October 17, 2011

Well its been another week and this saturday I’ll have been on my mission 4 months time flies when your having fun I guess or something close to it at times. This week was pretty cool we were able to have a mission tour done by Elder Zwick of the 70. His wife and him gave great talks that I took a few notes on but probably the coolest thing to come out of the mission tour was that Elder Bednar gave the land or Pennsylvania an apostolic blessing. Elder Zwick brought it with him and read it over the podium. We plan on seeing great things in the area as well as the general authorities if I can gather that from the fact that there blessing the land. One thing that Elder Zwick talked about the most was how its the members that make the church successful especially in missionary work. So we’re changing our focus and going to try and get the members to do some work and to get us their friends to teach not just hittin doors and hoping for luck.

We had an interesting encounter with this lady while we were out tracing. She was out in her yard doing some work so we approached here and offered to help. She said she was fine but she then asked what the book of mormon was in our church to relation to the "word of god." Elder banks told here what we believed and she kinda started to try and convert us. She said in the short story version that we don’t need anything other then the bible why would we god gave us a beginning a middle and an end the book of mormon isn’t needed. She said she wrote a story every sunday for the paper on Christianity or something of that nature and she said she would pray for us and that we would find our way back to the understanding of how simple God is. While she was talking all I could think of is in 2nd Nephi 29: 3-7 where it says a bible a bible we need no more bible. Its people like her that make me worry and wonder why they dont want to have more.

But enough with that I’ll answer the questions given at the beginning. Somerset is going well its kinda different but its still good its strange though the mission presidents son lives in my area so it almost feels like you have someone watchin you all the time. The companions are good I'm actually loosing one because someone in another area is getting emergency transferred so he’s going to go fill the spot so its just going to be me and elder banks and he leaves home at the end of this transfer. Its kinda cool having 2 comps but its going to be good I think to go back to 2 its a little easier to live in the apartments we have with 2. And honestly I don’t know what kind of insulation was in that house probably asbestos but I'm still kicking so its all good. But I'm runnin low on time and I've got to go but I love you guys and hope to hear from you soon


Elder Kartchner