Hey Mom,

Bryan is a no go. Haven't seen him in two weeks and we passed him driving the other day and saw him smoking. So, I'm not sure what to do with him. We may just drop him. It's nearly impossible to get a hold of him too because he is basically homeless and doesn't answer his phone. We get out of our car wherever. As long as you don't do anything stupid you will be fine. That Grafiti was actually in a safer part of Toledo. Transfers aren't for another two weeks though.

I can't believe you got Four inches of snow already. That's pretty crazy if you ask me. I can't ever remembering it snowing so early in October. what a bummer. Why hasn't Spanish Fork bought the land yet? That's pretty lame, Dad should just tell them if they dont' buy it he is going to start looking for other people who will... Does it work that way? Probably not, but it's a though haha.

This week went by really fast, I was on a two day exchange up with one of the Zone-leaders and Elder Porter stayed in Perrsyburg with one of the assistants one day and then the next with another zone-leader from another zone. So that was nice, a bit of a break and something to speed up the week. Plus, I didn't have to drive, which was nice and they ended up tracting like six hours those two days that I was gone. That was pretty nice. Especially with how much things have slowed down here. There is a member though who invited her friend to take the discussions so we are excited about that, It's just going to be really hard to meet with her because she has 8 kids. 7 of which are between 12 and 8, and she homeschools them all... I don't know why she would do that, but thats a fairly common thing out here I guess.

We are focusing a little bit on the Less-actives now as well because the original ones we would go see Have become active again or they haven't progressed at all so we have stopped seeing them. There is this one guy who hasn't been to church in years and he stopped going because he got offended by the bishopric when he went through a divorce. we have seen him twice now and the last time we went and saw him we read a few scriptures and he was just like yeah... I should probably just leave what is in the past there and go back to church and so I can make it to the temple. We have been doing that with all of the new less-actives we are teaching is invting them to the temple and to prepare by coming to church. It's been a good success so far. The Temple is very powerful, especially with the spirit of Elijah.

Anyways... It was a quiet week. so nothing really has changed at all. Unfortunatly. Oh well.

Love ya!



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Elder Michael Stone.