It's POURING here!‏

Today the weather is CRAZY! I think there is going to be a hurricane! haha The thunder and lightning is like nothing I've ever heard or seen before. Things rumble when the thunder goes off. Our poor dog that lives with us was going crazy all night long.

Have fun in St. George this weekend! Tell Grandpa and Grandma hello and Grandpa HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Be safe driving there too.

The doctors went ok. It was a 2 hour drive there and 2 hours back and to be honest I kinda felt like it was a waste of time. He was very interesting and very old... I told him all my symptoms and he just said if it gets really bad I can go work in the mission office. But other than that he didn't say much. I asked him what I should do about my headaches and lightheadedness and he said to take multi vitamins. So I went and got some a few days ago. But this week I've been doing good! I took a short nap on Saturday so don't worry I'm handling it good. :)

This past week was good! On Wednesday Sister Atterton had a leadership training in Sugar Land so I got to go out with a brand new sister, Sister Haertel, in Memorial, where I went on exchanges a month ago! I really like that area, and I have a feeling I'll serve there sometime. Sister Haertel and I had a blast!!! I was kinda scared because she had only been out a week and I have only been here for 2 months so we don't have much experience, but we did great and we had fun! AND we didn't get lost driving around. haha I hope I get to serve with Sister Haertel sometime! She is fun. She is from Utah and she knows a few people I know from High school (Katie James and Kylie Pittard). Small world! Anyways while I was there we did service for this lady who has major fatigue problems. We cleaned and organized her room. Then we went out and taught a lesson before we had to go pick up our companions. I thought the lesson turned out great! And she accepted a baptismal date.

When we went back to pick our companions up guess who was at the church?! Amber Lewis... from the 9th ward I think! I played volleyball with her in high school. She got sent here from Spain after she got sick and had to leave! Crazy huh? She only has 8 months left. It was fun to see her!

This week we found 6 new investigators but we quickly dropped 3 of them because either they didn't want to learn more, or they weren't keeping the commitments. President Saylin told us in a training meeting that as we are busy doing missionary work we will begin to see the sifting affect. That is where we will go through lots of investigators to find the elect who are truly prepared to accept the gospel. We have about 4 progressing investigators right now. 3 of which are ready to get baptized we just need to clear up some small things like getting them married since they are living with someone. So not only am I missionary, but I'm also a wedding planner. ;) haha It's fun!

Sad story! We were out contacting people on our bikes the other day and we met this young family who just barely had their first child a week ago. We were telling them how we know that families can be together forever and the husband quickly jumped in and said "No they can't. We will be on our own in Heaven. Marriages don't last in heaven..." and he just kept going on about all this rubbish. I just stood there in awe thinking how the heck could you believe this.... or even try to believe that once you've married the love of your life and had this little girl! He kept reciting all these scriptures off about the man who dies his brother will take his wife.... etc. I just felt so bad for him and it made me soo grateful for the knowledge I have on being able to be with my family forever! I know that we are sent here to earth to be with families for a reason, and we will be with them for eternity too! I hope his heart is softened some day.

This week we've had a lot of prayers with random people we have met! Haha its kinda fun to see how different people pray. One lady we held hands in a circle on her porch, and this guy on the street too. He was crazy though! He kept saying weird things and when we tried to leave he grabbed our hands and started saying a prayer about how his church is the only true one. Oh well!

Last night we met with a very inactive guy and his wife and son who aren't members. A few months ago this guy wouldn't even talk to us, but after being in his apartment complex so much visiting other people so often he finally consented to let us in. Well we went by last night and taught them the restoration. He sat through the whole lesson fine and then when we got to the Book of Mormon he jumped in and said, "Where is the archeological evidence of the Book of Mormon?".... Sister Atterton and I told him we didn't know exactly where they were but we think Angel Moroni took them. He said he couldn't believe anything without seeing it. I told him the story of Thomas the apostle after Christ was resurrected and he didn't believe Christ came, but then when he saw Christ he believed. Then Jesus told Thomas, "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believed." This Travis guy kinda stumbled and said, "well yeah I know that story.... but.... it's just I need evidence." Ahhhhh.... Faith people! haha Oh well. Some day he'll get it.

Yesterday at Church we had 5 investigators! It was the most that we've had since I've been here. :) We've been working on explaining church in our lessons so our investigators know what to expect and know the importance of coming to church to get answers to their questions, and we are definitely seeing the effects of teaching how important church is. :)

I wish I had more time! But I'll write more next week!

I love you all! I pray for you every day!

Erianne