Hi!                                                   Sept 9, 2013

We'll, I have already had to change computers at the library because the other one killed its internet connection. Fortunately, I wasn't typing my weekly letter yet, so not all was lost. With last Monday being Labor Day and last P-Day being Tuesday. This report will be from that Tuesday to today.

It was a pretty normal week as far as things go. We did lots of tracting because all our planned lessons fell through for a second week in a row. We’re not too discouraged, you can't do much when your investigators are sick or out of town for the holiday. We were successful at re-establishing appointments with most of them, and we know that many of them are still reading the Book of Mormon - hurray!!!

This week we continued to hit new ground because of our bikes. We met the L__family and the SJ__ family. We haven't had a lesson yet with them but both have scheduled lessons for this week. We gave them a Book of Mormon and invited them to read, we gave a basic introduction to the Book of Mormon. The Larson family has two sets of twins!

At Zone teaching meeting this week we learned that President and Sister Cutler are pushing to have more missionaries in more areas instead of just placing two sets of Elders in one ward. He would rather place missionaries in new areas where Missionaries have not been to yet. With our boarders changing THIS SATURDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My area will officially be 1/3 of the whole U.P with that much ground we are starting to wonder if President Cutler is going to place Elders in a town called Newberry. This is all a "what if" or a "He might" situation because no one has confirmed our thoughts on this. This does open up a window of opportunity for me to open up a new area of the mission and still be a young missionary.

On Saturday we had a pretty heavy bike riding day. We estimate that we rode 25 miles. First to Indian Lake to meet our nine potentials in that area, then to a lesson with a member that lives 30 minutes away from us by bike. He wasn't home and neither was the less active that lives in the area. It was a lot of bike riding with very little success.

To conclude the week, we met a woman last night while tracting who was born and raised Reformed LDS. She was extremely polite to us and shared her testimony of the Book of Mormon, we asked if she would be interested in meeting with us and she agreed. We also invited her to church and she said she would be interested. It was very interesting talking to her because she has a solid knowledge of the Book of Mormon as well as a testimony of it, and yet she wasn't LDS. It just seemed a little weird.

Attached is the link to my Mormon.org profile: http://mormon.org/me/CJCH/AndrewLuymes

Scripture for the week: Moroni 6:8

But as oft as they repented and sought forgiveness, with real intent, they were forgiven.