Hey,
So this week was another great week. Randy was set with a baptismal date for the 20th of June. He has progressed a bunch and learned a lot in the last couple of weeks. He is going out of town soon for two weeks so that is a bummer but as soon as he's back we will continue to teach and help him to be baptized. His kids hopefully will have a baptismal date soon. Cheyenne is doing well. We are going to start the new member lessons very soon.

Yesterday the Bronsons' water heater broke. We had cold showers this morning. It wasn't very pleasant but I survived :) Then we got to help take the old one out and put a new one in. The only problem was that the water heater is in the attic. That put an exciting twist on the situation. Fortunately no one got hurt. Have you ever installed one in someone's attic, dad?

Sorry this ones a little short. I am glad you all are doing well. That is awesome about William Tyndale. I have heard a bunch about him out here but I didn't know we were related. Cool cool. Good job on all yall's accomplishments. Thanks for the card mom. It was funny. Have an awesome week and stay close to the Lord.

Love,
Elder Gray

Progressing

Hey,

Well another week has passed by and I'm still here. We had a really good week with our numbers. We taught 29 total lessons. Usually we have around 20-25 I believe. We also had a bunch of new investigators. Sadly a couple have dropped off already. If they're not elect, we just have to move on and later on down the road they will be ready. We receive a couple referrals from they ward members. The other week we received eight from one lady in the ward. We have been able to contact two of them. One was interested and the other wasn't. We are also trying to visit some recent converts in the ward each week. Sadly, all the ones that were baptized this last November and December are inactive currently. But with some hard work we can bring them back.

On Saturday we did something that was a little scary, to us at least. There is a part member family in the ward that needed help vacuuming their house. The mom was in the hospital for surgery. Her mom was coming over to help around the house but is allergic to dogs. So they needed their whole house vacuumed to get rid of the dog hair. The husband wasn't doing it so she called some sisters in the ward to help. The sisters couldn't do it right then so they ended up calling us to help. So we went over there when nobody was home and vacuumed the whole downstairs. The husband wasn't home so we were afraid he was going to show up any minute. He doesn't like the missionaries because they weirded him out a while back. Apparently they would always sing him a song when they came over and he thought that was weird. So anyways we were really glad that he didn't walk in on us when we were there. He would not have liked that at all.

So anyways that was the excitement of the week. Oh also Randy, the guy that came with his two kids last week, came with them again this week. They really enjoy church. They are all progressing and learning tons. We are going to commit them for baptism when we go over on Wednesday.

Os amo.

Con Amor,

Elder Gray

P.S. Cheyenne got confirmed yesterday. She asked me to do that too so it was pretty cool

Awesome Sunday

Hey,

We had an awesome Sunday. Five investigators came to church. That is more than we have had in a long time. Four of them were surprises too so that was even better :) One of them came with two of his kids and they liked it. The other one that came was one that we had basically done all we can. We decided to just put her on the back burner for a couple weeks, but then she showed up to church so now she is back in our sights. Cheyenne was baptized yesterday. I got to baptize her so it was a pretty neat experience. She had originally said that she wanted her home teacher to baptize her so when she said she wanted me to, it was a big surprise. Everything went off without a hitch. We had a really good week overall. Lots of lessons, new investigators, referrals, etc.....

That's awesome to hear about the family and all the things going on. Good job at state! Are you going to Albuquerque? I am proud of both the boys and girls teams. Hard work always pays off. It seems like teams with a good medley or 4x400m are well balanced teams and do well overall. I'm excited that Justin gets to march with his team in the opening ceremonies too. That was always fun to do.

Well I hope you all have the best week. Stay safe and stay cool ;)

Love,

Elder Gray

Visualize Success

Hey,

Thanks for the pics. They are great and funny. It was really awesome talking to you all on Sunday. I really enjoyed hearing about Justin's, Erik's, Ashley's..........just everyone's accomplishments in all parts of life. Good job! You all make me proud to be part of this family.

So not to much has happened since we last talked. As you know, Cheyenne is getting baptized on Sunday. Everything seems to be pretty much in order and ready for that to happen. We have an awesome new investigator. We were knocking on some doors and we ran into a lady that we work with when we go to the thrift store to volunteer. She let us right in. She is looking for direction in her life and she is pretty awesome.

I'm sorry I don't have too much time but I hope you all have an awesome week. Good luck at state and run/cheer your hardest :) One thing that I found really helps is to visualize success. Visualize yourself running the best race of your life and passing people and so on. I guess everyone has their own things that work but that worked for me. Os amo muchisimo.

Con Amor,

Elder Gray

Perfect love casts out all fear

Hey,

My week went really great. I enjoyed translating your Spanish. It was good. Did someone help you or are you just awesome at Spanish now? ;) (It's called "google translator" ha ha...I typed up a letter in English and had google translator turn it into Spanish for me to send to Chris. LOL)

That's awesome about Ash and Erik getting elected. They will do awesome. I am very happy for Erik recovering so well and being able to do more things. I know that the Lord really blessed him. He blesses all of us so much.

Speaking of blessings, someone just moved into our ward that is pretty much prepared for baptism. She just needs to get married and so most likely she will be baptized at the end of the month. Her husband is pretty awesome. He is a super good chef and he works for a video game company (W.O.W. administrator for Blizzard Entertainment). We are super excited for her but right now her fiance hasn't expressed much interest. Hopefully that will change soon. Also, Cheyenne will be getting baptized on either this Sunday or next Sunday. We are talking to her tonight to finalize that date. She had her interview last week and she passed. She is a sweet girl.

This week I was reminded of something really important. First of all that perfect love casts out all fear. I was having a hard time talking effectively to people lately. Then when I realized what it was that was holding me back, it made all the difference. Also, another thing, If you want something to get done, just do it. At times we sit there passively and wait for things to happen. But time and time again I have seen that we get so much more accomplished when we make things happen.

♪Happy Anniversary, happy anniversary, happy anniversary, haaaappy anniversary♪

I love you all and look forward to talking next week. Stay strong

Love,

Elder Gray

P.S. Hey transfers are next week. Also, I was thinking that 8 o clock (7pm your time) Sunday night would be the best time to call. Is that going to work? Let me know real quickly if that won't work.

P.S.S. Yes its starting to get hot here. Low 90's and humid