email 8/27/09

Hey everybody! We are going to the Pitts zoo today so I gotta make it quick!
Thursday- After p-day was over we went and saw the Gonzales family and taught their 12 year old son whose name is Bay. It was fun and he is a cool kid. Then we went and visited 2 less active families.
Fri-In the afternoon we did tracting and found some good potential investigators. At night Elder Smith (my MTC comp) and Elder Olsen came and slept at our apartment and that was super fun.
Sat-We went and helped a non-member family move and it was really fun! We got to know them really well and they want to have us over for dinner so hopefully that works out.
Sun-We had meetings and church- and guess what? I had to give another talk. This time I was the youth speaker so I only had to talk for 5 minutes.
Mon-We had district meeting and talked about using our time wisely and being consistent. Elder Segura, one of the Assistants, talked about consistency and committed us all to become Peyton Manning-like consistent missionaries. So that's what we are trying to do. Then I went on exchanges with Elder Segura in Upper St. Clair, and saw lots of people and had tons of lessons. After dinner we were stopped and asked if we are the mormons and we said ya and she said that she had met with us before and wanted to meet again. So we went to her apartment with her and her brother and had milk and cookies. We had a super good lesson with them, they new what we were talking about and believed it!
Tue- Elder Segura and I did some tracting and then exchanged back and I went back to Beechview. Then Elder Mendoza and I went and saw the Charles family and had a lesson with them. I went on another exchange with Elder Ward who is a zone leader. I went down to Washington, PA and ironically enough that is where Matt Coronado goes to school. What is even crazier is that the Bishop of that ward know Matt Coronado cuz he teaches at that school. So they are gonna try and get in touch with him and I am gonna try and go down there and teach him. Cool huh!! So we had a really good days work down there.
Wed- I woke up and showered and stuff, and I went to put my contacts in and i couldn't see out of them. So I went to Elder Ward and asked him if he wore contacts and he was like yes, we figured out he had thrown mine away because he couldn't see. We went tracting and found 2 new investigators. Then I exchanged back to Beechview.
I love you all!! Have a great week and keep working hard!!
Love
Elder Black