Letter

June 1st – June 7th
Monday: We had so much fun today. The Elders in Lake Tapps had us all come over to a members home which is right on the lake we bbq and had tons of fun!! Also we had some good lessons and for our dinner went to the Birches and ate the most delicious Indian tacos YUMMY fry bread! Good day!
Tuesday: Today was good we had a great lesson with Dave Turley taught him about prophets. We showed this clip from this video Special Witness’s of Christ. You showed President Monson at the time it was Gordon B Hinkley was prophet but anyway we showed this part by Pres Monson he spoke about the Book of Mormon which was really good. Then we watched a clip with President Hinkley the spirit was so strong he testified of Christ and it was amazing!! We are still trying to get him to commit to baptism he says he will be baptized but he is not sure when. It is frustrating but we are making progress. He asked how many lessons we have I told him at least one a week until you get baptized. He said I hope you are creative… does he know me at all I am VERY creative.
Wednesday: Today was so busy we had a million lessons not really but it felt super busy… we taught Jamie we found her tracting last week and it was cool we taught the restoration and she really felt the spirit we are going back next week. The only challenge with her is that well she is living with her boyfriend who is her baby’s daddy and we can fix that but she doesn’t know about coming to church on Sunday. She goes to church with the boyfriends Grandma and she feels really obligated because they gave her a lot of help with the baby. Anyway we will see. SO we taught this really cool object lesson where you try to fit an egg into a plastic bottle, which is heaven, but you have to do all these steps take off the shell, baptize it, etc it still doesn’t fit until baptism of fire you light the rubbing alcohol in the bottle on fire and then you put the egg on top and it gets sucked down… it is pretty cool but very dangerous. My companion is terrified of fire so I am always in charge of the demonstration so in front of all these kids I totally burnt my hand, the rubbing alcohol was a little too much anyway I spent the rest of the lesson with my hand in the bowl of water we had used as the eggs baptismal font. Pretty funny oh know wait till I tell you what happened at our next lesson. That night when we showed the object lesson to Bronwyn her roommate/ baby’s daddy came in for the lesson. We taught him which is cool we are trying to get him to church you never know… anyway same object lesson except I forgot to tell you in one step we color black on the egg then peel away the shell to represent repentance. SO one of our eggs sins was stealing a candy bar… anyway when we lit the fire it sucked the egg in but sliced off about half of it. We all laughed so hard!!! Paul said “There goes that candy bar she stole” anyway it was hilarious. Who knew getting into heaven would be so violent!! But amidst all that, somehow we felt the spirit.
Thursday: We helped the Ewell’s move. We had a great lesson with Brandon his baptism is Saturday we are so excited for him and we showed the egg demo which exploded. We might have to retire this trick it is pretty dangerous. Went and taught a recent convert who is taking temple prep it was going great and she is super excited. Friday: Had some great member lessons they have referrals for us this is great!!! It is nice to see some results from working with the members. It was a good day not much else…
Saturday: We helped the Ewell’s move all morning it was really crazy and a lot of work. But it is always nice to see the ward unite behind someone. We had a lesson with the older man it was super funny he is the father of a member of the ward. The other day we set up an appointment. We asked if we could come and share a message but when we came today we asked to pray and he said no I don’t ever talk about religion… we are missionaries that is what we do! Anyway it was weird we tried to get around it unsuccessfully and he ended up just talking about his motor home. The weird thing is the member his daughter didn’t warn us at all and she knew… how weird. Saturday night was Brandon’s baptism it was so awesome the spirit was so strong and he was just beaming there was a good amount of support there which is always good. Dave Turley came to the baptism which was cool he really felt the spirit and we are hoping this will be the key to helping him progress!!!
Sunday: Today was crazy we had a long ward meeting and then tried to get a less active family with a 9 year old son to church. I don’t think they liked us coming over but the 9 year old came to church so that is good. To bad we need his Dad there too since he is the one holding up the baptism. We had a lot of people at church which is great but stressful there is only two of us, it is hard to be everywhere at once and make everyone feel welcome. Brandon bore his testimony it was amazing I am so happy for him. His family was supposed to come but didn’t, I worry about him. I hope the ward takes good care of him he has no support otherwise. We have a good ward so it should be good.
Monday: Well I woke up and came here. Write more next week.
Love,Sister Graf