Week 3

It's P-Day!!
This week has been quite the adventure, where do I begin?

Elder Welch and I have been spending some good time in the Refferel Center this week and have talked to some pretty interesting people. First off, we talked to a guy who wanted to know why we know God exists and he's not something made up like Santa Clause. We never did convince him all we could do was testify, some people just can't understand the idea of faith.
Another interesting thing that happened at the RC happened yesterday. We ended up talking with a guy named Tyron. He's said he is about to get baptised but has some questions about the church and wanted to get a second opinion (rather then the Elders hes learning from) So he had a lot of good questions, questions about blacks and the curse, questions about homosexuality, and questions about sin. We talked with him for about 45 minutes just answering his questions. He wanted to learn more but we had to go. So we did what any missionary would do... set up a next appointment! That will be friday, hopefully we can help he better understand the importance of baptism.

We had our TA on saturday, this time we taught a young man named David. We first contacted him and got to know him in Spanish, then taught him the first lesson in English.
At first he couldn't understand the importance of families. We spent a lot of time on it, then finally my companion asked him what was important to him, he said hanging out with friends and being happy, my companion took that and turned it right back toward families and then it finally "clicked" for him.
The rest of the lesson was AWESOME! Elder Welch and I both agree it was probably one of the best we've taught.

We also have a "progressive Investigator" which means it's a teacher pretending to be an investigator and we wll teach her all up until we've "baptized" her. We didn't even finish the first lesson with Rachel, but we like having someone to plan a lesson around during companionship study. We'll teach her the rest of the first lesson tomorrow.

We finally had choir yesterday. YAY! Thanks for having Bro. Brenchely call me out... yeah...

The Gym opened yesterday which means a weight room and treadmills. Maybe I won't get fat here afterall. They do nothing but feed you then have you sit the whole day.

My companion is great! We do get into some arguments now and then, but it's about mainly how we handle things differently in certain situations. Like our non god beleiving friend. I wanted to be more offensive when he questions J.S. he wanted to be more Defensive. I actually like it, it shows he will voice his feelings and wont just let me run over them. He does say I talk a lot... oops.

I'm having a blast here, we had two missionaries from chile, and one from the DR join our floor last night. We wanted them to only talk to us in spanish, they only wanted to talk english. Even though their english is so much better then our spanish.
We also got a few missionaries from Hong Kong join us. They are here learning english, one of them kept asking us spanish words, saying he wants to learn spanish too! Ha ha, funny chinese missionaries.

I'm glad everything is good there, I hope everyone had a great memorial day. Way to read a poem dad! Tell everyone I love them and I'm having a great time. Everything they teach us, every speaker who talks to us, every time we teach, just gets us more and more eager to go to the field!

I was reading about peter denying christ thrice this week and came across a talk by president Hinckely. You should read it, it's so great!

anyway my time is almost gone, send more letters! I love hearing from you and sometimes can't wait til wednesday! ha ha.

Love you, miss you, pray for you.

Elder Groves