May 7th 2012
Well it sounds like everyone is having a good time. Maybe
Porter grew too fast and that’s why his back is jacked. Jackie sent me the
picture of the family in front of the tree and porter is taller than all the
girls. Braden is too but Porter is young for that tall! You should get it
checked out. That’s awesome about Braden and Hayley getting their blessings! I
have loved mine and it has helped me out on my mission knowing what i need to
do and how and what not. So that’s cool. That would be cool if Braden was a General
Authority. And as for Hayley. Man two dates with Brian? That seems fun. He
would be a cool brother in law. I got David's announcement for graduation on Thursday
which was the day he graduated so that was fun. It was actually kind of funny
well no it wasn't but on my birthday i didn't get crap in the mail. The day was
actually kind of a bum day altogether but then on Thursday i got a bunch. I got
Jackie's parcel in the mail a letter from a friend and David's announcement. It’s
like they always say, Better late then never, but never late is better. So yeah
that was good. I got my blue suit dry cleaned last week and it looks pretty
good. It’s a little big on me but it’s a nice suit. On Monday night we had
dinner with our ward mission leader and it was fun. His family is pretty
awesome and it was a good time. I had to sing my Phantom of the Opera for them
as well. I think about half the ward has heard it now... People are starting to
film it now. It’s really not that good. I just get into a lot. If you can remember
the piston choir concerts with Mr. C-Rap. It’s even better than that. Tuesday
was fun. We had a Zone Leader Conference. I like spending time with all the
other zone leaders and President Lewis. It was a good meeting. We visited a lot
of people this week and we saw a little bit more success. Wednesday was my
birthday. We had a cool little miracle in the morning. So Dewey Ray writes to
the missionaries in the ward pretty often and he puts some scripture studies on
the back. Well one day i was reading through one and it was similar to a lot of
the others. He said it helped his mission baptize 1000 people in a year. So i
thought i would piece a few of them together and call it the Bible/Book of
Mormon connection. So we made pictures and stuff and had the scriptures marked
and we have been trying to share it with a few people. Basically it takes
someone through the bible showing what it is who wrote it and stuff and then
you show that there were people in America and since God loves his children
(which you use scriptures showing that he loves them anywhere in the world) he
would raise prophets there. So we went tracting in the morning which usually
isn't too effective but we didn't have anything else to do so we did it and it
was in a nicer neighborhood which usually doesn't result in much but we were
following the spirit and we went there and met a guy named John. He was old and
invited us in right away. He got us some water and told us he was a Catholic
Bishop. He asked if we were going to share our message with him or if he could
share one with us so we said well how about both and he said ok. So we shared
our bible/book of Mormon connection lesson. Some of the things we
read in the bible he didn't know and he didn't even know where the book
of Mormon came from and who wrote it. He was amazed and intrigued. He
then shared his message which the Catholic Church sends to his Ipad every day
and it had to do with Paul and another person in the bible being set apart to
preach the gospel. He looked at us and said that's what we were. We
were set apart to preach the gospel and we were sent to him. So that was cool.
But then he said he wanted to invite us to a study group he has
every Wednesday night but it wasn't at his house that week so he
didn't want to be impolite to the people so he said the next time it’s at his
house he wants us to come share it with his whole group of about 8 couples. He
said they need to know about the book of Mormon because people don't
understand where it came from. So it was pretty cool. The rest of the week was
good. We were able to teach a few new people and reach many of our goals.
Things were going slow but we can see that they are steadily picking up which
is good because it feels like our success will be lasting
and consistent in the future rather than just spurts of baptisms here
or there. So yeah it was pretty good. So this week on mother’s day i will call
around 4:30 or 5. I don't want to Skype because i am still on my
diet... But i will call. I am excited for you to come here and meet some of my
friends! Well i hope everyone has a good week. Love You!
Sorry it’s so short. I will see you soon enough. Next week i
won't email till Tuesday and by then Mom and Dad will be here! Man it’s gone by
so fast and its not slowing down these few weeks.
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Love, Elder Tyler Pete Arnett
Love, Elder Tyler Pete Arnett
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