January 13th

Well, it was really hard but I made it through the winter here. That week of 40 degrees was awful. It's nice to be back in the 60s.

 It is amazing to me the people I have met who have come to mean so much to me. Not because of who we are but because we are brought together by the gospel and bonded by the Spirit.

We have a baptismal date for one of our investigators who has been attending church for YEARS, just can't legalize her marriage until her husband goes to Mexico to legalize his first divorce. He is going in February so she can be baptized in march! Yay!

Something really funny happened with another investigator. We went over. He hadn't read. AGAIN. But he had a bunch of deep questions that he wanted us to answer. So our attempt to read with him turned into a super deep discussion of the Plan of Salvation. We were trying to show him the truths in the Book of Mormon, but he still has a hard time flat-out accepting it. He even said, "I know the Spirit can't teach me your doctrine until I study it. I just had a lot of work this week..." An hour later after a lot of really awesome spiritual moments, he said, "When I get to heaven I am going to take a pen and paper and I am going to ask God a whole lot of questions." My mind lit up and my mouth opened and out came, "Well when you get there He is going to say, "I gave you all the answers in the Book of Mormon, but you didn't read it!"" He laughed and laughed and laughed. I love that man. But holy cow. Can you just read already?

hahaha one more thing. My companion is still getting used to door approaches and she likes to stand behind me and let me do it. At one door I finally decided she needed to just get "on the horse" so to speak and do it, so I made her go ring the bell, while I stood in the narrow sidewalk between the hedge and bush so that she would be in front of me. Bad idea. She panicked and I got plowed by a scared Tongan. It was really funny.

Have a great week!
Hermana Carter