October 13

Questions:

1) Where did you watch the "Meet the Mormons" movie?

2) Did you go to the Post Office last Saturday?  There should be one letter and one package there for you!

3) How are your various investigators coming? 

4) What is in Bluff, if they don't have a grocery store?

5) When is the next transfer day, is it still October 20?

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Mom,

1) We watched it in Cortez, but just at the church on a projector for zone conference, not in a movie theater or anything.

2) Yes, I did get the letter but I haven't been able to get the package yet because there was no one at the desk on Saturday and today is Columbus Day and so it is closed today too. 

3) The investigators are all going pretty well. Unfortunately, not really any of them have attended church so they aren't progressing as much as we would like them to. 

4) A gas station, four restaurants - Twin Rocks, Cottonwood Steakhouse (which looks good but is pretty expensive, so Elder V and I are saving up so we can go get ribs there), and two small places I haven't been to, Dairy Cafe and Blue Moon Cafe - and four hotels/motels, the Bluff Fort, our church, and an Episcopalian church and that's just about it. 

5) Yup, transfers are a week from tomorrow and we'll find out this Saturday what's going on.

That's great you were able to see Meet the Mormons! It is truly such a good movie, and I'm glad to hear it's doing okay in the theaters. Park City sounds like a lot of fun! I remember riding on the rail trail up there with Dad when I was younger. Tell Gentry and Holly congrats for me! No more uniforms?! That's nuts! Aimee's probably glad, though.

Tiffany, who was on date for November 8th fell off of her date due to her not attending church, but we were guided by the spirit to her home last night and we got there and her sisters-in-law and their families who are members from Kayenta and Tempe were there and they were just talking about one of their sons and about how he has been having bad dreams at night and wanted him to have a blessing and we showed up 10 minutes later! We gave him a blessing, and her less active sister-in-law, and then we were inspired to talk to them about church yesterday which was testimony meeting. We said, "Since testimony meeting is such a wonderful experience, we would love to hold a small testimony meeting tonight with the 10-15 of us that are here in this home (about half of them were members)" and it was very powerful! Tiffany's two sisters-in-law bore beautiful and simple testimonies and Elder V and I shared two scriptures by the Spirit. The Spirit was strong in that room and we know it touched Tiffany's heart and thoroughly believe she will attend church this upcoming Sunday. The mission is a wonderful thing!

I love you all!

Elder Schaelling