is very much alive. i wish the members of this stake knew that. i wish they could see all the people around them perishing in unbelief. it is a real problem and we need to be more charitable as a church.

So i am going to update on the people i have met that know people back at home. Mom and dad i dont know if you know the babcocks? they know you. they lived near president chambers. anyways they live in this stake. Also when i was at temple square i met a sister briggs... yeah so i dont remember her at all but she knows me and claire. apparently she lived in hampton woods or herritage hills and was in the other ward i think. soo some clearity on her would be nice, i just really dont remember her. which doesnt mean much because heck i dont remember much from that long ago. Oh and i much the angus family. she is a sister to brother olson! she is in my stake as well! haha so that was cool. Soo yeah these are the people i have met here. 

Soo teaching Sara! oh my goodness! she basically accepted a date! we have been working soo hard teaching her and trying to gether to pray and read and come to church and now she is telling us she is inviting people to her baptism... just dont know what day yet. she hates dates but she is soo awesome. Umm we picked up a new inv this week and we taught 2 lessons and he is on date. yes the lord blesses us. i am grateful for that. Our polygamist inv. (guy) is also doing great. we gave him a paper he needxs to fill out to be baptized and i think he really wants to do it. we had a great lesson with him and a high priest we took. guy was super old but added a lot of power to the testimony. Things are going well here. i am super busy and i love it. The Church is true. 

Its been actually rather cold lately and i dont mind it at all. i could use some rain though... we never get a good rain storm here... not ubntil late august then it will thunder which are really amazing storms. well i got to get going. got to pick up the mial and i have to drive 30 mins to the mission office. that part i dont like about being a ZL. Love you all.

Love elder salmon

I love it

Dear Family and Friends,

Well we had transfers and i get to stay in my area!!!! finally i am soo happy to stay in this area. Elder foster got transferred to riverton as a zone leader in the YSA stake and i get to take over this area as ZL 1 in the Herriman zone. So i am actually really excited because now i get to do things how i would like to. of course i always take into consideration my companions opinions. I love it. we have such greats elders and sisters that came in. they are all pretty cool and seem like great missionaries. Our zone is doing pretty good and could always get better though. So elder Northrop is a lot more excited about working out in the morning than elder foster was so we have started doing a variety of things in the morning. one oif them is hiking. we have trails and mountains in our area and hiking always ets my heart rate going. we also jog and do a jump training exercise. and its super hard.

So i have been mildly freaking out with the more responsibilities that i get now but it is a lot of fun. i realize i just dont have time to waste time. if i want to have a successful area i need to do the most effective things while i have time to proselyte. so its really helping me to focus on the most important things to do. We picked up a new investigator and he is a polygamist and he accepted a baptismal date! haha soo we have to go throught the first presidency if he wants to be baptised. its pretty cool. i dont know how solid he is but he does want to change his life so we will see how this goes. Last monday we went hikinh it was soo much fun. dont know what we are going to do today for pday but im sure we will come up with something. 

Well gotta go. 

Love Elder Salmon