July 7, 2009

Once again, this week was alot of talk about the concerns he has for Rick. We can tell from his letters that this is really starting to bother him. We've encouraged him to get in contact with his mission president. But, here is news from the mission field...

Hey family,
I had yeat another interesting week. . .
First of all, you will be getting a surprise in the mail this week. A victims rights packet. Yeah, don't worry, we're fine. Our car got broken into this week. Some one jimmied the door and stole elder Turner's camera and my MP3 FM adapter. Not a big deal for me, but elder Turner lost his camera, so that stinks. I don't leave my camera in the car-- in fact it's always in my pocket. But that was a hard lesson for him to learn. So we filed a police report, called the mission office, talked to the appartment office (it happened at our appartment at night while we were sleeping) and got all that taken care of. Legally they have to send the packet to our home, so you'll be getting it soon. Again, nothing to worry about.
We set a baptismal date with a guy named Brian. He's really great. He doesn't have a car, so he asked if we could get him a ride to church. We called and called and called and everyone was out of town. We finally had to call him back and say we couldn't get him a ride. He told us he'd be there anyway. And sure enough, when we came to church he was already sitting there, ready to go. He's really awesome. When we told him about baptism, getting ready to set a date, he cut us off saying "I want to get baptized!" So we were like, "great!"
James is having some trouble with church, though. He has a REALLY severe fear of people. He tried to come to gospel principles, but only made it through about half the class before his fear finally got to him. Poor guy. He's really awesome, but he has some hard challanges in his life-- most of them aren't his fault. Like his fear of people is caused from the fact that he was shot in the face a few years back. It also caused him to go almost completely blind. And so he's on medication for anxiety, and that makes it really hard for him to quit smoking cause he can't sleep, etc. Luckily, the atonement can cover such problems. We just have to keep building his faith, and we know we'll see miracles happen.
We also found some great new people to teach, but not much is going on there, yet. I'll have to update you on them later. We're short on time today. Kind of a long story, but a new guy in the office is making life . . . interesting for us.
My 4th was just a normal day. I saw no fireworks. Nothing special :-)
We set a baptismal date, though. So that was good. :-)
But anywho.
Love you all, and I hope everything goes good for you all this next week.
Dad, get better!
Keep me posted.

I don't say it enough, so:
Love you Dad.
Love you Mom.
Love you Kassie.
Love you Kellie.
Love you Kaydee.

--Jason
Oh, and Alex. . . . You're a good guy. . . . ;-)