So this past week we had a lot of miracles take place!  As a district we were really pushing to meet our monthly goals!  Some of us were really behind on our monthly goal so we knew we were going to have to reach a little bit! Well I was very proud of everyone because we each either met our goals or came very very close to meeting them!  The one that stood out to me was how many new investigators we found!  Here in Sheep Springs we have had a hard time finding new investigators but this week we found 4!  It seemed like we could find so many less actives but the investigators were hiding somewhere! Well this week they came out of the wood work!  one of the 4 that really stands out in my mind was there was a white guy named rick that came running up to us at the gas station and told us he was really struggling in his life and how he needed help come to find out he actually lives in our area and we were able to get his number and where he lived and we were able to find him!  It was awesome!  We are really excited to be able to start and continue working with the new people we have found this week!  We also had a lot of fun at district meeting this week!  We have been working on making our district meetings really creative and having fun and learning that way rather than just reading everything out of the book!  So this past week we had a Frisbee toss contest and a nerf gun war ha-ha that all had to do with working with the ward leaders it was very very fun to do!  It kept everyone entertained and no one was dozing off so I say it turned out great!  The sisters also provided a lunch for us they brought steaks and chips and drinks it was awesome!  But yet they didn’t know how to cook steaks so we had to cook them for them???? Ha-ha good thing that me and Elder Kuns are grilling masters! Ha-ha Anyway all in all it turned out for a great week!  We also had a cook out on Monday with the Elders in the district we went up to the mountain and grilled out it was very very fun!  Anyway take care and have a great week!

So this past week was a really good one there was a lot that went on!  On Thursday we had interviews with our mission president, President Batt!  Those happen about every 3 months! I really look forward to being able to sit down with President Batt because he is a great guy and there is a lot to learn from him!  So that was nice to be able to visit with him!  I love the fact that there are over 150 missionaries that president is over, but for 15 minutes, we get to sit down just one on one with him!  He really gave me a lot of great advice on how to finish my mission strong and how really these last couple months are what are going to determine how I live the rest of my life.  Also how it would set the course for the rest of my life!  It was great to be able to visit with him! We also had another fun experience this week when me and Elder Sparks were in bed at about11 p.m. at night and all of the sudden we got a huge loud knock at our door!  Well the thing out here on the reservation is, you never knock on peoples doors at night, especially at 11 pm at night.  So I got up out of bed and went to the door and looked out the window and there were 3 drunk guys trying to get into our house.  Ha-ha it was pretty scary cause I could hear them moving the door handle and trying to open the living room window!  But I decided instead of going outside and kicking them out I would just go back to bed!  So that’s what I did!  So then at 12 am we both wake up to the same thing again knocking and pounding on the door so we just stayed in bed until they finally left!  So finally we thought we were good so we went back to bed!  Then we woke up to pounding and a lot of wrestling with the door handle at about 1:30 at this point I was sick and tired of it.  I had to be the bad guy, I opened the door and scared the heck out of the two of them (there was only two of them this time idk where the other one went) and told them if they didn’t get out of our property they would be spending the night in jail!  Ha-ha it was funny watching them run away and falling every 5 feet!  After that we finally got some sleep!  It’s crazy the things we experience out here!  It was funny seeing the look on Elder Sparks face after I walked back into the room for the third time mad as I can be after I just yelled at them!  Don’t wake me up at 1 in the morning to a pounding on the door!  Anyway it was a great week and we saw a lot of people this week! You’re not going to believe this either, but we found some new less actives!  No new investigators but yep we found some new less actives!  So that was awesome anyway take care have a great week!

