We've had several people ask how Darren is doing. The short answer is that he is doing great. Posted below are some excerpts from his two most recent letters:
December 12, 2011
Holy cow! I read Grandma's email before I read this and she mentioned how Tyson was in a sling and experiencing some pain.... At first I thought, "What the crap happened?"... That's a bummer he broke it at Classic Skating. See why I tell Tyson to stop growing? He is much to tall for his poor 13 year old equilibrium. I hope he now understands the wisdom in why I tell him to stop growing... haha. Anyways, that sucks for him! I imagine that will deter his video game playing for the next little while. I bet that's why he is crying the most I imagine: that's why I would be. 4 to 8 weeks without video games... I hope he can survive!
So nothing that exciting happened to me this week... We did get two new investigators. They are the children of the lady we got last week. They came to church yesterday and we had the chance to escort them from sacrament to primary. They are good kids. They sat next to us in Sacrament, and I couldn't believe at how well behaved they were: attentive, reverent, and listening to the speakers! Both the 10 year old boy and the 9 year old girl seemed to love their primary classes. After we dropped them off, we talked with their mother. She expressed a strong desire to be baptized.. Woah. This week we are teaching her and will be extending a baptismal date. Can you believe it? We show up to church two weeks in a row and expressed her desire to be baptized. I imagine her two younger kids will follow suit. She does have a husband and 16 year old kid, but I haven't met them yet. Hopefully they want to hope along for the ride!
Our investigating pool is getting pretty large. We did weekly planning on Friday and had to plan for 13 investigators!!! Of course, 4 or so of them are dead beats who like us coming over. When we first started the transfer, all we really had were those four investigators. Now we have 6 or 7 solid investigators who have potential. It's nice to have solid people to teach!
Elder Peterson and I are getting along great. We both have our routines down and things are meshing quite nicely. Elder Peterson knows a lot for only being out 4 months. He must of prepared quite well before he left his mission, something I wished I would of done a bit better! Oh well, you live and learn.
So we eat at the Esterlines yet again this Thursday. I am sure excited for that. They rock!
So I am putting on my winter cushion quite nicely. I have been trying my hardest to avoid it, but it seems unavoidable. I can't really control it to much, so I have given up trying to put on that sixpack, haha.
I sure do love you Mom! Thank you for everything you do for me. I love you more than anything!
December 5, 2011
So our teaching pool had a HUGE spike this week. I will copy and paste what I sent to the mission President:
I guess I will begin with the recap of miracles we experienced this week. We had a guy last week flag us down while we were walking to an appointment. We talked with him, scheduled a time to start teaching him, and went our merry way. Well we taught him two days later and he seemed to enjoy it. He said he would read the introduction to the Book of Mormon and come to church the upcoming Sunday. Well the miracle is that he did. He also expressed that he truly loved it and wanted to come back. He was talking with a member during Priesthood and mentioned that he had met with 8 or so pairs of Elders before and that these two (Elder Peterson and I) were the first that he felt answered his questions and concerns. What a miracle. And if having a investigator show up as he said, we had a member pull us out of gospel principles and told us that she brought a friend who has 3 kids, ages 16 through 10, who was interested in joining. We talked with her friend and scheduled an appointment this Wednesday at the members home for a lesson. Wow. We were completely speechless. The Lord truly is involved in the work, I have a sure testimony of that! I wanted to call you as soon as church was over due to my overwhelming feelings of joy, but I talked myself out of it. So that was what Elder Peterson and I call our "Miracle Sunday."
We have a busy time ahead of us for teaching, which couldn't be better timing with the winter months ahead of us. Our investigators we do have now seem to be maintaining the same progress. We did however get the chance to meet up with a fellow who we haven't seen in awhile. We set up a firm time of this Tuesday to meet with him.
Pretty friggin awesome.... I can't believe how this week went. It was truly a miracle to see all this happen.
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