Nov. 29, 2009

Tiffany got confirmed yesterday -- yay!!! Also our zone did really good this month on our goals. We had a goal of 13 baptized and 25 dates set and we had 12 baptized and 27 dates set!! It was sweet! The Burgesses called later on Monday and cancelled our appointment. The kids were sick with fevers and had pink eye, but we're going to see them this Wednesday. The Ft. Cambell branch now has a branch mission leader that has a much more open schedule in the evening time then most so that'll be a big help.

Thanksgiving was really good, the Stucki's had the best stuffing I've ever had!! It had chunks of sausage in it as well as some mushrooms, it was really really good. She also made the best creamed corn I've ever had. I'm not a big fan of creamed corn but hers was amazing. It was cooked in a crock pot and it was really good; that's all I know about it. Brother Stucki is in the army and he got sent home early from a deployment due to injuries. An anti tank rocket was shot at his vehicle and hit his door, shrapnel tore through his right forearm and his right thigh causing some very critical damage. He's missing large chuncks of bone in his arm due to it. He was also a police officer in Florida before he joined the army he worked in the anti gang units and doing the drug busts and whatnot. His hero is Porter Rockwell, and our dinner conversation was along those lines for the most part.

We've got a few more people that we're working with now our teaching pool has been depleted a little bit due to the fact that they are no longer investigators their recent converts. So we're doing a lot of finding this week. Two people we're working with now are Otis Maryweather who is a really nice guy he came to church yesterday but he's also very uneducated. He has trouble reading and his speech is very hard to understand. He doesn't know if the church is true yet but he wants to be baptized the way that Christ was so he's learning more about the church. Then there's Deborah Phelps she's had a long hard life. She's in her 50's and an alcoholic, she was raised in a church and her parents were very very active in the church and infidelity tore apart her family. After that she decided that she didn't want anything to do with church. Recently she's been in a tough spot in life and talking with her mother-in-law who converted to the church about 20 some odd years ago. Deborah's mother-in-law told her that she'd put her name on the prayer roll in the temple and that got her curious about the church so she ordered a Book of Mormon and now we're teaching her, she was also at church yesterday.

Speaking of the temple President Hutchings and the temple president here have arranged for all of the missionaries in the mission to go to the temple each zone has a specific day and we'll be able to spend round about 4-5 hours in the temple doing all of the ordinances available!! We're all really excited about it.

Love you all and hope that you have a great week!!

Elder Carpenter