Hi Mom,

  How are you??? I'm not sure when I will be sending my stuff home but I will let you know. I haven't received my flight info yet. I'm glad that you got it. You sound like you were busy all week. I remembered that it was the two year anniversary of Dad's death. Sister Allen got me a little thing to let me know that she was thinking of me. She is so sweet!!! My companion was really sweet too! How is the stuff with Jack's stuff going? Did you get it all figured out?

  This week has been kind of a roller coaster. One of our investigators told us that she didn't want to meet anymore but she is still meeting with us. She found out some medical news that threw her for a loop and so she got really upset. We met with her with some members that were able to help her a lot. They were able to relate to her on a level that Sister Tarawhiti and I weren't able to. She is still having a hard time but she came to all three hours of church yesterday. She is doing pretty good. We started teaching an older couple this week. They have learned from missionaries before. Their daughter is a member down in Florida and she is so excited that we are meeting with her parents. They had a lot of questions for us. Their names are Wally and Hope. Hope hasn't really opened up to any missionaries and she did to us. Her daughter was so surprised. We sang her some songs and she loved it! Wally loves the church and feels something when he comes to church. They are amazing!!! There was a less active this week that is dealing with the loss of her step dad. She told us that she is angry at God. I was able to relate to her and testify of the power that can come when we rely on the Lord in those situations. She told us we could come back this week. Hopefully we can continue to help her.

  We do go tracting. We try to contact less actives, former investigators, and potential investigators and then we knock on the doors around their houses. We actually met a really nice man this week when we were tracting. He was telling us about why he thought it was important to go to church. He likes church that requires a lot of participation and so we invited him to come to our church. He said that he might try it out. We talked with him for about 20 minutes. He was awesome!!!

  This week in my studies I was studying the Word of Wisdom for one of our investigators. I love how the Word of Wisdom is for us spiritually and physically. There is a quote in Preach My Gospel that I love...it says, "The Spirit does not get our attention by shouting or shaking us with a heavy hand.Rather it whispers. It caresses so gently that if we are preoccupied we may not feel it at all. (No wonder that the Word of Wisdom was revealed to us, for how could the drunkard or the addict feel such a voice?)" That is from Boyd K. Packer. It is so true!! We have to be listening if we want to really grasp what the Spirit is telling us. I love how the Spirit works!!! I love you! Have a great week!!!!

  Love,

    Sister Griffin