Letter from Mark 07 August 2006

Dear Family,

This week has been good. Transfers are this week, so please send everything through the office this week. So far living with members has been good, still getting use to it. they finished their basement room so we are down there now, and they are working on a bathroom downstairs, but that will take a while.I will probably try to send a package home on wednesday, so i don't have to pack so much. the members here have a CD burner, so i talked to them and i am going to make coppies of all of my cd's, then send the originals home. i bought a small case that has 10 CD's to burn and it is compact.

We had a great expierience on saturday. saturday afternoon we went to a members house to drop off his dolly that he left after helping us move. when we got there they were cleaning up from a garage sale(they are trying to sell their house.) we talked a little bit, and told them we were planning on going to a restaurant in that town that has the slogan "world's best burgers" they said it was good, their 14 year old son asked if he could come, we told him he would have to work with us until then, and he needed a shirt and tie. he was excited and went and changed. in talking to his parents, they said don't bring him back early if he starts complaining. we tracted to 2 hours with him and tried to see a couple people before that but no one was home. he was complaining a little durring tracting, but it was good for him, he was excited at times. then we went to a referal who had not been contacted yet, and they were home. the guy's name was Willie Tipton. him and his girlfriend both called for commercials and talked to missionaries at the mtc. His girlfriend wasn't home, but he was very excited, and had a lot of questions. we had a great visit. after walking out carson, the kid we took, thought that was great and couln't stop talking about it. we told him now he had a good journal entery. he said he doesn't like writing in journals. we told him at dinner he should get out his journal and write in it. on sunday he got up and bore his testimony, then we ate at his house and his parents told us he talked about it all night, and went to bed early so he could get up early and write in his journal, then he wrote 2 full pages without thinking about it. his parents wer very thankful that we took him, and that now he has even mord modivation to go on a mission. It was great to see that happen, and to help get the youth excited about missionary work.

This week we had our district leader challenge us to get double honor roll, 15 lessons and 15 hours tracting. it is sort of funny because the lessons kept on coming, and the tracting led to more lessons, so we ended up with 22 lessons and 14 hours tracting. Elder griffiths and i that it was funny that we were trying so hard to get 15 tracting hours (which isn't too hard) but we couldn't get it. we did get 4 new investigators though. an new investigator is someone that we teach to that hasn't been meeting with us, and then we set up an appointment to come back. one of them is named Cheryl Backster. she had a baptismal date set in the chicago south mission, then moved in with her mom before that happend and couldnt get baptised (her mom is against her joining the church.) we had her moms phone, and a future appartment address. we then found out that she didn't move into the appartment, and her mom wouln't let us talk to her. sunday she called the church, and gave the bishop her address. we stopped by briefly, and met her and set a time to come back. she was very excited to see us and had been sruggling, but said she would never turn her back on the church after the help that they have given her. it was neat.

I have been having a great time, learning a lot and working hard. thankyou for all of your support. I love you all.

Elder Lundberg