So I feel like I haven't had any good stories for you lately. Sorry about that. There are a couple of kind of good ones, I guess. One was one of those great "greenie on the phone" moments. Ha! I was driving so I wanted Hermana Henderson to call one of the members to see if he was going to have a female there so that we could have the appointment with our recent convert in his house. Hermana Henderson really did not want to do it. I was in the middle of trying to convince her that it would be fine and Hermana Trepanier said, "I can try." I just grinned and said, "Ok." So she called Oliver. When he answered they did the normal greetings and then Hermana Trepanier dove in with the conversation. I'm pretty sure that what she said would translate into, "You have women? So come Grover?" and some other words and sentences that don't really have a translation. When she finished talking I'm pretty sure we could hear some crickets singing on the other end of the line. Haha! I was laughing so hard. So I took the phone from her and said, "Hello Oliver." He immediately said, "I didn't understand ANYTHING. Just 'women' and 'Grover'." It was great. When I told Hermana Trepanier what he said, she told me, "That's funny. That's all I understand when he speaks to me." It's a good thing she has such a good attitude and that we could all laugh so much about it. The next day she drew a comic strip of the whole thing and gave it to Oliver. I think he enjoyed it:) The other story involves a family from Mexico. The grandmother's name is Hermalinda. She was the first one that we spoke with. We met her while we were knocking doors. She immediately invited us in and then told us that she was Catholic. "Great," I thought, "this is just going to be a waste of time." Usually when people tell us they are Catholic that means, "I'm not interested in listening to what your religion is. I just like the 'word of God' so tell me what you have to say and then get out of my house." But we were already sitting on the couch so we started in with the message anyway. As we got talking to her she started telling us about how confused she feels about religion. Also, that there are a lot of things in her religion that she doesn't agree with. We didn't have much time so we quickly talked about the experience of Joseph Smith that he had when he was feeling those same things and set a return appointment. When we went back about a week later, she had her son and two grandsons sitting at the table with the Bible and a few other books ready. At first, I didn't know that it was her son so I immediately thought, "Oh no. She brought someone from her church to bible bash with us." Good thing that wasn't what really happened. She asked us about the ten commandments and if we could explain them to her. I thought that was going to be pretty easy, but when we read the first commandment out of Exodus and started talking about it, she had a TON of questions. We spent the whole lesson talking about the first commandment and trying to teach them how to pray. She really doesn't want to give up her book of prayers where she can just read them. But she seemed to like how we answered her questions so she asked us when we were going to come back. The next time we went back the whole family was there again and her husband was there as well. I thought for sure that we would at least be able to get through the next four commandments, but we only covered one commandment in the whole time that we were there again. How can these people be so confused about what is written right there in front of you? It really made me grateful for the simplicity of the gospel. When we finished the lesson, they started asking us if we had activities that their grandchildren could go to in order to stay busy for the summer. They also wanted some activities to go to as adults. We told them about church and mutual and invited them to come. She said that they would go as long as no one forces them to get baptized and change religion. I told her that no one was going to force them, but that they were certainly invited to get baptized:) They're going to come this week...we hope. We'll see what happens with it.

I love you all!

Hermana Larsen