If they don't read there's no conversion.

Hey everyone, I had a little accident this week. Don't worry, I don't think that anything is broken! This picture is from Thursday.


Long story short I stepped into a hole. We were in a place called Denery on our way home from district meeting in Castries on Wednesday. I haven't had an x-ray since I can walk on it without it hurting. It only hurts when I turn (rotate) it. It's not as swollen now as it was in the picture. It just feels tight. It actually feels a little bit like when I tore the ligaments in my left foot but it doesn't hurt nearly as bad as that did.

As far as our investigators go everyone is pretty much stuck at the same place as last week. We did have 7 investigators and 3 less-active members come to church this week. That's the best of any other missionaries in the mission. Actually we have had more people at church than anyone else 4 out of the last 5 weeks. I just wish they were getting closer to baptism!

Baby still hasn't been to church for a while. We are going to give her a "drop lesson" and tell her that we'll come back when she starts coming to church. Hopefully that will help motivate her. At least we can use our time to find someone else to teach.

We have a couple of people that have potential but they just need to start keeping the commitments. Then we'll make progress. Reading the Book of Mormon everyday is a huge one. If they don't read, then there's no conversion.

The scripture of the week is Mormon 9:11-14.

We fasted with her on Saturday.

Well, not much has changed around here. Elders Lundberg and Harris are gone. The picture is from the Faux's blog of Jonathan helping Elder Lundberg take his luggage out as he leaves for the airport.


The new Elders have arrived in our apartment. They, Elder Brenkman and Elder Bowles, are both from Utah and are quite fun to be around. Unlike the other Elders that have been here for the last few months they know more about sports than just college football or basketball. I can mention just about anything and anyone in sports I want and they usually know what I'm talking about. I am super happy about that!

Elder Barker and I have an investigator named Zala that we have been working with. She hasn't been baptized yet because she has a boyfriend that she lives with and she hasn't been able to find a place to move out to. We fasted with her on Saturday and then we learned at church on Sunday that she found a place late Saturday night that is really cheap. So cheap in fact that in US money it comes out to about $30 a month! The place needs a little bit of work but we should be able to get her moved in within the next couple of weeks and then she'll be able to get baptized!

I was pretty worried the other day that I was going to have to be a district leader again this transfer because Elder Brenkman is our zone leader, but President Gamiette is letting me die in peace. The only DL on the island is in Castries so that means we have to travel up there every week for district meetings. All that extra time in the car will help me fulfill my goal of reading the Book of Mormon 8 times as a missionary. Right now I am in Ether on my 7th time through. This past week I spent a lot of time reading and I zoomed through 203 pages in just 7 days! Hopefully I'll be able to keep that pace up for another week and then I'll be able to take it relatively easy from here on out!

I got my last haircut as a missionary this morning. That's kind of weird to think about!

The scripture of the week is D&C 18:10-16.