February 22 2010

Hey Family!

This week has definitely been good. Everything seemed to be going our way. We were working very hard this week and got everything we needed to get done. We got all our new investigators for the week (9). Even though this week was great, it was still dang hard! The weather was HOT! Oh well.

So here is my highlight for the week. On Saturday, we went to the MTC to take around the missionaries. We were on the way there and we were kinda of hurrying and a guy flagged us down and told us to follow him. So we did, even though we were late. Apparently, this man is deaf! It was so sweet! Mom, remember how i took sign language in 10th grade and you said there was no use for it, well, there was! haha. I only remembered small though. But we communicated by writing down words on a newspaper. His name is Kujo. He seems very interested in our Church. So i told him to come tomorrow (Sunday) and we'll talk more. So he came to Church and during the 3rd session i took him aside and he started to teach me sign. It was really sweet cuz i was able to catch on very fast cuz of 10th grade. We gave him a Book of Mormon and he said he'll start reading it. Hopefully he does what it says in the second to last paragraph in the intro. I think that would be sweet to baptize a deaf man! Except there might be a slight problem, he's deaf and he doesnt have an interpreter. So we'll see what happens with him. I'll keep you guys updated with him.

Next story: As i said before, we took the missionaries out to practice on Saturday. Usually we just show them where to go and me and my companion will go do our own thing. But this time i wanted to go on splits with them. So Elder Nielson took one companionship and went to all our appointments and i took another companionship and went contacting. It was really fun and brought back bad memories. I hated it when we went out and practiced. I was SO SO scared to actually go out to the field with my MTC companion. So, i took these two missionaries to a spot where they could knock on some doors. haha man, they were nervous. I told them i wasnt going to do anything haha. So they knocked on the first door and they did their thing. It was very sketchy but i cant blame them, I'm sure i was the same way. So luckily, the guy let them in and this man has been taught by the missionaries before and he already read the Book of Mormon. But he said it was a LONG time ago and doesnt remember anything. So these MTC missionaries kind of froze and didnt know where to begin. So finally one of them started talking about the Book of Mormon. Like i said, it was rough, but okay. So we went on and contacted again. One girl let us in and teach her. I was the one to teach this time so i can show them how to do it haha. It was a very nice lesson. Her boyfriend came in later too. But i taught them about families, prophets, Christ's Church, Apostasy, Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. We usually wouldnt share that much but these people were asking a lot of nice questions. After that our time was up and we went back to the MTC for dinner. We only take them out from 2 to 5.

Well like i said, this week was really nice for us and it went by REALLY fast, which i like a lot. I hope this week goes well for you guys as well.

Oh, remember that stuff that we took out at the airport? Like the toothpaste, body wash, shaving cream, and face wash? Do you think you can send that stuff? Cuz here, it is really expensive. You can send that in my birthday package with some sweet food haha. Also, Elder Nielson brought some sweet drink mix. He bought it at Wal-mart. It's these little packages for a bottle of water and it's just a flavor for water. I'm sure it's really cheap too. So i wouldnt mind some of that too.

Well that is all. I love you guys!! Stay strong!

Elder Batchelor