March 16, 2009

Judd Fam,
Hey how's everything going, well i guess i already got my answer. I wish I had been able to go through a temple open house, but I guess just going through it is a lot better haha. Well Florida here is just great. One of the most amazing things to me is how people can just really care less about the commitments they make. They really don't care and take all we do for granted.
Anyways I'm really not mad I just think it is pretty funny. We dropped about four of our investigators this week because they are not putting forth the effort to progress. Angela Disney just flat out told us she had got in trouble for talking to us, and told us the please never come back again. We also had Dale who got sick and is also not willing to progress, while we have the Navaros who are on the verge of being dropped.
Put it this way we did a lot of weeding out this week. In fact we had Mary Lou Hines at church this week, remember she's about seventy five years old and read to Alma fourteen after we gave her the book of Mormon. She really has been a joy to work with and we are very excited for her. We are going to set a baptismal date with her on Tuesday. Yes Grandma I love setting baptismal dates in fact I'm doing it quite often.
I really was having a tough week and i couldn't see the fruits of our labor and we really had a lot of fall out. But just as i had said the lord works in Mysterious ways and that's a fact. We were walking home one day from about two hours of contacting and a lady stopped us and bought us a drink. We talked to her and asked if we could come share our message with her. She agreed and so we are going to see her on Tuesday.
Also another blessing came from a member who saw that we really were working hard. He said he had been given a referral from a lady in Orlando. In fact is was a guy who said he wanted to visit her church so she gave him the address to the chapel and told our member about him. So he went over got in contact with the guy and committed him to listen to the missionary lessons. We didn't see them until Sunday at church but they are super excited to learn. I was able to teach gospel principles class and he was just soaking it all in. In fact we are going to teach them tonight. I'm super excited and know they are just going to love the restoration.
Thanks my family for all that you do and for all of the letters that just make my day. Love you all so much. And dad get better.
Love Elder Judd
ps who is still working out every morning watch out!!!!!