Dear Family,
 
It has been a very good week. We set a Baptismal Date with one of our investigators. We also committed her 10 year old son to be baptized at the same time that she is. It was pretty exciting. She still didn't come to church though. She hasn't been yet. There's some underlying concern about it that we just haven't been able to uncover yet. I hope we can soon. But we're very excited for her.
 
Our other investigator, Rob, is progressing...... extremely slowly. We committed him to pray to know if Jesus Christ is his Savior. He agreed. He did not receive an answer to that prayer, but he did receive a confirmation that the Book of Mormon is true. He already believed that, so he was kind of puzzled that God would reveal that to him.
 
Yesterday we found a really awesome lady named Kristine. She's Methodist, but she's never heard of Joseph Smith or the Book of Mormon. When we told her about it she practically demanded that Elder Rowley give he the copy he had on hand(which, of course, he gladly did). We are hoping for good things to happen with her.
 
Right now I am doing the "Book of Mormon Challenge" as some call it. It's one of the study ideas at the end of Chapter 5 in Preach My Gospel. I am going through a fresh copy of the Book of Mormon and highlighting all the references to Christ, as well as all of His words and His attributes. I am thoroughly enjoying it. I'm feeling the Spirit bear powerful testimony to me of Jesus Christ and of the Book of Mormon.
 
Well, Mom, I don't talk TOO much about our investigators because we hardly have any. There's just not much to report on right now. A lot of tracting and stuff like that. The area is starting to grow, though. So there will be cooler experiences to come, I am sure. Also, we are discouraged from writing about people's personal lives. There are some things that I just don't feel comfortable telling the world about with the people we are working with.
 
Well, I hope you all have a good week, and I hope that you have a Happy Birthday, Mom! :)
 
Love,
Elder Bracken