Mom, Dad, and Family-
Hope you did get my email last week, it sounds like you did. BTW my p-day this week is Tuesday since we're going to the car show today!!! Apparently its a pretty big deal and all the missionaries try and go to it, so they moved our preparation day to Tuesday so not all the missionaries would be there at once.
This past week was cold. Very cold. We had three or four 'wind chill advisory' days, which basically means we can't be outside for more than 20 minutes. It was intense. School got cancelled Friday because the wind chill made it 30 degrees below zero. So yeah, it was cold, but luckily it warmed up again yesterday to the twenties. Though we had a rather annoying Sunday morning that involved getting stuck in the snow and having just nothing work out all morning. Sunday mornings are not the funnest. Church at 2 o'clock is no good.
Due to the weather, this week was slow. It was hard to tract and stuff, so we did a lot of driving around and trying different people. We did have some success though. Steve Mordi, our Nigerian guy, wants to be baptized!! He's already gained some sort of testimony and I don't even know how, seeing as he hasn't read the Book of Mormon. He's only been to church once, he doesn't like to drive in the snow so that's all that's really holding him back right now. He speaks so different with his african accent and strange grammatics and structure, its quite interesting but fun to teach him.
So Tony, our 14-year-old investigator, is doing well but his family is just crazy. His 9-year-old sister, who's autistic, walked up to her mom near the end of sacrament and yelled "I wanna go home!!!" oh man it was funny. Sadly her mom doesn't deal too well with it and is always kinda angry and is quite eccentric. Man its always interesting going over to their place.
Last night was very cool in that we helped take some furniture from a member over the Carters (McKayla is the 9-year-old we're teaching, her mom is a less-active but hopefully now active member) who have basically no furniture- we usually sit on a mattress on the floor when we teach them. So it was awesome to bring two chairs and a love-seat thing over there and just see all the little kids excitement and see Sister Carter's gratitude. That's what its all about.
Besides that we've been seeing members and trying to get to know people- this ward is huge compared to Dearborn and its a struggle trying to get to know and gain the trust of so many people, some of whom just aren't all that friendly at first. But we're doing what we can.
Umm yeah I think that's it nothing else too much going on though the car shows going to be pretty fun I think.
love,
Elder Connor Lambert
ps I don't need much right now just my camera card
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