First and foremost for this weekly update: Elder Thompson and I have decided to introduce bikes into our area. We have so few miles and so many potentials plus a boarder change coming up that will give us 1/3 of the entire U.P. Mom and Dad: please take my bike to a shop and get it tuned, then send my bike, helmet, bike lights, my seat pouch, and my bike lock. All of it ASAP please. Elder Thompson and I are both hoping/planning on having our bikes in hand on August 14th. So please send it prior to that date so that we can progress in the Lords work. Thank you.

I have an Address correction: my correct address is:

Elder Luymes

207 1/2 S. Cedar St. Apt 2

Manistique, MI 49854-1425

I am not getting transferred this week so feel free to send letters.

This week was very exciting and filled with miracles. Our progressing investigator Josie agreed to an August 31 baptism with a special request to be baptized in a lake!!! On Friday we met Mike, he is an x-convict who came across the Book of Mormon while in prison. He has read nearly the entire book and knows that it is true. He has a very demanding work schedule so we weren’t able to set up an appointment with him but he asked for our number and said that he was happy to have the discussions with us. We hope he commits to a baptism for either August 31 or early September. Then on Saturday we met Heather, she is a mother of 4 and is a member of the church but hasn’t been active for many years. She wants to come back to church and she wants her eligible children to be baptized. She too asked for our number and invited us to come on over when ever so that we could begin having the discussions with her children and non-member boyfriend. Then on Sunday we got a special request from a dropped investigator asking us to come over to his house. When we did and talked with him he said he was interested in getting back into things and having the discussions. He has a very serious smoking problem but he has shown true interest in us and so we have high hope for him. As you can tell from these four examples, God is blessing us each and every day. And with so many strong potential baptisms we may need a new building and a promotion from group to branch.

A funny thing happened on Sunday. One of our members gives us food every Sunday, so we always leave it in the fridge until we leave and then we put the food in the car. But we left the food in the church building and we were the ones who locked the building. Well... we don’t have a key to the building anymore and now we don’t have Sunday dinner. So we spent an hour trying to break into the church building just because we wanted the food that bad, and also because we were out of food at our apartment. so our Sunday dinner consisted of: the last two hotdogs, the last two tortillas, the last two slices of lunch ham, the last four eggs, and hot sauce, ranch dressing, BBQ sauce, spaghetti sauce, and rice. Yum! We eat five star in the U.P.!

That’s all folks!!! Until next time from Yooperville.

Elder Luymes

Marquette District Rocks!

Yooper Bars made by the Sayklly Family in our "Twig".