September 15, 2009: Letter to Family

Hey everyone! This last week was a great week. We picked up 5 new investigators, had one baptism, and I get to baptize Carlis this Saturday!!! Ahh I'm really excited. One of our new investigators is named Trena. We've been trying to teach her for forever and she finally agreed. It's going well so far. Another one we picked up is named Ashley. She is a single mom in her 20's that lives in Stonehedge. We've taught her once and hope to meet with her again soon. She has a baptismal date for October 3rd. On Thursday I went on exchanges with Elder Quanstrom. We were at a doctors appointment for him all morning it seemed like. He's having some hard core headaches, etc. He goes home in a few weeks. He's so trunky it's rediculous. It's really annoying cause he always tells us how much time he has left. It's just going to make time go by slower for him. Whatever. Another one of the investigators we picked up is a 16 yr. old guy that is friends with a member in the Oak Hills ward. He seems pretty cool and open to the Gospel. On Friday we went to lunch with Bro. Child to Cafe Rio. That place is sooo good. We go there with him every week it seems like. After lunch we taught a lady named Sandy and when we asked if we could have a prayer with her, she said yes, but that when she prays she kneels in a circle and holds hands. Haha it was funny. I don't know if anything will happen with her though cause she's 7th day advenist. Right before that lesson with Sandy we saw someone get arrested in Stonehedge lol. It was funny. This is random but my companion and I say that we are the baptism crashers. Kinda like wedding crashers that go for the single women, but instead, we go for the non-members haha. Anyway, on Saturday Bro. & Sis Mathis took us out to lunch at Olive Garden. We had a hot artichoke spinach dip for the appetizer, I had Chicken Alfredo for the main dish, and then I had italian Chocolate Gelato for dessert. It was so good. I had been craving Olive Garden ever since we had it the day I went into the MTC. It was very nice of them to take us out. After that we did some work in the area, but at 4pm, we went to the church to start getting ready for Kaitlyn Hamblin's baptism. We had started filling the font earlier, but the fam needed help with other things. It was a great service, and about 40 people came. They even had a dinner for everyone at the church afterwards. On Sunday we gave a talk in the Oak Hills ward, taugh Young Mens in the Aspen Cove Ward, and taugh Relief Society for about 15 minutes in the YSA ward. We also got to participate in Kaitlyn's confirmation. Later that night we picked up more investigators. We have been having a lot of success from the members and from working with them. It's worth it to invest time in them. On monday I went on exchanges again with Elder Smith. It was a good day and we had another movie night with refreshements at a members home. We showed The Testaments and invited investigators to come. The Spirit was so strong there. Oh and Elder Smith and I got soaked in the rain earlier that day. It was fun though. We went to the Ogden Temple this morning and did an endowment session. It was nice. Then we went and got something to eat and went to Wal-Mart. We are going to the Tidwells for dinner tonight. Things here are going well. Our area is doing a lot better and we have baptisms set up for the next 4 weeks! My testimony is strong and I am doing well. I put all yalls name in the Temple every week and keep you in my thoughts and prayers daily. I love you and miss you guys. I hope to hear from you soon. The church is true!~Elder Watts