Letter from Mark 06 March 2006

dear family,

This past week has been good. It snowed about 8 inches yesterday. most of the snow here is a very dry snow, this was a wet snow, so it was heavy. and they don't plow much until it stops snowing, they mostly just salt, that made it hard to drive in. we had a member that lives on top of a hill in farm country invite us to eat right after church, they also invited the 1st counselor in the branch presidency and his wife. we were driving on snow that had not been driven on, and pushing some snow with our bumper, when we got to the hill we got about half way up, and couldn't make it, so we turned around. the 1st counselor saw us and was following for a litle while in a suburban, they said they would tell the family we couldn't make it. we called when we got back, it took us a little over 2 hours to do a trip that would normaly take half hour. It has warmed back up a little but today, and will probably gradually get better.

My companion and I are getting along alright, we aren't best friends, but we get along. he works hard a times, but isn't always obedient. he has had a hard time adjusting to the area because he doesn't like how the missionaries that opened the area in the summer worked it. he has a few idea's of how to get the area going well, onone of them is he wants missionaries to rotate through quicker to get new faces that haven't worked the town too much. tomorrow we have interviews with the mission president and said he is going to ask to have me transfered at the end of this transfer, and him transferred the one after that.

Our lesson with Judy and laura this week went well. It is nice to have Elder Stahl there, I was doing almost all of the talking, and explaining the chapters of the book of mormon that we read. elder stahl has been doing his share of talking, and has been giving his insight on the chapter as well, it was a great lesson. they have been meeting with missionaries for a while, so we are going to start to try to get the point accross that it isn't just a weekly scripture study that we come over for. both of them love the book of mormon, laura especally feels its power, so we are going to try to get them to start doing more and comming to church. the branch president's wife told us that she is going to invite both of them to enrichment night this month. laura has been a bit hesitant comming to church because se doesn't like large crouds, or that was the excuse she gave us, so we are hoping she will go to enrichment.

We met a guy just after elder stahl got here that we have taught a few times, he is a bit slower, so we will have to go over every thing a few times before he fully grasps everything that we are telling him, but he is very interested in religion, adn so far has liked to talk with us. he told us he is a catholic, but after talking with him, he has some conflicting views with the catholic church.

Thank you for all of the support that you give me. I love you all.

Elder Lundberg