Week 39!

Hey Mom!

Well, this week wasn't perfect, but it was 100% an improvement!  It'took a lot of talking, and studying, and thinking.  But we made some changes in our approach, and I think it will help.  

I think with the rainy weather, people got colder, haha, because no one will let us come in. So we spent personal and comp studies, and even weekly planning just trying to figure out how to make our contacts better. We came up with the idea that people here really don't get the point of another church (because there are TONS of churches down here) so we decided we were gonna start bringing around a little DVD player we have with us, and when people try and deny us, or give us a "Hmm...does it take a lot of time?" we say "Hey well we have a 7 minute video that explains a lot about our church, do you have 7 minutes?" and they always say sure. So then we just watch the video, and then ask if they liked anything, and almost every time, they open up. Especially since the video talks a lot about happy families and people love that stuff.  So we have been contacting a lot with that.  We are still studying every day ways to make our teaching and contacts more simple so that even small children can understand.  Hopefully we are getting somewhere.

So that's about what we have been up to this week! Still having a lot of fun.  That's something Elder Pond has taught me about contacting. Contacting kind of sucks, so you just need to have fun with it.  We have realized that when the people see us having fun with is, they see that we are just normal people, and not just robots with ties.

Thanks for everything mom! Thanks for the letter.  I hope everything is going well at home!  Sorry that Collin turned 18, I'm sure he didn't mean to.  Don't worry, I'll be home in no time, and I'll hang out with
you guys.  Love you!