SNAKE RIVER, FLY FISHING!!

Dear Family,

This week was  good and also a little difficult.

We share an area with the AP's (the assistants to the President) which means that we have like double the work force. The problem is that we have stopped going on splits with each other which hinders our ability to get to know each others investigators.

                They left for conferences and just kind of gave us all of their appointments. It is good that we have a lot of work to do but when we have 2 appointments at the exact same hour 3 times in a row it is a little frustrating especially when we have never been to the house or met the person before.

                We survived but it was a little rocky.

                We are progressing in the area though! We have had 4 investigators attend church every Sunday for the past 5 Sundays. The problem is that they aren’t all the same investigators. We are trying to work on that!

                One of the biggest problems here is that every Sunday this huge market just appears out of no where and it is all a little cheaper and has anything you could possibly need. It is only open on Sundays as well. A lot of people tell us that they have to go shopping on Sunday because of this stupid tradition. I hate it.

                J and S still need to get married but they don’t have the money quite yet. They won't let us do any sort of fundraiser either which is stupid but I am not going to argue with him.

                D has a baptismal date and so do her 2 children. She is a single mom who has 3 kids in total and has big desires to change. She went to church last week and I believe she will go again this week. We are going to see her tonight so we will see.

                L Family is great. They are a new family that has told us they are going to church and told us to come by and get them to go which means I will drag them out of bed if I have to.

                C Family is one of my favorites because F is sooo funny and because they just had a baby and she is very adorable. They also said they will be going to church and we are going to verify It tonight. They also expressed their desires to be baptized.

                Funny story this week: Elder Sarnowski and I were walking to the store one morning and this guy stops us as we are going in and just shouts ¨How is the business doing?!¨

Elder Sarnowski had spoken with him before so without thinking he just changed it around and said ¨Hows YOUR business doing?¨

The man responded ¨Terrible!!! No money! No chance!¨

This is all in English by the way.

Then he says ¨Where are you from? America! No wait one of you is British!¨ And then he pointed at me. I just laughed and said, ¨Nope I am American.¨

Then he shouted, ¨OK! You are from…New York..no no no…Idaho!¨

Surprised, I responded ¨Yes actually I am from Idaho.¨ Then without hesitation he shouts at the top of his lungs, ¨SNAKE RIVER, FLY FISHING!!¨Making the whipping motion you use with a fly rod.

I almost lost It there because it was just so random. He continued to say other weird things and then at the end he just said ¨PRAY TO YOUR GOD!¨ To which Elder Sarnowski replied ¨Pray to yours!¨ And then he walked away. We have been quoting this encounter all week.

I will act all this out on a recording for you next week!

It sounds like Grandma is doing okay with everything. I know she might not accept a lot of help but it is good to be ready to offer it anyways!

That is about it for this week! Love you guys! Stay strong!

Con amor,

Elder Reese