Investigators

Hello all,

It is the start of my third week in my third transfer and all is pretty well with me. We have a few investigators but each of them have pretty complicated situations that we have to work with until they can be baptized. One of them lives with the father of her child who she no longer is involved with but she recently got engaged to her boyfriend that we have taught a few lessons to. She can't get baptized until she moves out of the house or marries the man she's not engaged to so that doesn't seem likely. So right now our plan is to try and encourage them to drastically speed up their engagement process and then baptize them both. Our investigator who seems most prepared for baptism unfortunately lives with her fiance. We haven't taught her that rule yet so she doesn't know that she needs to move out or get married already but we're hoping that she takes the message well and perhaps their engagement will be drastically shortened as well.

I'm getting along with my new companion pretty well. He's very easy to get along with, just kind of relaxed and funny. He's not exactly at the most focused stage in his mission since he is looking at going home in, he told me this morning, 79 days. But he is still working pretty hard and I'm trying to get him up on time in the mornings.

We are also involved with some less active/ part member families and trying to teach there and see if we can get anyone active or baptized. One family are pet fanatics. Apparantly their house used to be a complete sty and no one could hardly stand being in there for any period of time. They had so many dogs and cats and whatnot that the smell was unbearable. My last companion had visited once before I got to the area and he had to go home and take a shower directly afterward. But the city cracked down on them and they are watched and limited to two dogs and cats and then they have two parrots. They used to have a bobcat that weighed 40 pounds and it was the youngest childs best friend. The parrots are funny. One of them is named Toowie and has just the best timing when delivering a line. And my favorite is when one of the owners yells at him to be quieter and he then whispers his own name repeatedly. But they are a fun family and the father likes the church he just couldn't quit smoking 20 years ago when they were investigating.

So those are the people we're working with as well as some others. It's hard to find new people but we're trying. Not that the old ones aren't a handful enough, but we are here to find as many as will listen.

Have a happy Thanksgiving everyone and I'll write next week.

Sincerely, Elder Miller