Hi Mom!
I'm on right now. I might be on for a little while so..........
psssshhhh Long Branch doesn't look very much like those pictures because 1) the hurricane and 2) it's winter.... I wish it looked like that. That last picture is not Long Branch, but the rest are! It doesn't look that cool, though. I took pictures and forgot my camera today sadly. sorry!
It's a good day so far! We do emails at the Eatontown chapel which is not closed on holidays. Yes we live near the church. It's like 3 miles away. We get to the grocery store and laundry with our zone leaders, they live about 30 min away but they pick us up. I am not playing hoops today, cause we're way behind on time. :( but next week I will. We did last week. I got super sore.
So this week was pretty good. We still had a fair amount of success but we got juked out of a lot of our appointments, especially on the weekend. That is frustrating in a walking area. It actually doesn't happen that often in a walking area. It seems that people are just home when we stop by. It's not like that in driving areas. It's either a blessing from God or we are just subconsciously better at planning. Anyway, it was sort of rotten this weekend because it was freezing so people aren't outside for us to talk to and teach. We went to the bike shop on our way to an appointment to get a new bike tire and I saw a $12,000 bike. It was a joke. It was a carbon fiber Pinarello dogma or something like that. They had a cheaper Specialized S-works that I thought looked cooler. Nice bikes.
We have some solid investigators though! One of them we picked up on Sunday. We are working with a young man named Damond Brown who is super cool. He is almost 18 and he is a recently returning member and he wants to serve a mission. We are good buddies. He and his mom (who is not a member) came to church and she sat in on a lesson about family history and temple work. She loved it, so after church she asked us the details on how to prepare to get to the temple and be baptized. So we told her, and she said she would like for us to baptize her in two weeks. Then we told her that her son (who was ordained a priest that Sunday) could baptize her! And that she could go to the temple in February to do the work for her ancestors. It was somewhat odd because I felt like everything we told her was too good to be true. But... it's not, so that's good. Someone else we are teaching is a woman named Sister Pacheco. Her son was baptized about a month and a half ago. She comes to church every week and she wants to be baptized in May but each week we move up her baptismal date by a month so I am assuming she will eventually settle for a day in February. She is hesitant because she has church hopped like four times in the last year and she doesn't want to do it again. And her husband is not super interested in being taught right now so that doesn't help. Fortunately, her son is a champ and so that is a big push for her to join the church. So you can pray for Sister Brown and Sister Pacheco. We have a couple other investigators that I will tell you about next week.
Congrats to Regan! sounds like a neat job.
Enjoy the holiday. Hope the burgers are fantastic. It's been a while since I have made a yummy burger. But I can make a god one, don't worry.
Love, TAB
Thanks Dad!
I still am trying to read the Old Testament. This morning I read a few chapters in Genesis, something like chapters 18 to 22, and it baffled me. It is such a strange history. I hope this doesn't offend anyone, but the book of Genesis doesn't really appear to me to be "scripture"... at least compared to the Book of Mormon or the Gospels in the New Testament. Sometimes I'll find an insightful scripture or two, maybe a nice story to use in a lesson, but not much more. I have heard that the older the book of scripture, the more apostasies it has experienced. I don't know for a fact if that is true, but it seems true to me. Anyway - I will probably finish Genesis and move on to Isaiah or Ezekiel. I am really looking forward to reading the stories of Joseph in Egypt.
One day you better take me to eat a Hellburger.
Love,
Tab
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