Transfer's Almost Done

Life in Basin City is good. We had a fantastic week last week for numbers. We blew both of our records for total lessons out of the water. I won't say how many but we got over the mission standard of excellence which is 20. This week is pretty slow by comparison. It was pretty neat because we figured out how to get into a lot more houses. It seems kind of obvious, but it had never occurred to us. We would do our little door approach speech and then if they invited us in we would teach. But that left things too much up to the potential investigator. So this last week we started straight up asking to come in. It works pretty effectively.

We got two more people on date for baptism this last week, which brings us to a running total of four. The first one my comp and one of the ZL's put on date during an exchange. Her name is Alma, she's the sister of another lady we have on date. And the second person is this 12-13 year old girl named Kayle. (sp?) She's been attending church for about 8 months now and finally decided she wanted to talk to the missionaries, so we got called up by some members The Hadleys and started teaching her at their house. She's on date for April 9th. So we're excited to have so many people on date, but we are really really hoping that neither of us gets transferred because all of their dates are next transfer.

To answer dad's question we don't do exchanges with the members, but we do try to get them present in the lessons. The mission is actually discouraging splitting up, they prefer us to bring members with us

This last week on Wednesday I think, we had an interesting/unfortunate experience. There's a trailer park we do a lot of work in in Basin City. It's run by a member in our area. Well, he approached us while we were tracting and trying follow ups and told us how this lady had been bit by a dog (dogs aren't allowed in the park but everyone has them, they just lie when he comes around) and he needed us to translate for him while he talked to this lady. So I acted as translator. In the end he was pretty mad and I had to tell the lady to get rid of the dog. Needless to say it was not good press for us as missionaries. We don't want to be associated with the guys that run the place. Afterwards we discovered that the lady was someone who told us to come back, so that will be an uncomfortable follow up.

Today we are having a zone pday at some members in BC, so that should be fun, I'll be sure to take pictures. Thanks for the email Whit, I appreciate it. It's always good to hear how the fam is doing. I think that's everything important for this week, thanks for the address info mom. I love you all and the church is true.