Letter #10

 Hey guys, how is everybody doing? 


This week has been great for the most part. The time change made it not so great though; from 5 to 7 we go out and knock doors because that's when everyone is usually home and before the time change it got dark at about 7. It gets dark between 5:30 and 6 now after the time change so we have to go out tracting (knocking doors) for an hour in the dark. A lot of people like us even less now that we are knocking their doors during the "night time". We even had a lady call the police on us. We had knocked her door around 6:10 and she asked through the door who it was and we were like "it's the missionaries". She said she wasn't able to open the door so we left to go knock other doors. Later we got a text from the sheriff asking if we had been at this ladies house a little while ago and when we replied yes. He said "OK, just making sure". This lady called saying that she had some suspicious people knocking her door posing as missionaries and she knew that because apparently "missionaries don't go out that late". He was super chill though and told us to keep up the good work!

Other than that the week went good, it's getting kinda chilly, only getting up to the 20s and 30s during the day so not too bad. 

We've also been able to meet consistently with Jack, he is enjoying the lessons and really wants to go to church but his mom hasn't felt well the past 2 Sundays. They are a great family though and its been great to be able to meet with them. 

We finished all the lessons with Nancy, and like I've said in earlier emails, its amazing to see how much happiness the gospel has brought in her life. Shes a completely different person now than when we first met her. We are now just helping her understand her scripture reading and listening to President Nelsons (the prophet) talks from General Conference.  

That's really about it, the work is going kinda slow here in Parowan but I've enjoyed it so far! I hope everybody is having a good time, can't wait to hear from you guys!


1-2: End of the rainbow
3: Snow storm moving in





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