Jan 29

Dear Family,

What a great week it has been. We have really seen the work here take
off. The mission goal for lessons is 20. The average is about 8-12.
This week Elder Mecham and I got 24!! Most of those were tracting
lessons but they were still good lessons.

The most exciting thing that happened this week was that we got a new
investigator!! Half of our work is with less actives. This is a huge
change for this mission. At Zone Conference this week President Morby
talked about how if we are investing that much time into working with
less actives then we need to draw on that bank and ask for referrals.
This is how we got our new investigator. Her name is Brianna and she
is 15 years old. She is a good friend of a less active family named
the Salleys. She looks to them as kind of parents because she hasn't
had the best family life. So we met with her for the first time on
Thursday and after the lesson asked her if she would be baptized and
she accepted. We met with her again on Saturday and we set a baptism
date for March 3rd. We were so excited!!! When she came to church
yesterday the ward really made her feel welcome. After sacrament Cajsa
Strommer (love that family) came over and said ready to go to class.
That was the last time that we saw her until after church. The young
women took over which really is the way that it should be. While she
was in class she told everyone that she was getting baptized on March
3rd. They invited her to Seminary and Mutual.

Yesterday we got to attend a baptism of on of Elder Mechams old
investigators. She is such an AWESOME woman. She started meeting with
missionaries almost a year ago back east and then moved out here last
June which is when Elder Mecham stared to teach her. She had to
recieve permission from Salt Lake in order to be baptised and it took
seven months.