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August 24th E-mail

Whats happening?!?! I have to tell you that it is just fun to hear from you guys! You are filled with the spirit and with joy! and i absolutely love it! Sucks to hear that Highland lost.. just don't let Hunter stomp all over you.. That is never fun..(not that Ive ever been there before) :) But hey also if you can find out let me know how taylorsville is doing.

We had an absolutely amazing week this week! It has been so much fun! Ok so on Friday we taught this guy named Lyle and he is an older guy probably in his 60's but he had expressed how when his wife died he became bitter towards God and so on but he allowed us to teach him and i know that he felt the spirit! so we got a return appt. with him and then later that night we taught a new family and the parent names are Joe & Elaine. They seemed fairly interested as well and the lesson went really well and so we will continue to teach them as well and so we were very happy because that was 3 new gators! Well then we went on exchanges and i went to CDA (Coeur d' Alene) And elder Allred took over the area for a day. While i was in CDA we found 3 new investigators and i got to interview 3 people for baptism that are all getting baptized this next Saturday! so that was just awesome! But while Elder Killpack and Elder Allred were here in Post Falls they tracted like all day long. They did end up finding one new investigator but they feel that he isn't very solid.. but anyways they kept tracting and they were getting a lot of opposition and what not. They even ran into a guy who told them that he wanted to set up a public debate with our bishop. which by the way Bishop Rouse would own him... but that's beside the point. Fact is they were just getting hammered well it was getting late and so they decided to knock on 2 more doors. Well they knocked on the first one and it was a lady whose husband in a less-active member and she sounded like she was fairly interested... So they got into the house and started answering some of their questions and what not and the lady said oh and i have a 12 year old daughter that wants to be baptized.. And so they taught her and her daughter (Juanita and Kimberly) and put them on-date for the 26th of September! And so they held out until the very last door and they found 2 new investigators that the Lord had absolutely prepared for them when they could have easily given up and went home.. And now we have 2 awesome people on-date for baptism! So this week we ended up with 6 new investigators and 2 on-dates... Is that amazing or what! I really appreciate all of your prayers!

I cant believe how much the Lord is blessing us in all of our lives! I hope that we can all remain Humble and Prayerful and look to Him for guidance in our lives! I know that He is there and that He is watching over and blessing us! I love this work! There is nothing greater than missionary work! and it always helps to have a good companion! :D I love you guys! Thanks for everything that you do for me! and for all of your prayers! Take care! love ya!

Elder Penman