Email received March 2, 2015

Hello everyone!

This week was pretty rough but got good at the end. This whole week has been wet, dark, and coooolllldddd! Up until the weekend it seemed like an endless bike ride in the cold that didn’t end for 4 days with not much else happening. haha. So here are the highlights of this week.

The Martin’s son, Cole, came home from his mission on Monday. He served in Everett WA. He came over to our apartment Monday night to meet us after he got released and we talked with him for awhile. There’s something about being around RM’s that’s really cool. I don’t know what it is. Ok, the next highlight was we had another lesson with Mary this week. We went over and brought Cole with us. We read the first 2 chapters of the book of Mormon. It went well. She seems really curious but also really hesitant. We will be meeting with her again this week. On Saturday we had another lesson with Margaret where we read the first 2 chapters of the Book of Mormon. It went well. Ok, so here’s the best part about the week:

Sunday. Besides church, all day has been really slow. At night we do some tracting. It got really cold all of the sudden and we decided to bike back and get our jackets. Well, we get to the apartment, use the bathroom, grab our jackets and you can tell that my companion and I really just do not want to go back out there. It’s 8:30, it’s way too cold, and the air is just way too wet. Well, we both grudgingly decide we better go back out and do something. We went over to visit a potential investigator that we tracted into at the beginning of the week. When we first met her a couple nights ago we said a prayer with her for her husband, and left her a book of Mormon with a promise that it would grow her testimony and knowledge of the savior. So Sunday night we go over there, she lets us in and we have an awesome discussion with her. She told us about how she has a hard time forgiving others. We talked about forgiveness and the atonement. She had already started reading in the book of Mormon! Anyway, it was a powerful visit and we are going back tonight. It was a really cool miracle because we could have easily stayed in or could have easily decided it was too late to go visit her but it worked out well!

So there’s the update of the week! Love you all and hope you have a great week!

-Elder Steed