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From: Matthew Courtright
Date: Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Subject: 1/11/09
Wow what a week! on monday we set a guy for baptism..in july! a date is better than no date though. On wednesday i got to go on exchanges into my old area which was really fun. we saw some of the less actives and investigators that i had helped teach. We also went to see some of my favorite members. We committed one of the members to not have another stroke. (he had a stroke 2 days before but it wasnt bad) He laughed and agreed.
Then on friday we helped one of our investigators, Jim and Karen Vance, take down their 12 foot tree. and then had cobbler and a really good lesson with them. It was amazing berry cobbler. and Jim finally opened up a little. he is very masculine and doesnt like to admit when he is upset. but he said that when the missionaries come they only teach Karen, they gave Karen a BoM, they bring her DVDs, etc. Well, its probably true, Karen is definately the more spiritual one and looks forward to the lessons when jim only wants to joke around. But we gave him a Bible and he loved it. he told Karen that his was "better than hers." it was really funny to watch them debate that subject. Karen came to church on sunday which was awesome because elder walker and i were speaking. Elder walker is...monotonous, but outside of that he had a great talk. and then i gave my talk, and used an Obama quote in wyoming (best part), and talked about karen and jim and one other investigator, jessica kear, who was at church. I had karen crying in seconds. she only stayed for sacrament meeting cause she had to go see her mom in an retirement home but she told many of the members that she would be back next week. we are so pumped for her. coming to church i think was the last big hurdle for her!
Did i mention that i quoted Barack Obama, in Wyoming, in sacrament meeting, from the pulpit? not many people got the huevos mas grandes for that.
today is gonna be a good day. we are gonna eat dinner with a Col. in the military. He's important. I can name drop him :)
every morning elder walker and i go running for 2 reasons.
1) elder walker is fat
2) i cant breathe the air so i am working on trying to breathe
but today we couldnt because there was a good 4-6 inches of snow on the ground and i wasnt about to run through that. we might have to put running on the shelf because the snow doesnt melt. it hasnt snowed since december and there were still patches of snow. we had many 40 + days so it should have melted, but logic doesnt work in wyomin'. Why you ask? cause its wyomin'!
Well, be good all. Look forward to hearing from you.
--Elder Courtright
From: Matthew Courtright
Date: Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Subject: 1/11/09
Wow what a week! on monday we set a guy for baptism..in july! a date is better than no date though. On wednesday i got to go on exchanges into my old area which was really fun. we saw some of the less actives and investigators that i had helped teach. We also went to see some of my favorite members. We committed one of the members to not have another stroke. (he had a stroke 2 days before but it wasnt bad) He laughed and agreed.
Then on friday we helped one of our investigators, Jim and Karen Vance, take down their 12 foot tree. and then had cobbler and a really good lesson with them. It was amazing berry cobbler. and Jim finally opened up a little. he is very masculine and doesnt like to admit when he is upset. but he said that when the missionaries come they only teach Karen, they gave Karen a BoM, they bring her DVDs, etc. Well, its probably true, Karen is definately the more spiritual one and looks forward to the lessons when jim only wants to joke around. But we gave him a Bible and he loved it. he told Karen that his was "better than hers." it was really funny to watch them debate that subject. Karen came to church on sunday which was awesome because elder walker and i were speaking. Elder walker is...monotonous, but outside of that he had a great talk. and then i gave my talk, and used an Obama quote in wyoming (best part), and talked about karen and jim and one other investigator, jessica kear, who was at church. I had karen crying in seconds. she only stayed for sacrament meeting cause she had to go see her mom in an retirement home but she told many of the members that she would be back next week. we are so pumped for her. coming to church i think was the last big hurdle for her!
Did i mention that i quoted Barack Obama, in Wyoming, in sacrament meeting, from the pulpit? not many people got the huevos mas grandes for that.
today is gonna be a good day. we are gonna eat dinner with a Col. in the military. He's important. I can name drop him :)
every morning elder walker and i go running for 2 reasons.
1) elder walker is fat
2) i cant breathe the air so i am working on trying to breathe
but today we couldnt because there was a good 4-6 inches of snow on the ground and i wasnt about to run through that. we might have to put running on the shelf because the snow doesnt melt. it hasnt snowed since december and there were still patches of snow. we had many 40 + days so it should have melted, but logic doesnt work in wyomin'. Why you ask? cause its wyomin'!
Well, be good all. Look forward to hearing from you.
--Elder Courtright
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Penny Freeman
Gratitude is the essence of joy.
