The Peanut Gallery

Funny: Our ward is possibly the funniest ward I have ever seen. Yesterday the instructor in Sunday School gave a really motivating lesson on not giving up. She concluded with a really powerful testimony and right before we prayed, an old lady form the back row exclaimed "We're not going to give up. We just want to take a nap". Haha, the old people here have no filters and there are a lot of them.

Spiritual: We met a man from Washington who comes down to Church Wells every year at General Conference time. He is not member but has watched the last couple of conferences here. He is really interested but because he lives in such a lonely part of Church Wells he never gets missionaries. Until us! He went back up to Washington on Monday but he said he will be back in a couple of months. It was so incredible because out here we rarely get to meet people who have never met with missionaries.

Where I am at: The work here is a lot of less-actives. We learned that in the Southwest area there are 900,000 members and 600,000 of them are less-active. In our mission alone, there are about 160,000 less-active members. For us it's the Navajo people, most of them are members but have never gone to church and just did the placement program. They are basically non-members, except we don't get to see a baptism at the end of our work. The work is good though and we are learning and growing a lot. We also are super pumped for Christmas!