David's letter March 8, 2010

Dear Family,
This week was way good it was kind of weird but in a good way. Thats good to hear that everything is going well and that things are warming up. We had Zone conference this week and a guy from the missionary department of the church came and gave some training which was pretty cool i learned alot. One of the girls that we are teaching in Talkeetna is on date to be baptized her name is Mckenzie her older sister Hayley says she wants to be baptized but that she wants to wait so she will be baptized later on but Mckenzie is on date for the 27 of this month which will be fun. We also were able to have a lesson with the Barrens this week it was way cool the only problem was that it was on the same day we taught the girls in Talkeetna so we put 180 milles on the car that day because they live about 50 miles apart but the lessons were way awesome. Brother Barren and his Wife are really fun to teach you can almost see the light come on in the lesson we gave them a soft baptismal committment which is when you find out these things are true will you be baptized. And Jeff bore his testimony that he is feeling that it is true but that he won't leave his wife behind, and the only hangup for sister Barren is that her mom doesn't like the church that much, but they said that they would talk to her, and they also said that they were praying alot to soften her heart. They are an awesome family and the boys are starting to come out to play ball with us to which is way fun. We taught them the plan of salvation and the lord truely prepared them for this lesson and the members the Taylor family helped out alot by bearing testimony and sister Taylor is a convert as well and bore her testimony of the plan of salvation the spirit was way strong. Brother Barren came to Brother Taylor before we started teaching and said that he was missing something in his life and told brother Taylor that he thinks he had the answers. And at the lesson it was cool he said that the emptiness was being filled he is a way spirtual guy and has a true desire. I have learned a ton from these families it just cool to see how the spirit leads and prepares people and how much our example means. The whole week has been full of great spiritual experience we got some random calls to help people which was super cool because it was on the days where all of the plans were falling through so you ask where do we go now and then you get the call. I've learned alot this week and throughout my time here to better trust in the spirit. Well i hope you have a wonderful week Love Elder Rushton