July 16, 2009

Here's my update of the work. It's going great! I think I told you about the guy was being baptized last week with his son, and he was, so that was cool. But I wasn't really involved in his teaching, I just came in right before his baptism. However, we have another investigator who is going to be baptized on August 15th! So exciting!!! She is totally ready and has been SO prepared for the church. It's really an awesome thing. She's really a golden (if not platinum) investigator, just one of those you get maybe once in your whole mission (if at all). I'm so excited for her! As for everyone else, we've eliminated alot of those that aren't progressing or aren't keeping commitments after we've been trying to work with them for some time. We're still trying, but we're down to basically two other investigators that we're trying to get ahold of and tracting. We've also started a new program that is going WONDERFULLY well in Summerlake and that we're going to start in the next week in Beaverton 1st. We're going around doing FHE's with family's and helping them become better member missionaries as well as learning how we can best help the members become better member missionaries. It's SO COOL!!! And it's going great too. No results yet, but the members are really excited and talking about it with one another, so that is a big plus!

That's all the news I have for now. Things are going better, I had to buy an air pump and some new inner tubes last week.

I hope all continues to go well. I hope y'all know I love you so much! I really really love y'all with all my heart! Let Lisa know I thank her for her email and I'm sorry I wasn't able to reply to her this week.

I love you,

-Elder Michael Starks