Oct 3--Email From Matt

Hey everyone!

Thomas, that's really good to hear! thankyou, Mom told me what the coach

said to you, that means the next time that your couch says he wants you to

do something, tell him: ''Don't talk to me.'' Haha, did you eat your cell?

did it taste good? I would love to see that story, send it to me next week

hahah, That's really cool about semenary. It is super helpful, I wish I

would've payed a little more attention in there. Tell me more about what

you do!

Miriam, How is life? are you surviving not working? We met this guy who had

such a bad hernia that they had to pull 3 inches of his intestines out of

his stomach and he doesnt go to the bathroom, he just changes that little

bag that is over his intestines. I thought of you. :) haha, Maybe you

should get your hernia fixed? Everything is going well with me. What do you

do all day? Are you glad that highschool is going to be over after this

year? Who is your favoirite teacher? What is preston doing now that he

doesn't goe to school? Well, I hope you answer my questions. Oh, BTW how is

the truck?

Katrina I thought you already told me that, but I guess I could be wrong.

Why do you want to get into Dr. Who? I always thought it was... cool but

not that cool, Not avatar cool. Shakespear comp! are you gonna tell me how

you did next week?!?! I guess that question will be answered next week

haha. Do you like Ceder City? I thought it was cool but it's sort of far

from everywhere. whatever. Haha

Mom, The red dot on my face has been there for like 3 months now, I might

go to the doctor to see what they say but it's probably not going to go

away by it self. We'll see. Can you help dad with his reports or they about

students? Thankyou for telling me about everything and everyone, I reay

enjoy it.

Dad, yeah, I get what you mean, it is a lot harder like this. The choices

we make can really efect people's lifes. Wow, that sounds like a lot of

fun. Are all of your students like that? Here, (We call them TJs Testigos

de Jeova) the TJ's sometimes help us, they yell at the people, and after

that we are nice haha, Don't let work get you too down. I'm sure that you

are helping your student's lives change.

Well, I don't have a ton of time but there is one experience that happend

that was very... touching this week. We went to the chapple sunday, and we

have a rule as a mission, if there aren't any investigators in sacrament

meeting, we take the sacrament and then leave. That happend this last week,

so there wasn't anyone there, so we left and we got on a bus (Most of the

people here don't have cars and there is a bus system that they use

instead) and we went to the house of an investigator. She had been to

church once and was sure that she was going to go this sunday. We knocked

on the door, she answered it. We came in asked her why she didn't goe, she

said that it was because she woke up late, and that she didn't have enough

money to take the bus to the chapple and pay off a small debt that she had

to pay. We talked to her for a bit, asked her if she had faith, and then we

asked her to make that sacrifice. The spirit was so strong there. We made a

promis that we didn't know how, but God would make everything work out

that: Todo iba a salir bien. We knew what we were saying was true. She did

too. She was quiet for a minute, said, ''ok'' went into her room, cried,

changed, came out, washed her face, and we walked to the street where the

buses pass and watched as she payed money that she didn't have to get on

the bus and come to church. I still don't know what happend. Yesterday

seemed like it was 2 years long. it's times like that when you have to be

firm that you are doing God's work.