Great Dane - Thinks He's a Lap Dog

 We hello there, it certainly has been a blast here in Airway Heights. we have been doing the work, and I have been healing from my accident 2 weeks ago. It should be fully healed this Tuesday but some dumb accidents have been happening and I keep hurting my shoulder in one way or another. 

It's not that I'm not careful, its more like when a 2 year old wants you to lift them up and they start by grabbing your injured arm and pulling real hard, I don't know why but I seem to be accident prone when little kids are involved.

Let's get down to business...... 

Not that there are huns or anything but we like to be serious when it comes to the work. 

So we have been trying to get a lesson with this guy who works in the hotel of the local casino. He is a super cool dude, but apparently when we knocked on his door he had his headphones on and didn't hear us - we had even called his cell.

We Made a Castle

So since we missed his appointment, we decided to knock on other doors in the apartment complex, and the last one we knocked on  - a nice lady answered the door. We told her that we missed an appointment so we decided to knock on her door instead, and she let us right in. She had dated a member a long time ago and was uninterested in converting, but that did not stop us from having a pleasant chat with her. She even said we could come back again.

We got a referral for somebody's neighbor in this maze-like apartment complex. After much trial, error and turning around we found the right place. We knocked on the door and the guy who answered was young, but he smiled and said come right in Elders. (I don't know if you know but when you just meet somebody and you know they aren't members, but they know our missionary titles it's a little unsettling.) They turned out to be a nice family. A young couple who just moved in and the man whose name is Josiah was a S.E.R.E candidate for the Air Force (a S.E.R.E is a man who trains people on how to survive anywhere on the world - the ultimate wilderness survival guide) After some small talk we found them quite knowledgeable in the Bible and they went to a church regularly, but unlike most people we meet like that they asked actual sincere questions (usually we get Anti-ed by people like that) After a while they said we could come back but Josiah was about to head off to his 6 month training, but we can still teach his wife who is more than happy to talk again.

Sunset from the Canada Fires

There is a part member family who just decided to have their 12 year old daughter get baptized, so now we are having lessons once a week at their home. And this girl loves meeting with us. She is super excited to learn more about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and her mother is very helpful and encouraging about the whole thing. Despite how awesome it is, there are still some distractions in the lessons, like two massive dogs that love attention and will not leave you alone if you ignore them. There is also a son who loves to give complicated examples of what we are teaching. (It is impolite for us to tell him to be quiet, but he seriously needs to stop!)

Another Sunset

I gave a talk in church yesterday, and I was very nervous about the usual; will it be too long?  will it be too short? will they like it? or did I do good enough?  But after thinking

 about it for a little while, I was giving a talk on faith, and I had no faith that it was going to go well, so I prayed silently for the help and confidence that I needed to deliver a successful talk I prayed for more Faith. 

In my talk I quoted Omni 1:6 

6 "For the Lord would not suffer, after he had led them out of the land of Jerusalem and kept and preserved them from falling into the hands of their enemies, yea, he would not suffer that the words should not be verified, which he spake unto our fathers, saying that: Inasmuch as ye will not keep my commandments ye shall not prosper in the land."

Ghost Dog

In this scripture I explained all the impossible and crazy circumstances that Nephi and his father Lehi went through, and it was by faith they were able to go through with any of it.

 The many promises of the Lord were a comfort to them in their trying times, and in my hour of need I was also comforted, because with faith we can do anything with Heavenly Father's help.

Many and much thanks for your support and reading my emails, to show my gratitude I will send you some pictures of me.