Week #36 - Radio Flyer Telephone Wagons

Hey Everyone!

It was a good week. I met the most amazing golden investigator of all time on Saturday (sadly she's not my investigator...). It was incredible- she called the mission office and wanted missionaries and so the sister missionaries went there the first time and taught her the first lesson. Apparently, the investigator (Mary P.) started bearing testimony about everything about how true it was and she couldn't believe how powerful prayer was and stuff. Anyway, I was on exchanges with the elders in her area on Saturday and got to meet with her and teach the Plan of Salvation. She wanted all the reading material she could have when the sisters visited her, so she got every pamphlet, every piece of literature we have basically...and when I got there to teach (two days later) she had read it all, and she was half way through the Book of Mormon (for the second time. She read it once before she requested missionaries). She was SO excited about everything and said how it's been crazy finding time to do it but she can't stop looking into it. She's in her mid-forties and currently working on her masters degree (I will no longer take anyone seriously who says they couldn't find time to read a chapter reading assignment in a week because they were busy). Anyway, the spirit was stronger than I've ever felt during the entire lesson and it was probably one of the most amazing experiences I've had yet. She went to church the next day and everyone loved her and she loved everyone. She also baked us cookies for the lesson. They were tasty.

So life is fantastic in Benicia. Last week for the most part was kinda lame due to our loss of the car up until Friday. The DMV was giving the mission office a ton of trouble with getting a renewed registration for our car, so we couldn't drive it all week. We're probably the most inconvenient area in the zone to not have a car, but we do now so life is good.

Anyway- I'm way low on time today. Hope all is well with everyone and thanks for the mail from everybody!

Elder B