P-Day 47

Hi Mommy,

Yes I went and got a haircut and it was just to see what I wanted.  (Last week he asked me to send him a picture of himself at our Christmas call.) Also I don't know about the boots. I don't know where I will end up is the thing... I could be back in Hmong, Juneau or like Fairbanks. It depends on where I am if I would need the boots... 

But yup this week was awesome too. Bishop Gray set up an appointment with Stephanie at his house. We got to know her and we taught the Restoration. Before we taught, she talked about her Book of Mormon reading. She commented that she didn't understand everything, but she is learning a lot from it. Because we don't understand everything at once we have to reread them. She also said that when we reread it, different things will be going on in our lives, so the Book of Mormon will touch us in different ways. 

We began teaching the restoration and we got to Joseph Smith and the first vision. She stopped us and began telling us a story of her sisters conversion. Me and Elder White (exchanges!) were very confused because we had just gotten to the good part... But she continued and shared how her sister said that when she went to the LDS church she felt complete inside. Stephanie then said she felt that same way when she went to church that first Sunday! We have her committed to baptism! We are going to pick out a date this week. 

We went tracting yesterday and we were walking up this driveway. It was a house way back into the woods. Two Russian dudes came out about 25ish. We started talking to them. They very standbackish and interrogating. Me and Elder Gentry just kept talking and talking until they felt comfortable. Then we started teaching. They had a ton of questions. One went inside and one stayed out after a bit. His name was Dimitri. We taught him the Restoration in between his questions and afterwards talking about the BoM. He basically ripped it out of Elder Gentry's hands. He said he felt every other church wasn't right. He never investigated Mormons so he wanted to learn it all. We also got a return appointment. There is a lot of potential here as well. 

We taught Hope the restoration again as part of her new member lessons. We tried teaching it a different way. We used the First Vision to describe the character of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and then used the Bible to investigate the church that Christ established and compared it to churches today. Elder Gentry killed it. 

Alaska has had beautiful 70 degree weather. We have gone OYMing at the park all week. The sun doesn't set until about midnight so everybody goes around 7:30-9. We talked to a lot of people, taught lessons while playing basketball and got a lot of people turning around when we walked in their direction. We also got asked to join a picnic. It was a lot of fun and very interesting! We also had to stop by the Susitna River while we drove past it! Pictures below. 

Love you!

Elder Frey