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8/30/10...Well Hello Everyone,


I guess I don't have to worry about running out of time this week. Last Monday my time went by super fast. Unfortunately I don't feel like I have a whole lot to write about this week. Hopefully more things will come to me as I get writing.


Last week started off pretty well. Monday night we went to Katie and Leslie's house and had dinner with their family. It was a good time. Elder Day and Elder Fasan went too, I realized that I was spelling Elder Fasan's name wrong. We had pizza, which was pretty good. We also taught them the Plan Of Salvation again. Leslie has heard it probably something like four times. It was a great lesson. I know the Plan Of Salvation can really help them because their dad died about four years ago, and it helped me when Dad died. The Spirit was there in abundance. It was awesome!


The rest of the week was okay. We did more tracting than I've done in a long time. I didn't mind though. It think it was a pretty good use of time because we couldn't seem to get any appointments with members. We had a few potential investigators, but none of them panned out. We did meet one guy named Chad on Saturday. He seems like he is actually interested. I'm definitely praying that he is. We did get a chance to go see a few families and help them set up their family missionary plan. We had mixed results. Last Thursday we went and saw the Heintzelman family. They're an awesome family. Brother and Sister Heintzelman are pretty young. She's 29 and he's in his early 30's. They have four daughters. Their ages are 7, 5, 3, and 1. It was a lot of fun going over there. Sister Heintzelman is actually related to us. She's a descendant of Erastus Snow. Anyway, we had dinner with them then helped them with their family missionary plan. Basically we have them pray to know who they can share the gospel with. Then we write that person's name down, a little information about them, a plan of action, and when it will be completed. For the plan of action we have a small list of things they can do. They range from inviting their friends to check out mormon.org to inviting them to be baptized. They can also invite them to church, give them a Book of Mormon, invite them to a missionary lesson, and stuff like that. The whole family got involved. The seven and five year old are each going to invite one of their friends to church, while Brother Heintzelman is going to invite a coworker of his to come to the Tuesday night class. After we get that stuff established we role play with them. One of us, Elder Frampton or myself, acts like their friend while they execute their plan of action. In the case of the seven year old girl, Kiya, Elder Frampton pretended to be her friend then Kiya invited him to church. It was a really fun time! The girls are really excited to invite their friends. We're going to call them tonight to see how it went. I'm excited to find out. That was a really great way to end the night. The other families we visited were okay. Like I said, we had mixed results. Some of the families don't seem to care at all, and just don't want to cooperate. While others are all excited and really looking forward to sharing the gospel with their friends. It's still a work in progress. I know as we do it more often we'll be able to find more effective ways of inviting the Spirit and getting families excited.


That's my week in a nutshell. Elder Frampton and I are getting along well. We are building a pretty good little friendship. I actually get along with all the Elders in my district. They're a good group. Elder Day and I are becoming good friends. We talk about stuff all the time. We can relate to each other really well. I'm pretty sure a lot of it has to do with the fact that we're both pretty new. He's a really great friend. My studies are going well. It's actually one of my favorite things to do. I wish I had more time to do personal study. An hour seems like a lot, but it goes by so quickly.


Well, it looks like I found a little more to write about than I had anticipated. I probably won't be able to write next week because of Labor Day. I hope you all have a safe and wonderful Labor Day weekend!


Love Always, Zach