We found another cell phone! No joke, we really did. Although this one was not smart and it had no minutes left on it so we couldn't call the people on the contacts list in an effort to return the phone to the owner. This phone was also different, I'm not sure if I would want to return it to its owner because we’re pretty sure that whoever the owner was, he was drug dealing with the locals. There were some really suspicious texts on that phone. I'm glad we eventually got rid of it. In other news...we got in a car crash this week.

I'll explain the car crash. It was a long and cloudy day. Elder Norton and I had been riding our bikes all day because we were so severally low on miles. After biking all day and getting caught in the rain while riding our bikes home we finally climbed in the car and headed off to our dinner appointment. The dinner appointment was pretty far away so I told Elder Norton to put in a CD, get comfortable and let’s enjoy the ride. We pulled out of the parking lot to our complex and headed south on 39th Ave. After a street light I saw a kid trying to cross the street. Since it was raining I decided to be nice and slow down to let him cross. I did slow down and eventually came to a complete stop. BAM!!! My head nearly hit the steering wheel and we are so fortunate that the air bags did not go off. A woman in a Ford F-150 hit us from behind. She too was slowing down to let the kid cross the street but with the slippery conditions she was unable to slow down in time and unfortunately hit us. We were stuck on 39th which is one of the main roads in Kenosha. We approached the woman to see if she was okay and she was! Then we moved the cars off the main road and onto a side road. I'm skipping the boring part of taking pictures and calling the cops and filling out the church paperwork with all the insurance info and stuff. We ended up having to cancel dinner and we were at the scene for over an hour in the rain. The bumper to the car doesn't look that bad surprisingly. It has a few cracks but nothing obvious. The trunk lid got shifted out of position by about half an inch. That night we checked the inside of the trunk to see if it still opened (which it does) inside the trunk is where the serious problem is. You can see that the metal frame behind the bumper is bent and the framework surrounding the trunk doesn't look in good shape. For my third time now I have to file a big report on the church website. This report did lead to a very cool miracle though. We ended up doing the report at a less active family's home. They fed us dinner and we got to meet the mother who I had not met before. So some good has come from this accident. It is still a hassle though. We are both feeling fine. Our necks were a little stiff the night of the crash but were feeling youthful and fine now.

Another fender bender -- #3. Glad we're safe.

With regards to the work; we set two baptismal dates this week. The first is with a 12 year old who turns 13 on May 2nd. His baptismal date is set for May 9th. He is part of a part member family. This kid is awesome; he is fluent in Spanish and has translated hundreds of pages from the English KJV Old Testament into Spanish. This kid is so smart, and he deserves the very best in life. He comes to church every week with his mom who was converted and baptized almost two years ago. The dad is going to be able to baptize him and it is so exciting for this family. The other baptismal date is a 20 year old who is married to a member. They have a kid together and another on the way. I tease him all the time that he is younger than me. He has been meeting with the missionaries for almost 10 years now but has somehow never gotten baptized. We have plans however to change that. We bought a poster today that we are going to write his baptismal date on and tape it above the family TV. This will remind him and the whole family (he lives with his in-laws) that he needs to be working on getting baptized. The work is fun, and bikes are great now that it’s warmer!

Yay! Spring.

Scripture for the week: Moroni 7:32

32 And by so doing, the Lord God prepareth the way that the residue of men may have faith in Christ, that the Holy Ghost may have place in their hearts, according to the power thereof; and after this manner bringeth to pass the Father, the covenants which he hath made unto the children of men.

Thanks for your prayers, transfers are next week, but I'm not going anywhere, teeheee. J

Elder Luymes