Golden...

10/12/10...Dear Peeps,


How is life? Out here it is good. Things are moving along nicely. Elder Frampton and I have been working hard and making progress. It's slower than I would like, but it all comes in the Lord's time. Patience definitely is a virtue I've had to work on the last few months. However, I know that compared to a few weeks ago things are MUCH better. This transfer is flying by. We're already in week 4. Oh, before I forget, I didn't write yesterday because it was Columbus Day and the library wasn't open. We got permission from President Barry to write today.
We are starting to really build our investigator pool back up. We've been teaching a young lady named Donna. She is really...interesting. We will have amazing lessons with her and commit her to stuff, but then when we follow up with her she hasn't done what she committed to. She's still a work in progress, but in reality we all are. We have been able to get back in contact with Christopher and Tovah. In case you've forgotten Christopher is a 9 year old boy and Tovah is his mom and she is a less-active member. He was supposed to get baptized awhile back, but there were some...misunderstandings. We have taught them a couple of times now, and they're doing well. I would love to be able to say they're doing great, I just can't though. They both know what they need to do for Christopher to get baptized. They just don't do it. It's always sad when people are like that. Unfortunately I see it more often than not. I am happy that we've been able to start teaching them again. I think they will start to do better here really soon. We have a few more potential investigators, but nothing really worth mentioning. However, the reason I titled this email "Golden" is because of Hartley. He is incredible. We taught him a lot last week. We've broken our lessons up. We'll teach him how to read for about 30 minutes, then we'll teach him more of the gospel for 30 minutes. Both parts are going really well. Last week we asked him how he felt about Joseph Smith and The Book of Mormon, and he bore such a wonderfully beautiful testimony. He also said the opening prayer to one of our lessons, and it was awesome! There was so much feeling in it. He is truly amazing. He has so much desire to improve his life, and most importantly he's acting on it! We also were able to find some free literacy classes offered by the county. He actually is going to take an assessment tomorrow to see how much help he needs. Then I guess he'll start classes. I'm really excited for him. Our little reading lessons are going well, but now he can get some legitimate lessons.


Other than that I can't think of anything really important. My studies are going really well. I have learned so much over the last few months. Apparently some of my leaders have been saying good things about me. I don't know if it really means much, but it's nice to hear.


I guess that's it for now.


Love Always, Zach