I saw my first gecko in Texas!!

We had a day with a high of like twenty nine degrees, and the humidity was at ninety percent at one point... What's up with that?

  

So this week we got a couple of good referrals. We pretty much had to start from scratch on our teaching pool because nobody was progressing or doing anything, and these guys were really great. One's name is Chandler and he's dating a mormon girl in Salt Lake. He is a landscape designer, and works in the building. He also owns some cattle on a ranch a little ways away. He is Methodist by faith, and very firm there, and has a couple little problems with the Church of Jesus Christ, but is open and willing to learn and pray about it. He concedes that he may not be right, and is very open and excited to learn because he feels he owes it to his girlfriend and to the church in general to at least give it a shot.  The other man is Toby. His brother-in-law's family is mormon, and he considers them family. He feels that he should learn more about it because it's part of his family now, and also notes that every Latter-Day Saint he's ever known has been an upstanding person, so it's got to have something to do with the religeon. They both are excited to learn, and want to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it to know if it's true, because that would be a significant peice of information. Toby actually is starting from the title page and wants to read the whole thing. So that's all basically super awesome :)

 

Our new place is pretty cool. We get our own room, bathroom, and basically the upstairs loft to study. Brother Glory (the owner) has travelled a lot with the air force, so he has a bunch of cool decorations from around the world, but mostly Japan.  It's sort of funny becaus eI was looking for a frying pan to cook some eggs, but he basically just has woks. That's cool though, because they are great for cooking, which I do from time to time (not often, though, because it's pretty time consuming if you're cooking anything good). 

 

Yesterday was stake conference here, and it was a regional broadcast by President Monson, Elder Ballard, and President Monson's daughter (who's name escapes me at this time...). They pretty much talked about keeping the doctrines simple; so faith, repentance, baptism, and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost. Lot's of people get way into other things and forget these basic principles. Everything else in the church is basically just garnish upon these things, for that is Christ's gospel. President Monson also talked about rescuing those who are lost. There are so many people who just need the warm hand of fellowship to be extended, and they will come back into the fold. Though the Gospel has left their lives, it isn't necessarilly gone from their hearts.  Remember those who have strayed, and be their friends so that you can invite them back into Christ's fold.

 

Running pretty low on time now... Let me know if you've got any specific questions or anything you want to know. Talk to you next week :)

 

Love,

Elder Katzakian