So this past week was so much of the same!  This might make you laugh but we found a new less active family again this week.  No new investigators but yep new less actives!  It has been amazing how prepared these less actives have been to be able to receive the gospel once again!  They almost all have the same story and that is that they once went on the Indian placement program got baptized and now have not been to church since!  The couple we found this week were probably in there 60's and the husband actually just got diagnosed with cancer and found out he is going to have to be going through chemotherapy!  You can tell he is a little shaken up from it as anyone would be but he is looking for something to put his faith him to be able to help him through these struggles!  We found him by simply meeting with one of the old Branch Presidents who lives here who has been going through a hard time.  He has been recently coming back to church but has been off the straight and narrow for quite some time now!  It’s sad to see someone such as a Branch President lose a testimony that used to be so strong!  He is doing really good lately and has been making a lot of changes in his life.  We asked him if there is anyone he knew that we could see that we could help out! He sent us over to the house where these new people live.  I love the Navajo people so much!  They are such strong faithful people and the humble ones are honestly the most faithful people I will ever meet in my life!  I love being around them and they make my day that much better!  No matter what struggle they go through in their lives they always have the faith to push through it!  Anyway it’s been super nice out here now that the sun has come out.  It has been really good weather!  That makes for a lot of fun :) hope you all take care and have a great week :)

So it's official this week I officially became an uncle, I was so excited he is such a cute little guy!  I can't wait to be able to see him when I get home!  He is going to be my little buddy!  Anyway things down here this week have been really good! We found this new less active family that lives about 6 miles up in the mountains this week!  It was so awesome me and Elder Sparks had nothing to do Saturday afternoon so we decided to see where one of the roads we have never gone on would lead to and to see if anyone lived up it!  We saw that somebody had been driving up and down the road for quite a while,  we promised that if we found any houses up that road that we would tract them!  So we did and man the very last house on the road that we got to, we got out of the truck and started walking up and instantly we could see for some reason this guy was very excited to see us! (Which was very unusual because we have been pretty used to the opposite reaction ha-ha)  So we started talking with him, turns out he was baptized a while back and he needed some help hauling wood into his house so he asked us for help!  We started helping him anyway long story short he is an awesome guy he is a really do it your selfer.   He said that we could come back anytime and sit down and read the Book of Mormon with him so we were really excited!  Anyway later in the week we had a lot of opportunities to chop some wood, a lot of the old ladies called us needing help this week so we always love to be able to help them out it was fun!  It was a rough day at church yesterday, not a whole lot of people showed up I think because of the time change and there was also a high school basketball game clear across the state so everyone got back late from that!  Anyway things are good here in sheep springs I'm loving it and it has been fun! I'm running out of time on the computer so I have to run!  

So this past week was pretty crazy!  We woke up to about 9 inches of snow this week and then it all melted away and then on Saturday we woke up to about 6 inches of snow!  So there has definitely been a lot of snow around here lately!  Which has led us to doing a lot of service projects!  On each of those days it snowed we took the church's snow shovel and we shoveled all the sidewalks at the church and then we went out and shoveled all the single ladies driveways and porches here in sheep springs we shoveled walkways out to their wood piles so they would be ok and wouldn’t be tripping or falling it made us feel really good and I could really tell it meant a lot to them!  We also chopped a lot of wood to help people get ready for the storm and even chopped some during the storm ha-ha it was a snowy experience!  But it was a blast!  Now that all the snow has melted it has just left us with nothing but mud everywhere!  Our truck is so so muddy and every time we even step out of the truck we sink about 3 inches in the mud!  Ha-ha it has made for a muddy mess at first I kind of liked it I thought it was super cool now I’m just tired of all the mud ha-ha.  It has been hard as well, we have not been able to go too far off the main roads because of all the mud or we would definitely get stuck!  So, we have been playing it safe to a point ha-ha anyway not much this week just a lot of service!  Its crazy down here the people that live too far off the main road are not able to come out of their houses at all or else they will get stuck so if they need groceries they have to wait until about 2 AM in the morning before they leave there house so the mud will be frozen so they won’t get stuck and then they have to come back around that time the same night!  I swear sometimes I feel like I’m serving in a foreign country and I love it!  I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else!  Take care and have a great week!