June 30, 2014

This week was alright.  Most of our appointments fell through which was a bummer and all the people we tried by we not at home either so it made for a long week.  We did do some service with our ward and helped a couple of missionaries with some of their investigators and members, so that's always a plus.
We had a couple of less active members at church yesterday and had a new less active member that we are working with that came and we are hoping that we can get him active again.
I had an interview with Pres. Ware, he told me that the ward here really needs me and that I'm doing a great work as well, helping a lot of less active members come back to the fold and this is where I need to be.
The week before we spend part of the day with a councilor in the stake presidency and helped put up the fence in mama's back yard that had blown down.  We also mowed her lawn as well.
Last week we had a softball game, I think I told you about, the less active member that we have been working with came and I was really surprised.  He couldn't stop smiling.  He told us that we were fulfilling our purpose and that he only came because were were there.  He later called us that night and told us that we had tricked him.  He thought he was having an interview with the stake president instead of the mission president.  He then thanked me for all that I've done for him to get the ball rolling for him to get active again and that he couldn't figure out how we always know how to help him.  He also said that after the softball game he went to talk to his dad and was looking through some old boxes and found his old mission stuff and on the inside cover of the 1st  book he opened was his patriarchal blessing, which I had ask him to read.  He said that now time for him to take action and to be active and take the necessary steps to turn his life around and that somehow I've been able to get to him and that I have only lived 1/2 as long as him and have done 1/8 of what he had but he turns to me for what to do to get his life on track and for advice.  He also said that I'm a great man even all 20 years of  me and that the two of us will have to figure out what action to take next for him.  He also wants me to come back and visit so we can go camping, fishing and rafting after my mission.
It's made me feel good when he told me how I've been impacting his life.

That's all that I have.

I love you.
Love,
Scott