Week #11 - It's Turtle Time!

Hi there everyone!

What a week it has been. What a week. It was insanely hot again which was great because I was really hoping that the temperatures wouldn't drop below freezing.

Other than that, we had transfers and had some really cool people leave us. That's the way the cookie crumbles, I suppose. I don't really have a whole lot to report this week but things are going extremely well. We taught a lot of lessons this week and there's one new investigator that seems pretty solid. We tracted into her and it turns out she's also really good friends with an awesome family in our ward. We taught her the first lesson and we're also teaching her again next week. She had some good questions which was nice. It's always a plus when you know they're actually taking stuff in and thinking about it.

I had a pretty neat experience when I tried to send in my reading for my defibrillator.
(Alex has an internal defibrillator that paces his heart and has the ability to restart his heart if it should stop...he also has a transmitter that he connects to a land phone line which sends a monthly report of the defibillator's activity to his physician.)
For some reason, I tried it in three different homes of members (one of them I had sent it from last month) and none of them would work. It wouldn't send in my reading and I tried about fifty times and I was getting a little frustrated. So, we ended up visiting a VERY less active member who never answers the door and we decided we'd ask to try it at her house just to see if it worked. Well, she answered the door, and she was more that willing to let us try sending the reading. She has a pretty serious heart problem as well and was very interested in mine. Her phone worked on the first try when I sent in the reading. We were able to talk with her for about forty minutes and it was a REALLY good discussion- first about heart problems and then about the gospel. I don't really know why she stopped going to church- she still seems like a strong member and she still knows it's all true, so hopefully she'll come back soon. It's been years. We'll see!

That's really about everything cool for the week. Sorry I don't have much. Today we're going to the Jelly Belly Factory for a free tour (which comes with a free bag of Jelly Bellys) so I'm pretty psyched about it. I still haven't had a chance to meet Carol Shelton but from what I hear she's a total doll. (When Alex opened his mission call and he said "Santa Rosa California", I told him that it was the home of Charles Schulz - the creator of the Peanuts cartoon (and Linus). He thought I said "Carol Shelton" and was puzzled. If you click on the You Tube video of his mission call you can listen to the exchange.)

Love to everyone!
Elder Al