Ty's Mission: HapPpy BIrthDaY Elder Soutas

Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes and packages! It was a really good birthday. The weather was perfect (71 degrees). Couldn't have asked for better weather. At church people sang me happy birthday, and when we got home later the family we live with fed us really good chicken and gave me a birthday cake.

It was a good week. We didn't get in with a whole lot of our investigators, but made some progress with some less actives. We helped a lady named Jennifer come to church this week. She is a single mom who works lots of hours and has to deal with really rambunctious kids so it is hard for her to make it to church. She has really been wanting to go to church so we were glad she was able to make it.

Brother Barfield is still going strong. He fed us dinner AGAIN. Lasagna. He is such a great guy! That's 3 weeks in a row that he's come to church. He is really appreciative of what we've done to help him.

This week was the ward's Fall Festival at the Mooth's farm. There was a corn maze, chili cookoff, and such. One of our investigators, Mike the older, (not to be confused with Mike the younger) brought his 8 year old daughter Aubrey to the party. He helped us mummify our car with toilet paper for the trunk or treat they had and we went through the corn maze with him. Apparently he looks like Bruce Springstein. I should know who that is, but I don't. We also had a good law of chastity lesson with Mike. He says he really wants to get married to a Mormon and doing so would solidify him being baptized Mormon. He kind of wants to set his own date to be baptized. Great guy.

That's pretty much it for this week. It went pretty well. Thanks again for all of the birthday wishes!

Scripture for the week:

I'm redoing the one from last week. Since I didn't do such a great job of ponderizing it.

Mosiah 24: 14

"And I will ease the burdens which are put upon your shoulders,that even you cannot feel them upon your backs, even while you are in bondage; and this will I do that ye may stand as witnesses for me hereafter, and that ye may know of a surety that I, the Lord God, do visit my people in their afflictions."

Thanks,

Elder Soutas