Email received January 20, 2015

Hello everyone,

We had a great week! We found 3 new investigators this week. One is named Ashley and the other Jeffrey. We met Ashley at the beginning of December and were finally able to teach her. The lesson went well. We just met on her doorstep and challenged her to read and pray about the Book of Mormon. Elder Beck and I have recently changed how we teach and find. We are trying our hardest to teach when we find. Rather than try and set up another time to come back and have a whole long process that takes a month before we ever see them again. If we see them again. Anyway, we are teaching more simply and being more conversational and personal rather than formal about everything. Not sure how interested Ashley is but I guess we will see.

We had a lesson with Jeffrey on Sunday. We found him tracting one night and were able to share quite a bit about the Restoration on his doorstep and he invited us back. We brought one of the priests with us, Seth Martin. The lesson went great. He seemed really open and understood pretty much everything. We should be going back sometime this week and following up on if he's read and prayed.

The last new investigator happened last night as we were tracting. We knocked on her door and we ended up teaching the Restoration right then and there. She seemed really prepared and really open. We left her a Book of Mormon and challenged her to read and pray about it. She said if she got an answer that it's true she would be baptized. We are going back next Monday. It's been amazing the miracles we have seen as we have started to find during the hours we've been asked to. Even if it is tracting for 2 hours. Every day I don't want to do it, but we see a miracle each time. It's awesome.

So here's an interesting story that happened Wednesday morning. We had just left our apartment and were biking on a road right next to our complex. It's just a little 2-lane road that has a really sharp right turn toward the end of it. So were biking down this road, coming close to the turn and in the background we have been hearing sirens. They are getting louder and louder and all of a sudden a Dodge Charger comes zooming by us going about 70 mph. I look behind us and see 5 cop cars! Then I look forward and the car goes straight at the turn, jumps the ditch by the side of the road, nails into someone's fence to their back yard, gets out and starts running through the back yard he just made a hole in. It was pretty epic, we decided we should probably get away from all of it. So as we're biking away we see 3 more cop cars come by and a helicopter. It was pretty epic. haha. Well there is our past week for you. I love you all. Have a great week!

-Elder Steed