Dear Family,
Two days ago I woke up and looked out the window and saw and world coverd with just a very tiny bit of frost. Frost on our cars, and the leaves. Just about the most you would ever get in the pheonix valley. The weather now is about the weather of Mesa at its coldest average, and it is only going to get colder. It is GREAT!
In out apartment our heating system are these big coil things inside of a cage. When you turn it on it glows red, like a stove top, and it smells funky, like a curling iron. I am scared of them...
Anyway. Wow. None of the people I talked about last week are progressing now. We might still be working with them but not really as much.
We are teaching 2 new families. FAMILIES! This hast to be the first time I have had the opportunity to teach an entire investigator family. I has taught part-member families and less active families but never investigator families. It is really cool. I have to admit, when I read the parts is PMG were it says "strive to find and teach families" I always thought, "ya but the only people who we can find and teach are individuals." Now I am actually teaching an entire family.
The First family is a small one. A Husband and Wife and their little 3 year old. They are really friendly and fun. Our main concern with them is that they look at us as learning and not as searching. The wife asked us if she COULD get re-baptized (not that she SHOULD or NEEDED TO) and thats how they are looking at it right now, option for more learning.
The other family is a little bigger. There's the Parents, and their two daughters, ages 16 and 12. They are awesome. They have invited us over to thanksgiving dinner (that is our 3rd invite). They have been looking for a solution to their family drama and they feel like getting into a church will do it. We plan on extending a baptismal invitation tomorrow when we meet with them.
Apart from that life is good. Hope all is great in AZ. I learned this week the Mormon population statistics of the states. TN is .70%, that is 1 in 145 people. AZ is 5.6% or 1 in 17. Idaho is 27%. And Utah is 67% or 1 in 1.47. Wow. AZ vs. TN, that is a huge difference. Utah to AZ that is even more insain! TN to Utah is like nothing! Yesterday I saw 1 tenth of all the active mambers of the entire state of TN at stake comference. That is a huge chunk! In AZ at an average stake comference it would have been 1/88th of the active mombers of the entire state. Different worlds. But still the same. It felt like any other stake comference I had ever been too, the only difference is the size of the area.
-elder von sowards
