Whats going on?!?! Arent the Frantz' just great?! I love em. So im sure she told you about the baptism but it went fantastic! Infact Brian's mom and dad (arent members) were there and also his grandmother and grandfather (arent members either) were there as well.. When his parents first got there he goes oh and mom and dad this is the missionaries.. Introduced us and then he goes oh and by the way they are great elders and so if you want to take discussions from them well these would be the ones to do it with cause they are the best! LOL! His parents just kind of smiled and let it roll off..(I dont blame them it was funny so i was kinda laughing..) And so for halftime (while they are getting dressed after the baptism) We taught the restoration.. And they loved it! We had his parents full attention as we shared that. So hopefully we planted a seed that can continue to be nourished.. So then on Saturday we got together with the whole mission in Spokane! To meet with Elder Bednar! We took a mission picture with him aswell! it was fun! I got a posterity picture with all my boys! :D Elder Bednar was great! He didnt prepare a talk or anything he came and told us that tonight might be a little different than you expected. Elder Rasband (Presidency of the seventy) and I havent prepared some long talks for you or anything but tonight will be a revelatory experience. An opportunity for you to recieve revelation and be taught by the Holy Ghost. And i must tell you that it was! It was so awesome! He is such a wonderful man! That meeting was not about him at all! He was so HUMBLE! I could not believe it! I was absolutely floored! I learned so much! I dont have time to write everything down that he said. But one thing that stuck out to me was that he said "the purpose of the gospel is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable" It is so true. He said some on you will be taught by the Holy Ghost on things for the people you are working with and so on. but he said that some of you are going to be shown a few things that you could improve on which is part of the Holy Ghosts job. To let us know what we are doing wrong so that we can change it. Hence afflicting the comfortable :D But it was awesome! Another part the stuck out to me is when he talked about obedience. He said that we not only have to learn how to do the things the Lord has asked us to do (which is just what most people think about even myself) But he said that we must learn to love to do the thing that the Lord asks us to do! He said then we will be with people that love to obey as well. But if we hate to obey then we will be with people that hate to obey... (that's the shortened version anyways..) But it made me do a lot of reflecting! And I absolutely love Elder Bednar! :D And then to top the meeting off our ward mission leader Bro Robison came with us to that meeting and from that meeting we went directly to a teaching appointment where we were teaching Debbie Haynes the Jehovah Witness. I wont tell you everything that happened during the lesson due to time but during the lesson she broke down in tears and with a smile on her face lifted her head and said "does anyone else feel that?" as she was holding her chest. And we said yes and she said "I studied with the witnesses for YEARS and never have i felt anything like that!" The spirit pretty much took her breath away! IT was one of the neatest lessons that i have been in! We are teaching her again tonight! and she is awesome! So what a way to top off that spiritual meeting! I LOVE THE LORD! I absolutely love Him! He guides everything we do! And I love it! So now for the moment that you have all been waiting for.... I'M GETTING TRANSFERRED!!! I will be serving in Clayton. It is just outside of Deerpark in Washington. And its in the same Zone that i was in as a greenie! I am going to "mom" someone.. An Elder that came out with Elder Allred and his name is Elder Tueller. Elder Tueller's trainer who came out with me, Elder Yancey, Is coming to "mom" Elder Allred so we are doing a swap :D So that will be pretty dang fun! I have a car full time! So i can put on some weight during the winter! LOL! But i am excited! This could possibly be my last area!!! crazy huh! weird but here is the mailing address: # 10-A N. Reiper St. Deerpark WA 99006 so please give that to Shannon :D and tell her to send me a tape and some pictures! :D she is worried that she cant fill up a whole tape so tell her that you guys will blab on it for a while.. :D lol! but anyways i am excited! Clayton sounds like a killer place! its definitely boonies though! I'm going from having 800 miles a month here to having 1250 miles a month there.. so that lets ya know kinda what it will be like :D But hey i love you guys very much! I'm glad the surgery went well on dads eye.. i figured something would be getting loose in there with how many times i beat him up.... :D i am glad everything is ok now! lol mom i tell all my companions that i go to stake conference with that its supposed to be our day off! lol! But isn't stake conference so good?!?! I love it! Thanks for all you do! I love you guys! It gets super cold in Clayton so I might try to push it through the winter without boots but i might need some... so there is an idea for Christmas.. But we will kinda play it by ear.. I love you guys! Thanks for everything you do! Take care of yourselves!
Elder Penman
