September 28th E-mail

Whats going on?!?! Its good to hear from you guys! I'm glad highland kicked some trash! and BYU as well. That is a tough loss for my 9ers though... Oh well at least they are playing well. How to you let an old bag of dirt beat you though... anyways.. Mom I'm very proud of you for keeping up on your reading! You are awesome! And dad way to go on conducting eh? that a boy! :D Getting into book clubs and prepping for the trek and so on and so forth my goodness when i get home i will never see you guys... :D lol! that's ok though I will probably be spending a fair amount of time with Shannon :D So we had a way cool experience this week. There is this recent convert family of about 9 months or so and apparently when they joined they were absolutely on fire. He got called to be the young men's secretary and she got a pretty cool calling as well. Well they got a little overwhelmed and stopped coming and for a while they even said that people could come by just don't bring up the gospel. Well I had met them a few times and just kind of tried to break the ice again. Well we were trying to meet with him all last week and this week but we have just had the worst timing when we go over. So Saturday we go over and sure enough they are running out the door but he says to us you know what lets set up an appointment for tomorrow at 2:00 and I have some questions for you guys... And so we set the appointment and we went and had just an awesome lesson! They had went to the bookstore and bought a book from the LDS section and it is titled "Why would anyone join the LDS church?" and it is a fabulous book. I cant remember who wrote it but its written by a guy who joined the church himself and he goes into a lot of detail about certain questions a things that people have that are sincerely investigating the church and he answers them in a way that is in great detail but is simple and easy to understand. So they just randomly picked that book and it happens to be one of the best books that they could have bought at that time. But as they read it they just had a few questions so they asked away and with the Spirit of the Lord we were able to address all of their concerns in a way that they were able to understand! In fact the wife asked us about "don't add to or take away out of revelations" and her husband said oh honey they answered that a long time ago and started to share the answer to it and she goes ya i know but i just like hearing how they explain things! :D so it was just a very positive experience and one that the ward has been waiting for for a long time. We are meeting with them again on Tuesday and they are excited to watch conference with us this weekend! and also tonight we are going to be putting Brian Abbott on-date for baptism! woot! We also had zone conference this week and found out that in October ELDER BEDNAR is coming to speak to us as a mission!!!!! INSANE! I am so freaking excited! and President Palmer said that he likes to do a Q and A. So what in the heck would you ask an Apostle of the Lord if you had the opportunity? Yep i don't have a clue either! But i am excited to sit at his feet and feel the spirit! I seriously cant wait! Its going to be a once in a lifetime deal for me! :D and conference is coming up! Man its going to be a very spiritual October this year! One i will probably never forget! (until i get Alzheimer's) But hey mom no worries I don't need anything.. I am on the down stretch and everything that i have is just going to have to make it work :D No use having more stuff to pack around.. :D But i appreciate you always asking. I mean if you feel like you just absolutely need to get me something then just take 20 bucks and go put it in the marriage fund at the bank :D (aka my bank account) But only if it will make you feel better :D lol! I love you guys! Thank you for all that you do! You are awesome! I love you guys so much! Take care!

Elder Penman