Hi everyone!
Thanks a ton for the swell, surprising, sensational and stupendous 100 Day present! You are quite the family! I'll have to let you know some of my favorites next week. They were all crazy awesome.
Aside from that it's been a crazy week. Nothing too exciting- we've been driving people around and having to do a bunch of stuff that took up time and wasted our miles because of transfers. This car situation is not the greatest. But, we've got some new people in our zone who seem pretty cool so that's a plus.
We had a really cool experience with someone who's now an investigator for the singles branch. My story telling won't do it justice and I don't have much time to write today, so here is a very basic version: We had just seen her Saturday and invited her out to stake conference, and then I remembered that I was given invitations for a Halloween dance party at the singles branch to hand out to less actives and what not. I was annoyed with myself for forgetting, and then the ol' trusty comp suggested we just go over and deliver it anyway. We were way lucky to even catch her at all Saturday and we felt a little "brushed off" but I decided we might as well give it a shot. When we were near her area, I suggested we park and just walk the rest of the way because we needed to save miles. So, as we finally get near her house, there she is walking from one of her neighbors and she said "Hi guys!" (sidenote: had we not parked and walked, she would not have been home when we stopped by her house, and during the week she's in San Francisco so it would have been at least another week before we could maybe get ahold of her) and she walked over. We invited her to the Halloween party, and then she just started asking a couple questions that were VERY basic. From what we had learned about this girl before, we were under the impression that she was one of those people that knew all about us and believed it was all true but didn't ever want to be baptized. After talking to her for about forty minutes in the street, we found out that's not at all the case. She had the perfect questions and they basically led us to teaching her almost two full lessons. It got to a point where I explained why baptism was important and what it really was, to which she asked "Well what do I need to do to be baptized?" Excellent question. We explained more and she asked if we could come over next weekend to teach her more about everything. We said thanks but no thanks. Ha just kidding. We set up a time and she gave us her cell number and was excited. Pretty awesome stuff. We were on quite the spiritual high the rest of the day.
Anywho, I don't really have too much more to update about. Sorry this one's a bit short. I think the "greenie mail" period has definitely come to a close but it was good while it lasted.
Just so all of you friends back at home know, I'm still accepting letters. :-D
Have an extraordinary week- much love all around! Elder Al
