Billy's Mission: Shake your sprinkles like you just don´t care!

I don´t know how to start with an email this week, so I went with the twelve year old boy strategy of saying that I don´t know how to start in order to start. Confused? Good, let´s move forward.

I can say that I´m really sick of this church building. Why? Because, I´m sick of this church building. We´ve been in here practicing so much in order to get ready for the performance on Friday. We´re all very stressed out, practices are.... sometimes a bit tense. However we´re trying our best to stay positive despite how difficult it is. This schedule wreaks utter havoc on the numbers we give at the end of the week. And you know, numbers are everything. (HAH! I kill me)

Despite the intense amount of practice, will still managed to get out and do some cool stuff this week. We taught an awesome lesson to a less active member named Ivan. We are planning on going back to teach his non-member wife. We really hope that works out. During our lesson we learned a really cool lesson about being full missionaries and what that is versus so-called "exact obedience". Elder Muller described it really well, so check his blog for it. It gets more traffic than mine, anyway! (Once again! Numbers, baby!)

We taught a few investigators, no crazy big breakthroughs or anything. Just good spiritual lessons. We did have an interesting experience on Sunday, though. A man showed up to church and began talking with our Bishop´s wife. She called me over and had me talk to him. He was apparently writing a book and he wanted to see our views as a church on some subjects. He came for Gospel Principles and Sacrament Meeting. We turned Gospel Principles into a big Q&A session for him. It turns out he´s from a religion called Baha´i, which is quite interesting. It was cool to learn about something I´d never heard of before, and also to be able to testify of the truth in all faiths and that of my own. He enjoyed Sacrament Meeting and was just a genuinely pleasant fellow. He wasn´t interested in making an appointment with us to learn anything. He said he had enough for his book apparently he just wanted a little half page blurb or so. But hey, any publicity is good publicity, right? Except anti-material. That´s a pain in the booty and has led to the loss of many an investigator! That was really an old English form. You know you´re a missionary when.....

Oh, we went to the beach last P-day for Elder Muller´s birthday! It was super fun, and I have some pictures from it.