2-13-12

Hey, So this week was a pretty good week. Last Monday we went to Red Lobster for lunch since I had a $50 gift card from Christmas and now I have a Red Lobster close by! On Wednesday, we got a referral from a member. We went and taught this girl named Zula and her cousin. They are both from mongolia so it's interesting. They have no idea about God or the Bible so we will see how this goes the next few weeks. On Saturday we had an all mission conference with Elder Jay Jensen of the Seventy. He is an amazing man. he talked a lot about missionary work, how to study scriptures, and the power of the word. It was a great meeting. He said something that really stood out to me. He said, many people say we are not Christian and he said it's true. By definition we are not according to the different creeds. He said that's good, I dont' want to be one of those Christians because they believe Christ is still on the cross and God, Christ and the Holy Ghost are one. He said we need to stand proud and be the Christians that believe that God and Christ have bodies and that they live today. After, we went to Cluck-U-Chicken, and I did the hot wing challenge. I only got through four wings out of 10 in the 5 minutes. It wasn't how hot it was that got me. It was trying to eat a wing every 30 seconds. That's hard to chew and swallow that fast. Well, it was fun trying anyway. We also found out that our mission president has kidney cancer and is going back to Utah for surgery. So we don't really have a mission president right now. A senior couple has been put in charge but it's kind of weird. His family has been going through a lot recently. On a good note, there is a member here who does natural type healing. We had dinner with them yesterday and I just stated talking to him and now I am going to start seeing him once a week for free and getting things taken care of. yesterday, he did some things and I already feel a bit better. So we will see how things to. Take care! Elder Sanders