March 9, 2009

Dear Marcilee,
I understand your frustration in fact i had a little bit of my own this last week. You see we had eight solid commitments to church, or so we thought. In fact we had six new investigators and all the people we taught seemed to be accepting the message very well. On Sunday however we had no investigators show up to church, and because of that we will now have to reset our three baptismal dates with Cameron Blanco, his sister Madison, and Dale Buster. You can just tell dad that I'm not happy I'm not getting any email from him. Y'all expect letters and emails with out writing hahahaha, if only if only that's how it worked out.
Well I've had one busy week this past week. We taught a lot of lesson and found six new investigators. They are all way sweet first there is Cameron and Madison. They are relatives to some less active members who have a daughter who is not baptized either. They will come to church if the less active member family does. Henceforth they've been tough but are coming around and their daughter, Ashley really wants to be baptized also.
Second is Dale, who is a potential investigator from about a year ago. We went through them and decided to go to his house. He was really receptive. In fact the second time we taught him he was waiting right by his door for us. He's very nice and we taught him the gospel of Jesus Christ as outlined in preach my gospel. He's scared of coming to church so we really have to work on it and teach him the importance. He had a baptismal date but since he didn't come to church we will have to reset it.
Third Mary Lou Hines, she is an eighty year old who is very nice and receptive to the message we share. She needs to come to church but she's reading. We will commit her to baptism this week.
Fourth we have Angela, who's about thirty years old and believe it or not prayed us there in a way. We were out in the middle of nowhere just tracting and found her. She said that she needed a bible and told us her mom was a ladder day saint. She said she had be looking for the church but couldn't find it. We haven't been able to teach her again but when we do we are going to commit her to baptism.
Fifth on our list would have to be Sandr. We just found Sandra painting and had made many stops but never convenient so we were about to give up and drop her. But we didn't and our first lesson with her was on an exchange. She was very receptive to the message and is reading the Book of Mormon. She is also going to set a baptismal date with us for herself in the coming week.
Sixth, oh y'all thought i was done huh. Ha ha Devin who is about seventeen is very interesting and really loves to learn and wants to learn more. We also have goals of setting a baptismal date this week with him. We also saw Brandon Barber at church again two weeks ago and are still trying to teach him but he will be a gradual process.
Well as you can see I'm really busy out here and I'm working very hard. I'm very excited for the coming week in which we have over ten appointments scheduled throughout the week. y'all just wait and see I'll be setting dates and baptizing the heck literally the heck out of St. Cloud forgive my language, love y'all.
Love, Elder Judd