Dear Family
Happy 2010! I can’t believe it is 2010! Well this week went well! I had a good week. On Tuesday we had exchanges, Elder West went to a different area and I stayed and was companions for a day with a new missionary, his name is Elder Mose, and he is from Samoa. We had a good day together and had a lot of appointments! This week we were able to teach almost all of our investigators. I just counted and we were able to teach 6 of our investigators this week. One couple we taught went well, but then again it didn’t. She is Catholic and has been since she was little and she said she would never change. She really likes us and appreciates what we do, but just doesn’t want to change, so because we are here to find those that are ready we won’t be stopping by as much anymore. Other than that our lessons went well. We got a referral from Mormon.org. On Mormon .org there are these chat rooms where you can talk to missionaries and a kid named Ben Johnson was talking to a missionary and the missionary turned him over to us and so we stopped by and introduced ourselves the first time and the second time we taught the first lesson, it went really well, he is a cool kid!
Also this week I got sick, which was lame. It first started when I kind of burned my throat when drinking some hot chocolate, then one day it started to hurt so I took some medicine and felt better. Then the next day I woke up and felt terrible, my whole body ached. It was on Saturday, and we had appointments at 1:00, 3:00, 4:30, dinner at 5:30, and then another appointment at 7:00, all the appointments except for dinner were with investigators so it was going to be a great day! So in the morning I slept in till about 10:00 then took a nice shower and just took it easy till around lunch time. That really helped and after that we were able to go out and teach at all those appointments except the one at 7 because it cancelled. By the time dinner was over I was exhausted so we just stayed at home after dinner and helped fix the Lewis’ foot rest thing that we broke… So on Friday we were at home for dinner and Addison was trying to jump over their couch and so Elder West and I joined in and were jumping over it. I got the idea to have Elder West dive over it onto their perfect sized foot rest which looks like a landing pad. It is about 4feet by 4feet and it is about 2 feet tall, so we positioned it perfectly. The first jump was spectacular Elder West dove over the couch with his arms in perfect flying position appearing to be superman himself. The next time didn’t go to well, instead of landing on his stomach he tucked and rolled. When he landed on the makeshift landing pad there was a huge crack! We soon realized we had snapped a piece of wood in half. We felt really bad and said we would fix it, and we did but later, we figured out that we were the 3rd group of people to break it so it was already weakened. Haha. Anyways, we fixed it and it is just like new! Haha
For New Years Eve this week we were in by six. It was fun. We played a sweet board game called Ticket to Ride, and then Clue it was pretty awesome. Bro Lewis is a career owner for his line of work, and Ticket to Ride is about strategy so he dominated us. We also played a domino game called Chicken Feet which was pretty fun, but again Bro Lewis dominated us. We were told that we could stay up to 12 if we wanted to but we would still have to wake up at 6:30 the next morning so it was up to us to decide. So we did, we stayed up till 12 and that was pretty sweet!
Also this week it has been kind of icy… so Elder West and I have had our fair share of falls. This one time we were riding and I wasn’t riding on anything really slick but it was still ice none the less, so I go to turn to get the desired angle of attack to hop up a curb and the next thing I know I am on the ground and my hip hurt… I was pretty upset and wanted to get up and throw my bike but I was kind of disabled from the fall for a little bit… When Elder West caught up he yelled “SAFE!” It made me laugh and I wasn’t mad anymore! Haha Well that is about it for the week! I love you guys so much! Thanks for everything! I hope you have a good week! I will talk to you later! LOVE YOU GUYS!
Love
Elder Lassen
Miracle of the Week: On Sunday the person who was in charge of teaching the Gospel Principles class got sick and so they were just going to have everyone go to the other Sunday school class that goes deeper into the scriptures, well we had two investigators show up…. So Elder West and I winged a lesson and it actually turned out really well, we were led by the Spirit on what to say and it went really well! I love the Spirit!