That is awesome news about Taggard but i have one question: does the D stand for DeWalt, hahaha.
I thought that the family reunion was last summer?

So a lot has happened this week, a lot of miracles that is. The first one was Awesome. We went for a return appointment with this investigator and we had planned to teach the Plan of Salvation to her, we get there and it is just a perfect day outside, which is a good thing because her husband wasn't home, and we start to talk to her about what she has read from the Book of Mormon and she had a lot of questions about things but she was apologizing a lot because she was only able to read the first chapter of 1 Nephi. So we talk about some things and then she starts talking about stuff and we are just getting really confused because she is talking about things that are not in the first chapter of 1 Nephi so we ask her how much she read and at this point we get the biggest smiles on our faces because we found out that she had read all of 1 Nephi TWICE!!! We were super excited and then it just kept getting better because it also turns out that she has been telling her mom and sister about the Book of Mormon and how great it is and she said that she was gonna offer hers to her sister, its crazy, she is doing missionary work.

Another crazy thing that happened the other day was that we were tracking, (ya hard to believe isn't it missionaries knocking on doors), but anyways there is this guy talking on his cell phone on his front porch and we walk up to him and totally blows us off, he wouldn't even take a card, so we go on our way. Now this is the unexpected part, we are walking back to our bikes and as we walk past this house this same guy comes out of the front door and calls out to us: " OK now I'm interested." So we walk up to the porch and he asks us how old we are so we say 19 and 20 and then he asked why we are doing what we do and it turned into a solid teaching opportunity and now we have taught him the Restoration lesson and given him a Book of Mormon and we also talked about getting baptized so it was way cool. It just goes to show that there are always reasons for everything and one of those reasons for young men called as missionaries is to set an example.

So a temporal miracle that happened this week was a bike ride out to a meal appointment with a member. Now there was more to this ride than what one might think because it was 5 miles and it was up and down some gnarly hills, but it was a miracle. i think one it was an answer to our prayers about being able to get there safe but also a fulfillment of the promises that we are given for keeping the Word of Wisdom. I was able to conquer every hill with relative ease and still had plenty of energy left over, plus it was a beautiful ride through the country.

So something that I didn't have enough time last week to tell you about was that we were having a baptism on Sunday and it went really well. He is an 11 year old that we have been teaching for the past couple of weeks now and his mom was less active but is now super strong. One thing that was really funny about it all was that when the branch president put him under the first time he kicked his legs like a back stroke so he did it again and this time the president stood on his feet but this time he went under with his mouth wide open, hahaha, it was really funny.

So I'm still working hard and everything is going great in fact we just got back from a members house named Bro. Alwood who was showing us a bunch of survival stuff and let me tell you what he knows his stuff, he was a army sniper, he worked for a company called black water(ask Kent) and now he travels the world giving trainings on survival and other stuff.

love ya
Elder Nelson