Family!

The Baptism went well, but There is a long story that goes with it. On Thursday I was with the mission leader and while we were there his wife got a call saying that the baptismal font smelled horrible. like super sulfuric. not good. so on saturday we got there and it smelled just fine, but, when we turned the water on it smelled like the hot pots an an awefully hot day. oh it was so nasty! so we let it run for a bit hoping that the smell would just go away! man nope. it didn't happen. so we are trying to figure out what we could do and yes. yes we thought about moving it to the akron building which is thirty minutes away and it usually takes about 3 hours to fill the font! man woah. and then i had the idea to go turn on the font again to see what it smelled like. well, it didn't smell as bad and so we plugged it up and let it fill. we had just decided to do it smelly, and the people there could just get use to it.

Well, we opened all of the windows and sprayed some good smelling stuff and about thirty minutes before the baptism it smelled fine! what we did find out though is that the water that was coming in was from a well. the regular water was cycling through a water softener so we got the smelly well water. but eventually it switched back over and then the rest is history. the service was absolutely fantastic. quite an adventure I must say.

I have heard from the members that this movie actually follows the books more than the others so it's pretty good. but, on the other hand it throws things in there that haven't been in the other movies. but I have still been told it is by far the best movie yet.

I don't believe that for one second about matthew. since when is he brave? No. I think someone has switched him out with someone else. I don't think that's true. what in the world. woah. incredible haha. way to be a man. haha

I will find out who the new companion will be come tomorrow. hopefully He is a hard working guy and can teach me a lot because I still have a ton to learn. man, it will be different too because Elder wilkinson did a lot of the teaching when we were together! so i will get more of the opportunity to teach and learn more. so I'm excited and nervous at the same time. because i really do not want to have an apostate companion. I will go crazy and you will hear all about it. haha. oh well though. it's all good.

anywho, Thanksgiving will be good. so eh, haha I will just have to deal, the members will really take care of me and my comp. so whatev's man! ha well. nothing else realy too new. except we found a family of six that we taught this past monday and they were awesome. they are super curious. and the thing is they ask questions that go straight in line with the things our church has and teaches! one of the very first questions they asked is; if God is the same yesterday today and forever, and he had prophets in the bible. why aren't there prophets today? then they asked, where do we go when we die? how do we repent? and things along those lines and elder wilkinson and i were just like yes! oh my gosh this is awesome! holy cow! so really I hope that we can teach them and they can come unto christ. the wife just needs to understand the one true church thing. she doesn't really believe in that but, that will come along with time. these guys could definitly be kingdom builders. oh I'm so excited for the potential that is here.

I'm not too sure what else to add to be honest. I'm thinkin and I'm thinking. if I do come up with more I will add to it. until then.

Love ya!
Michael

Father,

I can't believe they finally got you to travel haha. that's funny. but yes the baptism went well, the story is in moms e-mail. Today isn't too cold, last night when we went home it was about 65, so it was a lot warmer than it has been, we drove with the windows down haha.

The one thing you can remember to get me is a GPS on black friday, my tights in ammons room and whatever else you feel like sending me, I promise I wont be opposed whatsoever. ;p but yeah I'm not in too much need of anything right now. to be honest.

Not really too much going on just yet, there is a lot of untapped potential that we need to find. (being me and whoever the new companion will be) so we just really need to find people as of right now. I'm doing great as well, things are good here and I'm having a really good time.

Love michael!
oh yeah! I just remembered. If you guys could get the last two General Conference talks on CD and send them out to me and maybe whatever else I can listen to in the car, which is anything that is a hymn or that the Tabernacle Choir sings that would be super cool. as of right now my collection of CD's to listen to in the car is lacking! but thats all else I can remember that I want.