6-14-10 Progress

Friends and Family,

We had a decent week this week.I wrote last week about our goal to find new investigators. We did not wuite reach that goal, but because of our dilligence, We had some good success. We should also have some more new investigators this coming week.

We taught Jerry Summers on Thursday. He is a non-member father of a less-active member family. He has been meeting with missionaries for quite a while. We heard that because the land lord was being dumb, they were going to be moving into Omaha at the end of July. We would really like to get him baptized before then. We focused a lot on church this time. He said that he likes to come and knew the good things that would come for him and his family if he did it, but that his wife makes it hard for him. I wasn't sure if that was the truth, or if it was just an excuse he was using. Before we left, his wife called. He put it on speaker phone for some reason. She seemed upset that he was not at his son's baseball game (which is where she was) that had started 30 minutes earlier. He said he would be there soon and then expressed his desire to come to church that week. She said something to the effect of "Okay fine if you want to leave me all alone to find a new home for your kids. That's not that important. Just go to church and leave the rest of us." I was startled and devastated at what she had said. Jerry then told us that she used to get on him for coming to church, and now he has to drag her there. It really saddens me that she has lost the desire to do the will of God. I hope she can find that again, and that the family can find the joy that living the gospel brings.

We have also been meeting with Lisa Tidwell. She has also met with missionaries for a while. She has had a baptismal date several times, but not made any of them. We talked to her about setting another date as a goal. She said she would like to and then chose a date, July 10, which was the same one we had felt earlier. It was a neat experience and we feel like she can make this date. We are excited.

I went on exchanges with the Zone Leaders down in Council Bluffs. It was nice to be in a different area for a while. I learned good things and came back motivated.

I love you all,

-Elder Burnham