August 13, 2008

Hey family and friends,

Thanks Bartholomews for the package I Loved it! Thank you Jenn for letter it is by far the most creative one i've recieved ... it took me 1minute and 28 seconds to put the pages together. :)
Olney is going good i love it out here. They weather has been a bit better the last week. Upper 80's instead of 90's so nice! I played cricket for the first time there is a recent convert in our ward named Indi and she is from Sri Lanka and her family loves playing so we played with them it was so fun. I'm really not good at it at all but its fun to play.
So we had the most amazing day yesterday the Lord was guiding us everywhere. We got 7 new investigators! Elder Brooks and I were shocked the Lord had prepared these people for us it was so great. I'm really excited to teach them. So Monday we cut up a tree it was so fun i love service out here. There is a family in our ward and they are remodeling and the wife got up in the attic and wired up the can lights in her kitchen. Then we she was getting out of the attic she slipped fell through the ceiling and fell 9 feet to straight concrete ... she broke her leg and was in the hospital a week. During this time a huge storm came and broke a big limb off their tree ha ha they are kinda struggling. Anyway it was good to cut up their tree.
K yesterday while we were tracting we say a 4 point deer!! I was so blown we were walking down this huge driveway and all of the sudden we see it and it looks at us and bounds away it was so great. I've also seen a coyote and a thousand squirrels and bunnies. Its exciting everytime.
OH! So there is this less active in our ward named Jerry and he is the most amazing man. He used to work on mines and lilitary anti-personell wepons, then he decided he didn't like that went back to school and studied medicine taught at NYU and then started working again and invented the vaccine for whooping cough! He is so brilliant he has two or three majors a phd and all sorts of amazing and he was so humble about it all.
So the latest on Matt we are working with him and he is committed to keeping the law of chastity, and the Word of Wisdom, he is so great and so humble he says he hasn't received an answer to his prayer to know if the BOM is true but feels at peace with everything more than he ever has before. He said he just knows everything will work out in his life and feels at peace with it all. I call that faith but you know. We will be issuing a baptism date soon.
We are teaching a recovering alcoholic named kathy and she is so great. She is so humble. She is truly searching for the truth. I hope she will have the faith to find it. I love this work and the chance i have to help people change their lives i'm so grateful i have been given the chance to stand by and watch as the spirit converts people. I hope i can find more people to hear the word, people who are humble enough to recognize truth and feel the spirit of God.
I love you all talk to you next week
-Elder Ammon Medina