Sehr familie und freunds

Holy moly it has been a week since I last wrote?! Man time flies out here! So first off we had a super packed week.

So Tuesday we just had a couple appointments with members of the ward. Bishop goes to see them every Tuesday with us, and there is a nonmember in 2 of the 3 regulars, so we get lessons with member presents from those! :) But the real miracle on Tuesday came with a guy named Lance. He lives in the same house as a sister in our ward who got tracted into and baptized a month later. Her conversion was a miracle find, and they were totally led by the Spirit. But we tracted into Lance and got a return appointment. Then when we showed up there, I was of little faith and expected it to fall through like every appointment we have. But I was wrong! I was very humbled by it! So we went in, and he actually read the whole Restoration pamphlet, did the additional studies at the end, AND read the reading we assigned to him! He says he doesn't see why the Book of Mormon isn't true, but said he wants to know more before being baptized! Saweeeeet!

Then Wednesday I had my new missionary training. It was super cool to see all my buddies from the MTC, and hear President Clements speak. He is a wizard, plain and simple. He is so inspired it is just incredible. Immediately following the training, Elder Clark and I had our AP exchange. I was with Elder Neeley for the evening. We went and taught a Kenyan couple that was baptized like 3 days earlier, and we talked about enduring to the end and the Sacrament. It was an awesome experience to be with the veterans! Elder Neeley goes home in like two weeks, but he is still very much focused on the work! The APs are a super awesome fun group to be with! (there is 3 of them).

Then on Thursday we headed to St Cloud for a District Meeting. Oh by the way my Zone Leader is Elder Mattison, (Dad this is Max Mattison's nephew). The Zone Leaders are hilarious and I love them to death! And after the meeting, we had the most amazing thing in the entire world other than a baptism! CHIPOTLE!!!!!!! There is one in St Cloud and i cried with joy as I ate the most wonderful thing on the planet! Anyways that was cool so ya.

Friday we had another awesome miracle! We were out tracting, and we got let in by a Catholic family who kicked us out when we invited them to be baptized (can't handle the truth). So as we were walking up the street, we both just turned around. We saw like a black hooded figure walking in the darkness. Turns out he really is black, and he is like one of 15 in the whole city. Anyways we start talking to him, and he says, "I love your church! I used to meet with the missionaries back in California, and I love the prophet and I watch General Conference!" We were dumbfounded obviously! So we are going to be meeting with him next week since this week we will be in St Cloud from Tuesday morn until Friday afternoon with exchanges and Zone Conference. So super pumped about that one!

Saturday I can't really remember who we taught haha. But I do remember some guy proceeded to tell us we follow Satan in the darkness. lol. But we did meet a guy who gave us some wicked awesome fishing lures for free. Apparently they are like 30 dollar lures. So I have them hanging in the pad.

Sunday was the Primary Program, and it was incredible! There is only like 20 or 30 kids in the ward, so it is WAY smaller than Hawes ward. But the Spirit is there still the same! Then last night we went out tracting, and almost ran into a Bible study! I wish we woulda gone there like an hour earlier and showed them some good stuff about how they are wrong haha. But they were super nice people. The thing I have noticed about the people here is that everyone definitely appreciates what we are doing. It is cool to hear that and all, but they just don't realize how important our message is. One day they will accept it, in this  life or the next. Then we met a really awesome guy named C---, He let us in (which is rare) and told us all his life troubles. He split up with his fiance, and she took the baby, all because of alcohol. That was like a couple weeks ago. And so he just moved to Alex, and is searching for Christ. We taught the Restoration, and when we invited baptism he said he will come to church first! We love gators at church! And then we brought up the Book of Mormon he said he would read it cover to cover this week! WHAT! It was crayzay! So we are expecting some good stuff!!

Well this week we have an exchange with St Cloud Elders Tuesday, then Zone Conference Wednesday morn, the 48 hour exchange with the Zone Shepherds until Friday! Then ward Halloween party Friday night! Then all the sudden it is Saturday! Then there will only be 1 week left in the transfer! Then just 26 more transfers! haha that is a big number... But seriously time flies!!

Well people I KNOW the Church is true! I can't wait to see people accept the message and enter into their first covenant with Heavenly Father! People are looking for truth, and we have it! We just need to find those people! This church has been restored and i am on a mission to share it.

'Ofa lahi atu!

Elder Evans

PS Send me some speech learning materials. Elder Clark is just like every Utah fool and calls ChipoTLe ChipoLTe. The T is before the L, not after :)