November 10

My questions:

1) How are you doing in Bluff?

2) What is the weather like there?

3) Do you have fall foliage there?

4) How are your investigators doing?

5) Do you have an invitation for Thanksgiving dinner yet?

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Mom,

1) Things are going amazingly. So far I feel like the things I am witnessing in Bluff is the most success I've been blessed to be able to see since I've been on my mission, things are seriously coming together here. We were able to be blessed with 8 investigators at sacrament yesterday all from the reservation who drove 20-30 miles to Bluff to come to church (the second Sunday is a combined meeting with the Toda Ministry on the rez and the Bluff Branch). Three of them couldn't even speak English and so Sister Clark translated the service for them and it was a seriously spiritual and touching sacrament meeting. It was the best one of my mission. It just showed the amazing qualities of the Bluff Branch. And a less active lady named Nelia who is 80 years old and doesn't speak any English has been reactivated and we have been teaching her and listening to the Book of Mormon in Navajo with her and she is such an amazing and inspiring lady to meet with. There is a serious spirit about her whenever she prays. I'll definitely introduce you all to her whenever we visit the mission, she is the sweetest. She's the same lady we gave a blessing to a month or two ago. 

2) Weather is getting cooler but isn't too bad. Just kind of cold in the mornings and the daytime is 60 degrees most of the time.

3) Bluff the town has some leaves but the rest of the area doesn't. Really we spend about 90%+ of our time on the reservation, that's where most of the work is right now. Out of the 12-15 lessons we teach a week usually only one or two of them are in Bluff. 

4) Tiffany got married on Friday and she is doing fantastic! Keano and Pearlphina are doing great. We taught them on Friday and Pearlphina asked in her closing prayer if the Book of Mormon was true and said to God that if she finds out that it is true that she can't wait to tell all her family and friends about it. They weren't able to attend church yesterday because of a family reunion but they said they will make it this week. Cody made it to church and we pushed his date back to December 20th so we can work with him on some more stuff. We picked up a new investigator named Briannon who is engaged to a less active member here and we're planning on setting a date with her tonight for the 20th or 27th. 

5) Yes, the Gruettes here in Bluff are planning on having us over. They live here during the winter and in Mancos, CO in the summer so they just moved back about a month ago or less. 

It sounds like things are going really well back at home! I'm glad to hear that Karson was able to return to his mission and that Eric is getting to enjoy camping out. I don't think my camping in the RV was quite as intense as his. Here's some pictures of the area here. I love you all!

Love,
Elder Schaelling