Letter from Mark 06 Nov 2006

Dear Family,

This week has been good. both elder Christensen and i are together untill December 14th (I think) Haloween was great, we went into madison and had a huge district meeting, some carved pumpkins, we played disk golf, and a little ultimate frisbe, and several other indoor games. it was tons of fun. the pumpkin pie we made was great. it was a bit differnet than normal pumpkin pie but we enjoyed it.

We Recently met a guy tracting named Bob Aylesworth. he is 75, he loves to talk, he is a methodest. the first visit we offered to come back and rake his leafs, and he acctually accepted the offer, most people will not let us help. so when we went bakc he tried to pay uas and was shocked when we said no, and wasreally wanting to compensate us so we told him he could feed us lunch in return of raking his leafs. we went back friday to finish raking and we now have a deal set up where he will come up with "chores" for us and will feed us diner in return. he is a pharmacologist (tests drugs to see how they work) and while we were there he told me he asked if i was good at math and chemistery, he said he thought thatfrom talking with me. he then told me i should go into the medical field. he said he had worked with a lot of medical students and he thought that i would be realy good at it. he also told me that after talking to his son, a pharmacist, that after 7 years of school pharmacist's can make 80 to 120 thousand per year after they graduate. I am starting to think that doesn't sound too bad, not just for the money either. he is a funny guy. he picked out a lot of my different qualities without me telling him. he did the same with elder Christensen, but not as much.

We has 6 non-members come to church yesterday! it was great. there is a university of madison extention here in platteville, and 4 students from their taking a religion class had to attend a servce of a church they wanted to study. our gospel essentialls class took up both sunday school and priesthood. It was taught by a new teacher that just moved from idaho, and is also a former bishop. he did an awesome job. there was also a member who brought a co-worker and his wife to church. the 4 college students enjoied it, but probably won't be coming back. i'm not sure what the members friend thought, but he said he had viseted most other churches so he felt he should come and visit this one.

The time is really flying, today is my 16 month mark. i am now the age that Elder Hodgson was when he started to train me. elder Sieler was also 16 months when i got with him. as i look back it is amazing to see how far i have come and how much i have learned. Missions are great.

thank you for all of your prayers and support, I love you all.

Elder Lundberg