HELLO there.

-Once upon a time I had this huge desire to teach someone in a half-way house (you know half-way between prison and the outside world) before my mission.

Which technically I was able to do that in King's Canyon one time but it's harder than you think to teach someone in a half-way house when they change their phone number and the only option you have left is to try knocking on the steel door that makes sure everyone stays in after curfew. Anyway this week Sister T and I started teaching Shannon and Jesse who live in a sober-living house (a house for newly recovered alcoholics, and it's basically the same thing as a half way house....). They are so cool AND THEY KEEP THE COMMITMENTS WE LEAVE WITH THEM.  I am super happy about teaching them and it's more than likely going to lead to a bunch of other new investigators as well because we teach them in 'the lounge' which is were all the men in the sober-living house hang out. The lounge is a car-port turned into a man cave of sorts because no one there actually owns cars. We have taught them twice so far and it's such a fun experience because we sit and teach them and it's only Shannon and Jesse technically in the lesson but there is normally at least 4 other men sitting on the outskirts of the lounge who are totally listening in on the lesson and throw in their own questions and comments on occasion. 

-KENNY (an investigator I love teaching because he is so sincere) came to church for all three hours this week and texted us after and said he LOVED it and would be back next week. Which is no surprise actually because all of church I was just thinking about how perfect everything was for him....talks about baptism being a fruit of true faith, lessons about the benefits of prophets it was all so good. 

-At church Brother Domantay was ordained to the priesthood and Yang was confirmed and then we taught them the Plan of Salvation again after church and it was so good. I was able to use some great revelation I received from a personal study the other day and taught how for them at this point ENDURING TO THE END is the difference between tasting of the fruit and being filled with the fruit everlastingly in the celestial kingdom.