You guys have no idea how good New York bagels are -

Maybe dad does.
But they are so dang good. We eat them all the time. I just did,
that's why I mention them.  The everything bagel is the best. It's got
sesame seeds, poppy seeds, and large chunks of sea salt on it. And the
bread is so soft and it's all amazing.

Last night I weighed in at _85! So I lost 5 lbs recently!
  Hopefully I can keep it off and keep losing some.
I'll go shopping today and I hope I can get some fruits and things.

I don't know exactly what's going on today. But it'll probably end up
like every other pday. Oh well. As long as I get my fruits, I'll be
okay.

Mike has been progressing very well, but we think that he needs more
fellowship from the ward, so we pushed his baptism back a week. But
now it's after transfers, and i have no idea what'll happen next. I
could stay here a long time, and Izatt could only be here for this
one. At the beginning he was saying that we could stay together
longer. But now he's thinking we won't be together again. And I have
to lead this pool and get mike baptized, and also keep teaching the
other people we got this transfer.
 It's been good, cuz last transfer, we didn't get pretty much
anything. But now for some reason, we have a lot of people. Or a few
investigators and a few potentials.


Those pics of us at the Avila's again, that was their first time
making root beer floats. I can't remember how it came up, probably me.
But they wanted to try it, and so they got the stuff and when we got
there, we showed them how to do it. I said they have to experiment on
the ratio to get it how they like it.
  The kids don't really like it, cuz it tastes like medicine. I've
heard that in other countries, their medicine tastes like that, so no
one likes root beer.  And same with USA, our medicine is cherry, so we
don't like cherry soda. But we love our root beer!
   Home made root beer and maybe even home made ice cream would be a
great treat. It's never too cold for ice cream!

Oh cool! We just got our first referral! We've been here for three
months, and this the first one for our pool!


So.... I've lost my train of thought when that came in...

I've been doing okay. Could always be better.

We looked this guy up, and it wasn't the address, but we tried it
anyway, and it was this old Korean guy who yelled at us for coming to
his house and asking for someone who doesn't live there. Then we left,
but we were still on the road his house is on, just a little ways off,
and after a few minutes- (We were taking and figuring where to go,
that's why we didn't leave) - he comes up to the car and yells at us
again for coming late, at 7:30, almost 8, and that we shouldn't come
back uninvited again!   It was so funny.

One thing I don't like is when people lie to us saying they don't know
who so and so is, when they most likely do, or that they say they're
not Mormon anymore. And every one of those people have not taken the
right steps to be removed from the records. They just stop doing
Mormon things and stop coming to church. So because they aren't
active, they consider themselves "not Mormon".  Even though they are.
It's a way of life, not a state of mind.
  Like those people who believe all they need to do to be saved is say
"Jesus Christ is my savior" and they're good for life.
They can probably go do whatever they want, good or bad. Then right
before they die, they say that and they're saved.

We found an awesome family last week, their name is Krywak. German I
think. But its a mom and dad with two young sons. We taught them last
night and it was a good lesson. The dad, Dave, said that he had a
couple strokes in the past, and that nothing really bad came of them.
He lost sight in one eye for a while, but he just needs glasses now.
And he said that if we had knocked on his door 4 years ago, he would
not even listen for a second. But because of what he's gone through,
he will listen to anything about Jesus.  That's cool I guess. But it's
a good family. Hopefully we can keep teaching them and they will love
this gospel.


Last Monday after I emailed we went on an adventure with the
Mansuetto's daughter, Eliza. We all went to the beach in kings park,
and hiked through the forest and went down to the beach and the other
three elders saw a large rock in the middle of one of the river
things, so they decided to get on top of it. Even though the river was
like 20 yards across, and there was really no way to stay out of the
water.   So they got large rocks and tried to make a bridge across to
a little spot of something out there next to the rock. But the water
was deep so there wasn't really a way to cross dry. And someone
slipped in a bit, so they all just walked in the water to the dryer
spot next to the rock. And stood there looking at it, trying to get to
it. Hart went first and he waded in knee high until he got right next
to the rock, and he fell in waist deep! Hahaha it was so funny! I'm
standing on the shore watching everything. And the sisters were
watching it too.   So eventually they all got on the rock even though
they all got half or more wet.
Everyone's shorts were wet, and most of hart was wet. It was funny.