August 11, 2009: Letter to Alicia

Elder Watts and Elder Jeffries
Hey Alicia!Things are going good. I got the package you sent. It was great, I loved it, thank you so much! My blog looks great...does everyone know about it? Tell Dallin happy birthday for me. Happy anniversary too! Wow, 15 years!? Hey that reminds me, can you get me a list of everyones birthdays and dates of other events like anniversaries? I don't want to miss anything. It sounds like you had a great trip. I wish I could be there to see all the family that has been there the past few weeks. Take lots of pics and send them to me! :) I'm glad you got the ice cream recipe. Let me know how you like it. Missionary life is good. It has it's moments but other than that it is good. I sent mom a letter in the mail telling all about the people we are teaching, and how a normal day goes for me so have mom show you. The baptism for Carlis Scott that was supposed to be this last Saturday didn't happen. It is postponed 4 weeks. We want to make sure she isn't just doing it for welfare purposes. She seemed like a golden investigator and all the lessons were going well, but then she got caught drinking. We want to make sure it is a solid conversion and not just a welfare dig. Bummer huh? We ran into this lady the other day and we started talking to her about the church and she said that she wasn't interested, and told us the way she got the missionaries to stop coming to her house was by answering the door naked! Hahaha. I'm glad we weren't those missionaries. She wasn't even that good looking anyway lol. ;) Most of our teaching in the apartments, where most of the people there are not very well off, and are pretty poor. I've found that it's the people like that who are more receptive to our message and the Gospel rather than wealthy people. It's humbling. The people are so nice and want more in their lives...the Gospel. When we walk down the street people honk and wave at us all the time, and usually at least once a week someone pulls over and gives us money! The Tidwells bought me a cd that I had mentioned I had liked. I was asking where I could find it to buy, and then the next thing I knew, they had gotten it for me. We are going to their house again for dinner tonight at 4pm. There's more info in the letter to mom about the area and who we are teaching. I'll try to just send some good juicy stories next week, or I'll try to write one if I have time. I love you and hope yall are doing good. The church is true!!! Oh hey I sent you a letter so it should be coming in the mail soon. Talk to ya next week!~Elder Watts