Letter #52 . . . Hump Day Week!!

Fam bam!

Happy Birthday Spence! Hope you have a great day! You're getting bigger and bigger every time I see you, it's crazy. Yay momma, bout time you and paps got a little vacation together!! You should definitely get the most out of it and stay until Wednesday. :)

I'm sad I didn't get to see this date night! Park sent a little clip of it, looked like a fun Night! That's super awesome lots of friends showed up to it. I'll miss the next one too!? Britt was looking good in those dance pics! How's he liking the dances? I loved 'em.

So the 16 year old investigator I talked about last time who is super duper solid, is actually a different girl than our other 16 year old investigator haha. The one we've been meeting with recently is Taylor, who's super awesome. We had an amazing lesson with her on Wednesday. We went over the first part of the plan of Salvation and then talked about baptism. We read 2nd Nephi 31 and talked about baptism with her. She said she wants to be baptized but wants to be sure it's the right thing to do before she does. We invited her to seriously read the BOM with an open heart and pray to know if it's true. We showed her the Because Of Him video at the end, and she said she felt an overwhelming peace that she'd never felt, that suddenly made all of the things we were teaching her make sense. So Cool!! 

Tanner and Elder Griffiths

The other 16 year old one is Abby who I mentioned a few weeks ago that's the bishop's son's girlfriend. She's rarely in town so it's been tough to meet with her. We also are meeting with a girl named Cassie who's playing soccer at the college here, she's progressing pretty well!  We had dinner with her at the Bishop's house as well since she's a friend of their daughter. We showed that same Because of Him video, and her face lit up, and she said she was blown away. The spirit is working with her slowly! We're also working with another girl going to college here, named Jacinda. We've met with her a few times, but isn't really taking our commitment to read and pray about the Book of Mormon very seriously. She's just kinda curious about our religion. Hopefully she will read it! Haha so I guess everyone we're working with are girls around our age... That makes it fun haha. They're all solid, some more interested than others at the moment, but I could see them all joining the church eventually!

Well, I'm reading the Book of Mormon again, and I'm at Jacob 4! I love that book, and know that it's true!! Grandpa sent me a digital version of his book, learning to love the Book of Mormon, and I've been reading it a ton! Mostly all the extra articles he writes about the translation, plates, language of the book etc. Ive read most all of them. Man he is amazingly smart and spiritually in tune! Love him so much. 

Love you all, can't believe I've been out a Year! Time is flying. :) 

Tan  

PS I've been working out lots, and have gained almost 25 pounds, and am not as skinny, and appear less like I'm in a concentration camp. So that's a plus! :) 

Dressed in hump day stuff and . . .

Valentine's stuff!  You can see the extra pounds! :)