Letter #90 . . . two cool miracles in the same day!

Hey hey hey!
I've loved my time serving with Elder Lauritsen! He's been one of my
fave companions. We made t-shirts for our Zone and they're sweet!
Claire looked so dang cute in her Halloween costume! She's getting so
big!

Hey, it's the temple! :)

It's been pretty awesome with smartphones and social media. I really think this is going to be the way the church starts to explode as a
whole... we saw some pretty cool miracles in the past few days.  Started Saturday morning. We decided to go play basketball at the church, which is random because we've only done that once or twice this whole transfer. After we were done shooting, a guy named Bill Steele walks in, he was there for an orchestra practice they just so happened to be doing at the Mormon church. He's a super nice baptist guy that believes the Mormon church to be the closest to Christ's original church! Later that night we went and checked out his violin shop where he repairs violins for a living at his house. We were there for a few hours, getting to know him, playing violins and guitars, and teaching him about the restoration of the church! It was such a cool experience.  He's this 73 year old dude with the purest heart ever. What's cool too is that he's been going to his baptist church for his whole life, and that church's preacher just left.  His church vanished because of it, so now he's looking for a new church, and we happened to meet him at this time. He promised us that he'd read the Book of Mormon! Also he gave me a nice guitar, TO KEEP! And he gave Lauritsen a cello!!!

Another amazing thing that happened on THE SAME DAY, we received a
call from a lady named Frances who needed help moving a bookcase. We
went and talked to her and came to find she too had been looking for
another church, and was really touched by all the Mormon friends she's
had over the years. That's what triggered her interest in the church.
She said, before we even taught her the restoration, that she was at
the point where she knew that the Mormon church was where she needed
to be! We taught her about the Restoration. It was one of the coolest
lessons of my whole mission. She looked like she was listening so
intently. Such a cool experience. The mission is awesome. That lady
was in another area tho, so we referred her over to some sister
missionaries in that area.
 
Hahaha Dad's vids had me dying. That dude is hilarious.
 
Love y'all
 
Tan

PS.  Some member's sent me some videos of some of Tanner's music experiences this past week . . .   An original song at a member's house and A little jam session with Elder Lauritsen and members!