A GREAT week...

Well congratulations on the great talk mom, haha, sounds like it was quite smashing! Yeah I loved Elder Bednar´s talk as well, I´m pretty sure it was my favorite, and it´s PERFECT for kids going on missions or just starting in the MTC, or the field... or coming home... good for everybody.

Wow, Mariah´s birthday party sounds like it´ll be pretty awesome, I´ll have to send off her letter today then, it´ll probably show up late again, but at least it´ll get there.

Speaking of mail, I got the package you sent, so thank you! we took a few boxed of macaroni and cheese to a member´s house for lunch and at them with her, she liked it.

So this last week we had another ´grand council´ with President and all the zone leaders, but this time it was in his apartment. It was the second time I´ve been there after arriving in the mission, and it was nice to just sit on the couches and not be dieing of nervousness. So we all sat around, talked about *where are we?* *where do we want to be?* and *how do we get there?* fun stuff. In short, we all had the same feelings and came to the same conclusion that most of the missionaries on the mission don´t know Preach my Gospel like they should, and NOBODY knows how to use technique. so we´ve been instructed to bash PMG into the heads of all the missionaries, now companion study can ONLY be PMG. Slackers. The lack of technique on the mission blows me away sometimes. Except with Elder Black.. cuz I trained him, and I taught him how it should be done. What we like to call *the right way*. Afterwards we rounded up the troops in our zone and went to the mission office and had interviews. President told me to prepare myself to take care of all the newbies in my zone when Elder Erickson leaves, and then told me that I can´t let my companion be trunky.... hahahaha.

The mission office receives the papers of missionaries bound for our mission long before the missionary himself even knows about it. And it has ALL their information with it. So... naturally, the secretaries know everything about every missionary coming in for the next while or so, especially a certain sister missionary they were particularly excited about, oh sinners. Though it is fun being friends with the secretaries (and assistants... and pres.)

Food news: I ate candied orange peels the other day, they were green :D

We taught a lady a few days ago, I think it was Sunday, and she was pretty excited to learn about the church, and we marked 3 Nephi 11 for her to read and pray. And when we went back and asked how the reading went she started talking about all sort of stuff that have nothing to do with that chapter (Christ´s baptism, brothers who rebelled then got cursed, Zenock, Isaias). So we asked her what part she read... and she showed us. She had started at the very beginning and read to Alma 33... in 4 days!! Oh wow. So we asked her how the prayer went and she said that now she´s sure that Christ´s true church exists on the earth. WOO! So that was mind-blowing, never had that experience before.

We also taught a bunch of boys, and when we asked what they´d do after they knew that the message was true they said: *well... get baptized duh, and share the gospel with the world* oh yeah! Exactly the responses written in the instruction book, haha.

But Sunday didn´t go so well, nobody could go this week, *only next week* but we met an old investigator girl on the bus to church, and she said that after her church ends she´ll go to our sacrament meeting... and she really did. Can´t complain about that, and I think she really liked it.

We taught a lot with the members this week, we had three days when we just spent the whole day walking and teaching with kids from the ward, so that was fun. They liked it too.

*if a tree falls in a forest... and there´s nobody around... and it hits a mime... does anyone care?*

LOVE YOU ALL!!
Elder Webber