Layton, UT Week 2

Hey! Yeah it seems like it's been forever since I have heard from anyone...I guess it has been 2 weeks. I am doing well. That's cool that my mission president sent you the pictures, hopefully they looked okay. Haha yeah President & Sis. Olsen are short, I wasn't standing on anything. It sounds like Alicia is doing a good job on my blog, I can't wait to see pics of it. She told me she was going to send me a package. If yall want to send anything, send it to the mission office and then they will forward it to my apartment, that way, my address will be the same during my whole mission. I'm glad you saw the church news...cool huh! A member told me about it but didn't have it anymore. We went to the distribution center and I found it so I bought 3 copies haha. :) It sounds like it's been nice to have the Denver Watts' there. How did Elaine and Sarah like their trip? Tell them they need to send me pictures!!! Is Grandpa home now? Is he doing any better? I'm keeping everyone in my prayers. We went to the Ogden Temple for an endowment session this morning which was really nice. I could really feel the Spirit in the Celestial room. I put everyone's names on the prayer role, along with some friends. I'm so sad about Meg. I knew she probably wouldn't be there when I came home. I didn't think that I would be this sad about it, but I guess sometimes you don't know what you've got until you've lost it. My companion Elder Jeffrey is cool. Like I said before he is from Mantika California and also has 2 brothers & 2 sisters, he's the oldest though. He has been out for 8 months. We get along pretty well, we got in our first fight though...it was not fun, but it's all good now. We don't have a car. :( We walk and ride bikes. I think it's good for me though cause I've lost about 7 pounds. The living arrangement are nice. We live in a pretty new 2 story apartment by ourselves. We have our own washer and dryer too, except for the dryer door is broken so we have to put a chair in front of it to keep closed haha...pretty ghetto but I can't complain. We have 2 bedrooms (but we have to sleep in the same room. My companion talkes in his sleep hard core and snores) and we have plenty of closet space. We were able to clean our apartment which was very much needed. It could still use some cleaning but it's good enough for now. We usually have dinner every night. All of the dinners have been really good. I'm thankful for the members and their willingness to feed us, even though some of it is really gross. We go out to lunch a lot and usually get it paid for by members that see us there. We went to Chili's the other day with some other Elders and some guy paid for all of us. :) Then yesterday we were walking down the street and some lady stopped and gave us $20. Another guy at Wal-mart gave us $20 too! Haha. We get honked and waved at all the time, and get a lot of rides. The members are great here. We went bowling today with our zone which was fun. We only had to pay for shoes and the rest was freeee! We were talking to this guy the other day and asked him if he'd ever heard of Ether (like the scriptures), and he was like, "Like the drug?" Hahaha. Anyway, I just thought that was funny. We talked to this lady yesterday and she said she was sick of missionaries coming to her house and told us that she scared the missionaries away last time by answering the door naked lol. I'm glad we found that out before she actually did it to us. Whew. Okay so he's a cool experience I had. We kind of have some new investigators. Well, I guess they are just inactive but whatever. Anyway, the guy was kinda stand off ish the first time, but we went over a second time and we could tell there was something different with him. His girlfriend told us he was going through some things and suggested giving him a blessing. He accepted so we gave him a blessing. While we were doing it I was praying so hard that he would feel the Spirit or at least something. I just really wanted him to feel something. Anyway, after we were done, he was crying!!!!! It was amazing. We had 7 ppl with baptismal dates but they had to be moved so we only have 2 now. It's all good though. The church is true! I have to be honest. These past 2 weeks I've really had to rely on my faith and Heavenly Father and everyone's prayers. I'm getting the hang of it more, but it's still hard and everything. With time things will get better. I'm just so thankful for Spirtitual experiences and miracles to keep me from getting down or overwhelmed. Things are going well. The members are great and the area is good too. We do a lot of work in the apartments. (Skyline and Stonehedge...but we call it stoner-hedge haha cause of all the smokers, etc.) I love you guys and miss you! Your in my prayers everyday. Keep me updated on everything okay!? :) Email me back and give my email to everyone so they can write me, or give them my mailing address. Oh and is Jenni putting these on my facebook and keeping it updated? She can edit them if she thinks she needs too. I'm so thankful for all of you, and for all the help that you have given me to be here on my mission. Love you forever! Hope to hear from you soon!

Love,

Elder Watts,
Micheal,
or Hater.

P.S.-Here's some quotes/slang I've heard lately:

-Christ in the center of our home, a guest at every meal, a silent listener to every converstation.
-The secret to having it all, is knowing you already do.
-Perhaps faith is not faith until it has been tried.
-Cool: Constipated Over-rated out-of-style loser (haha this was from some kid)
-Kick your trash (Ex. He kicked my trash at laser tag)
-We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.
-It was not what they possesed that gave them strength, but what they knew. ~Pioneers
-At Chili's we don't eat till we're full, we eat till we're tired. (Haha Elder Koegler said that when we went to eat there. It was funny, you just had to be there.)
-Thankamony (Giving thanks and a testimony)
-Newlywed Nearlydeads (Some wards here have either really young ppl or really old ppl so them call them newlywed nearlydead wards haha)
-Trunky (Homesick or thinking about home, etc.)
-Teachify (Teaching and testifying)
-Breavity (Being brief while teaching together back and forth)

P.S.-I'm still gonna sent those cd's of pics and videos. I had Brother & Sister Drake make them for me and I'm getting them today so I'll try to send them asap.

Love ya bye!