Season 3 episode 6, December 7, 2015

Dear Family and friends,

This week was definitely not boring. We had some fun this week.

(Mom note: I asked Alex where he was for Thanksgiving, and if he was transferred to a new area.)  We spent thanksgiving with some of the members.

I am staying in Portland. The same area as I am in now. Elder Moore is my comp.

Tuesday-

We met two mentally insane people. One was a church referral. We

contacted her and found out she had used the missionaries in the past. It

was a creepy place we went. We found out she was insane and we dropped

her. (mission speak for not teaching her.) Then we had another referral that was insane. He said he was kicked out of a psychologists office. It was insane. Pun intended! We also met a way drunk guy who told us he was from LA. From  the 18th street ( gang) it was a really funny meeting. (Funny???? sounds scary to me.)

Wednesday-

We were on exchanges. I was with Elder Munger. He is actually from

Riverton. We had a really rough day and we were working hard. Nothing

was happening. We knocked on like 50 doors. Then we had a member come

out with us. Suddenly we had miracles. We taught a lady who didn't want to

talk to us  at first but she noticed that we had something special. Then we went

and visited another lady. We were able to get in because we had a

Member with us. Then we taught a guy right outside her house. He asked us

questions like, “What happened to the ancient people of America?” We had

a solid day.

Thursday-

We were on exchanges again. It wasn't very fun to do back to back

exchanges in your own area. I was so tired. When I’m in charge it stresses me out to make it go good. We were tracting then we met another miracle. She came up to us and we talked to her. She wanted to know which church is true. Then we called her the next day and she said she was reading and got an answer to her prayer to stay on the course. It was so sweet.

Saturday-

We took our investigators to the temple visitors center. It was sweet.

They need it so bad. That is such a good missionary tool. Way cool

experience. One lesson we learned. When the day is rough, pray and

it will eventually turn out.

Love you all,

✌Elder Astle 👊

We had a picture sent from our "nephew" in Alex's mission.  Yay Tyler for sending pictures...Alex doesn't send as many!

Elder Tyler Jones and our goofy guy!