"This week was the best week both in experiences as well as numbers, but numbers aren't important"

This week I found a GPS that worked at a yard sale for 5 bucks so of course I bought it.

We had a lesson on eternal marriage in Sunday school, and then in priesthood we taught with the heads up of only Sacrament Meeting because the teacher had to leave. But it went very well. It was on chapter 19, whichever one that is in the Joseph Fielding book. It is an interesting subject about sacrifice and all. We can never understand the greatness of the atonement but we can try to understand it and apply it.

This week was the best week both in experiences as well as numbers, but numbers aren't important. Well we had a great week. We were working at Spanish work level this week. We had a lot of lessons and a lot of contacts. We were going around on Tuesday visiting people and slowly making our way towards a lesson we had. But we had moved faster than we had expected so we still had time before the lesson. So we went by a referral that lived near our investigator, hoping to catch him at home. We knocked on the front door 2 or 3 times but no one answered, even though we could hear someone in there. We were about to leave, until I remember that in the description when the referral came it said to go around back to get in. We went around back and a man was sitting on a small mattress on the ground. We asked if he was who we were looking for and he was! So we sat down and gave a quick first lesson and just kinda of got to know him a little. We asked if he would like to come to church with us this Sunday (the 12th) and he said he would like to. So we left to go to our other lesson which is with our investigator with a baptismal date, Angel. He is 15 and the son of a LA, well she isn't really LA anymore, but whatever. We were going to teach about The Gospel of Jesus Christ, but when we showed up, since we weren't able to get a male over 18 to come with us we had to have the lesson outside. When he came down he was carrying a big bottle of iced tea. So we had planned to teach the Word of Wisdom next week but I accidentally just started in on it this week, but it was following the Spirit I guess..... or me being absent minded one of the two..... I'm going with the Spirit and I'm sticking to it. He committed to live the Word of Wisdom so that was great, now to see if it stuck.

We went by Lance’s on Saturday and it was good. We took Brother Gary Pike (he was in The Lettermans if that means anything to you). He is our ward mission leader and Lance was great. He had read out of the Book of Mormon and he remembered like all he had read. It was only 4 chapters, but it was great. He would say the names wrong or put like a French accent on them and Brother Pike would correct him all the time. It doesn't matter right now how you say them he is reading it! Yeah, Brother Pike is an interesting fella.

It’s hot but it is cooling off , but then it will get hot again, so yeah.

We went to the Thai temple on Saturday where they have their Thai market and food stuff and we got some and I ate sticky rice and kabobs, so yeah it was fun.

I think I liked Elder Bednar’s conference talk the most. It was kinda fun and it is weird to know we were watching some of it at the same time, but mostly cool.

We have a Halloween party on the 25th and we get to be the chili cook off judges, so yay! Oh I like chili now.

I have run out of time so I will talk to you next week.

Love you
Elder Hyde