Missing Investigator in WA

Hello Family,

I am emailing today because we had our temple trip.  Like McKay, we email in the church with the family history computers.  Auburn does have a library, but it is closed down right now due to renovations.

Congrats on every one running!  It sounds like it was a good weekend for Jacob and Gabe.  I like Gabe's thought on making $50 for 18 minutes.  Definitely good pay.  Daniel, it sounds like you did good for it being 90 degrees.  I don't think I have seen it be 90 degrees in Seattle.  Haha, so last pday Elder WiIson (English elder in the same ward as me) decided to see if we could still run under a 6 minute mile.  He has only been out 4 months and rides a bike everyday so is in a lot better shape then me.  He ran the 800 in high school.  We went to the middle school track that is about a block away from our apartment to run.  This track is a dirt track and not very well kept.  It had been raining, so there were huge puddles in the first three lanes on about half of the race.  Lucky for us though, we were able to still pull out a 5:40 minute mile.  I think that was my 7th grade time....  Haha, it was fun to get out and run again though.
 

This past week we had a lot of lessons but not too many people really wanting to progress.  Also we have a bad case of disappearing investigators.  It seems like we can find people and teach them, and then they are never at their house again.  One interesting story is we tracted into a young man of about 24 years or so.  We taught a quick lesson and then scheduled an appointment for 2 days out.  We came back and knocked on the door for the appointment and a women answered.  We asked for the guy we had talked to.  She got a really confused look on her face, and said that nobody by that name lived there.  We asked if she had any relatives or friends that had been in the house that day.  She said no.  We were still a little confused on that one.  We taught someone in that house when he was the only one there, and now he just doesn't exist.

We have one lady who has really progressed very fast over this last week. We found her about a month and a half ago, but she never really was progressing. We decided to swing by this last week and visit her.  We had a super good lesson with her and she committed to pray to know if what we were teaching was true.  We came back 2 days later and she had prayed!!!  Totally a change for her.  She said she had shared the gospel with two of her friends and her mom.  Mostly just talked with them about the Book of Mormon.  Really cool though  also came to a baptismal service for someone else this Sunday and really enjoyed it.

We also tracted into a lot of people that have good potential this week.  None that we have been to a second lesson with yet though, so it is hard to say with them.

Well, not much else to report this week.

Love yall,

Elder B