New Comp!

(a letter from June 18)

So I have a new comp! His name is Elder Gonzalez and he is SHORT! He doesn’t even get to my shoulder. He is really cool though. We joke and have fun but we are working and he likes that since he just finished training with his dad and they hardly did anything. He is going for 4 months in the mish and he is already trunky. I’ll break him of that.

In the morning today, we were with a member to wash our clothes when we got a phone call. "Elders! I have a reference for you but you have to head out NOW!" "Umm.... Ok." I t turns out that a sister in our ward didn’t have our number and ended up calling the assistants about her sister who was at her house at THAT moment, We got there and the questions began about the Priesthood and the organization of the church and why we don’t use veils to pray and why the woman can dress so casually and just.... Huh.

Well we started with a prayer and we started at the beginning. God. And that was a HUGE subject. She knew that Jehovah was Christ and that’s what I didn’t understand about her questions. The problem was that she didn’t know that God the Father existed. She kept saying that we were like the Catholics because we believed in the Trinity and I was like, ".... Meh?" Then we talked about the fact that Christ is the Son of SOMEONE and she said, "Wait.... so IS a third person there?" And the heavens opened and light shown down from heaven to grace her with understanding!

To end the lesson, she said she couldn’t pray because she didn`t have her veil. Well... she started to... then she just said, "Is it really ok to pray without a veil?" "Yes it really is. How else can you pray at all times like the Lord has commanded?" She got it. We put a return appointment Wed and Fri and a commitment to read the B.o.M. and attend church on Sun. Dolores. She will be a baptism.... Just not in our ward because she lives JUST out of the area. She is really great though and I will be keeping tabs on her.

The division of the mission has finally come... almost. Haha. I am going to miss Pres. Reeves a TON! But I know that I will love Pres. Christenson as well. We will be meeting him on the 29th of this month. One more week. EXCITING!!!!

I love you Mom!!! I hope that all is well there. Tell Elder Orr that I said "HI" and also to the Ralphs! Till next week.

Elder Heath