May 26, 2009

Hey my family,
Well i guess you might wonder a little bit of why you didn't get the email on Monday. Than you probably remembered it was Memorial day and so the library at which i email home was closed.
Well i'm very excited here, first of all i'd like to thank you dad for the letter you wrote me it really meant a lot to me. Second of all before i forget i would like to get the address for Tommy Semmens, the Gillespies, Clark Wilkey, and Josh laub.
As for the work in St. Cloud i guess you can say our dry spell is over. For a long while there we were really being tested with finding new people to teach. It was so hard because i wasn't so excited to do the work but i knew it needed to be done and so we pressed on. Well now we have been blessed after the trial of our faith. We have so many new investigators. In fact today we have six scheduled appointments with member exchanges for all of them. We are way excited and i'll let you know how it goes.
Two of our investigators made it to church so we were very excited. Burnedet Lorentz and her daughter Jazmin are very awesome. Their understanding is not the greatest but they have so much desire to learn. We are going to teach them today with a baptismal date in mind and we are extremly excited. Next we have Paul Ceballos who is a part member and has already been to church twice but didn't become a investigator until yesterday. He to has a huge desire to know if these things are true and already has a support system with his mother who is a member.
I cannot tell you how much your prayers mean to me. I've truly felt their power in my missionary work.
Love Elder Judd