July 9, 2010

Hi fam!

Good to hear that you are all alive and well. (although we won't know if randy is still alive until next wednesday, eh mom?) I just saw Stacy Allen for those of you that know her. She likes my hair, mom.

So, this past week has been busy. We've had a lot of return appointments (of course they were not ALL kept) and they were with great people! We have some really solid investigators right now. There is a 20 yr old name Taylor who is due to have a baby soon. She only sees her husband twice a year for a week and her family is kind of broken apart so she's really looking for a good family foundation. She had lived in SLC for a while and she liked what she saw with regards to the LDS church and their families and their happiness so she's looking into it now. She had a 3 yr old and she wants her children to have a better life than she did. She's very strong and really amazing.

Then we have Nancy (who I talked about before) that continues to progress just on her own. She wrote us an email this past week saying that she now receives emails every day with 1 scripture from the Bible, 1 scripture from the BoM, and an article from the ensign. Her question: what is family prayer and how do we do it? SOO amazing! She and her husband are celebrating 30 yrs of marriage this week and they both feel like it's a new beginning! Her ties to her former church however will provide a big obstacle b/c she works as an administrative asst. She's hoping to use the time until she can retire to plan and prepare though.

Amran is an investigator from the UK that declared himself as a christian 2 weeks ago, breaking from his family's Muslim tradition. He had been introduced to christianity by a friend of his that lives over there and he came onto the website because he felt like God was leading him to this church. He has had a lot of family troubles because hey feel he has betrayed them and that there are huge consequences in denying that faith. So there has been a lot of opposition, but he works through it. He has a wife and kids, all of whom are muslim and are concerned for him, and everytime we call, there seems to be some attempt to distract him away from the phone and prevent him from learning more. But he tells us to keep teaching and that he wants to learn as much as he can each time we call; to take advantage of the time that we have to speak with him. He's supposed to receive missionaries where he lives and to go to church, but he's finding that it's really difficult with his family situation. It hurts him a lot because he would do anything for his children. So it's a hard situation but he shows such strength and such a desire to do what God wants him to do.

We have some others that we're teaching but they haven't been as frequent. It's been really amazing though. It's nice to be able to teach progressively to the same people. We have very little time on the square but it's ok because we fill up that time with people that are willing to be taught more about God's plan and about the truth that we have. We still have quite a lot of idiotic people come. But it's amazing how widespread everything is.

Anyway, life is good. I'm having a lot of fun with my comp. She didn't know what LSD was...."LSD?! It sounds like a disease or something!" "That's because it's a drug..." "OHhhh!"

Haha, it's been fun. She makes fun of pretty much every little weird thing I do but it's not different from the Hulet clan (ahem ahem...BECKY).

Love you all!

Stister Julet