02/17/2009 email

Here is a summary of my week! Hope you enjoy and have a good week! Keep doin work and spreading the good news of the gospel!!
Monday...we just had a usual p-day. We tried to play basketball, but couldn't because there was some sort of testing at the church all day. But that night we went and saw 2 investigators..one of them is named William M. and he is a really smart guy that knows alot about the gospel!! The bad thing is he doesn't believe that he has to go to church so thats the barrier that we have to get around and show him from the bible that it teaches that we should assemble together to worship. The other guys named John E. and he is really interested in Joseph Smith so we talked to him alot about that.
Tue- we had district meeting...the zone leaders came so I got to see Elder Russell which was fun!! We learned alot from District meeting and I'm so excited for this transfer. We could be seeing some good things happening in Montrose soon!!!
Wed-We street contacted in the morning and we found a family- the Birchards. They have 3 kids.
Thur- We did service for a little bit at the historical society. Then we went and taught the Birchards again and taught them the whole restoration lesson!! That afternoon it was so windy and freezing and there was like hail snow stuff that hurt when it hit you cuz the wind was blowing so hard. We tracted in it a little bit. Then we went to the Gregory's house and had a lesson with Chris again which was fun. That night we went with Brother Parker(who lives above us) and saw Irish and Sarah again and taught them about temples.
Friday-we had weekly planning in the morning, then we went out to Choconut and worked out there and did some tracting in the boonies. It was sooooo cool cuz there are soooo many stars. I have never seen so many stars in my life.
sat- probably the longest day of my mission so far haha. nothing went right. We tracted and no one was home. But sunday was a new day!
Sunday- we had church and it went really well. Then we went and tracted in the afternoon and saw Irish and Sarah again. Sunday night we went and spent the night at the Susquehanna Elders apartment which was fun.
Monday- We tried to go bowling but it was closed. So we went to the arcade and played pool!! We did a best of 7 series and Elder Argyle and I scratched on the 8 ball in the 7th game and lost the series. So we had to buy the other Elders pizza. Last night I went with Elder Alley (they came to montrose cuz they had to borrow our truck and go down to Harrisburg today, their truck is in the shop) so I went with him and did some tracting and went and saw John E. again..but he wasn't feeling good and pretty much just told us his problems. So not too fun.
Much love
Elder Black