Ah wow! The weeks seem to fly by! Another great week is down and another one to come! This Saturday Chris Barclay, who has been called to serve in Cali, is going through the temple and he invited us along! We are so excited to go! It is such a blessing to have a temple here in Indiana!
We had a really good lesson with a lady who was baptized about 40 years ago and has only been to church a handful of times in her life! Right after she was baptized she was sucked into the horrible anti garbage about the church and never came back. She went to the dentist last week and the dentist told her that she had to get all her teeth pulled immediately.... So the next day they were yanked! She said the reason was because she didn't floss enough haha! Ever since then I have flossed every single day!! Anyways, the lesson was great. She didn't want to let us in (thank heavens) because of how disgusting her house was so we took a seat on the ground outside. We are trying to help her simplify your life one step at a time. Maybe one day she will get rid a few of her cats because 14 cats is way too much haha.
On Thursday we went on exchanges with the assistants. Elder Mortensen is a great missionary! He is going home in a week! "The best missionary is the sneaky missionary." Referrals are hard to come by out here but if you want more referrals you have to be sneaky. Not just ask to teach their friends. We want to start to have a game night where the youth can bring their friends to and there we can meet them and hopefully get things rolling!
Chris is doing great! SHE QUIT SMOKING! We were so excited! We will start to go over more often and keep her motivated and continue to prepare for her date on the 30th! Keep praying for her she is a miracle!
We also met a man named Jeff last Saturday. He is so awesome! When we went back this week for our second lesson he had looked up some anti junk and had a few questions which we were able to answer. Then he turned to us and said that he also watched a movie about Joseph Smith. Oh boy I thought he was going to bash or something... But it was a movie that the church put out!! He told us that he felt something he never felt before. They were feelings of the spirit!!!! He testified to us that Joseph Smith was a prophet. Wow. Later that lesson we invited him to baptism and he said absolutely!!! We had a church tour with him on Saturday and had a great lesson after. He is so in tune with the spirit it is amazing, he could feel the difference from being at the church and being anywhere else. He is now on date for June 25th. He has great things in store!
President set a goal for us to have a new investigator on date for the month of April and Jeff was an answer to our prayers:)
Sunday I gave a talk in church, it was great! I started by a story about one of our many family adventures of geo cashing and tied it into how we all will make wrong turns in live but we have each been given a spiritual 'gps'. If we check that gps then we will not make wrong turns! But too often when we make a wrong turn instead of turning back (repenting) we will throw out the gps and try to find the geocash on our own. The Lord knows better than us! He has given us a gps to help us so we better use it! Ways to check your gps: daily scripture study, weekly preparation for the sacrament, and every 6 months study general conference!
We had interviews with President on Friday! He says I will probably stay here in Greenwood:) I am happy with that we have so many people here preparing for baptism. But you never know transfers arent for another week so he might get some mad revelation before then.
On Saturday we saw some guys over at the ymca playing ball so we went over and had a little beat to teach game in our with shirts:) We got some phone numbers so maybe we will start teaching some of them!
Oh and elder wallaces grandparents came and took us to texas roadhouse for dinner on Tuesday!!:)
Love you all!
sitting here emailing next to Sister Santiago from Puerto Rico,
she is funny with her accent. 
exchanges with Elder Weitzel a few weeks back.
i drew a pic of how sisters teach :))) hahaha the two words they say most are 'right' and 'wow'
we went to an old theater to help clean it up and we found an alien who wanted the gospel.
Elder Larsen is the other missionary
Cloudy days...
my lunch most days is tuna and eggs with spinach. haha
Look at the "football" milk!
elder Wallace plays his uke all the time.... don't say anything but it is out of tune most days and so is his voice...
I tracted into a bear the other day... haha it was carved out of a tree stump!
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