Phantom Lord

February 22, 2010



Pictures didn't work again? Hmm... Well I don't know, they work fine for everyone else. They shouldn't come up as DAT. files, try opening them with some program like the picture viewer or something. That's what I have to do to view pictures, I'll try something and send last week's and this week's in a separate e-mail (mom here-got the photos and put them on last week's post).

So, this week was good. The Dubon's came to church again and we're so close to getting them baptized, Giovani, the dad, says that our church makes perfect sense and he'd join, it's just that the Book of Mormon is the only thing in his way. He says the problem with it is you just have to accept it with faith and there's not much secular evidence for it. We're like, yeah, DUH. Of course the only to know if it's true is through faith and sincere prayer. We're getting close, we had interviews with President Hansen on Thursday and I was talking to him about this and he shared with me some great scriptures and using that we constructed the "Recipe for Revelation" lesson. Which we shared with the Dubon's on saturday along with the 2nd counselor. It was a good lesson and they came to church yesterday but had to leave early. And they said they'll pray so hopefully by the end of this week we'll have a date set up for them to get baptized.

Not much else is going on. Though the pictures I'm going to send could use some explanation. In the first one that shows me covered in mud was when one day we were "Tag-Teaming" with the english Elders out in Cut-N-Shoot. The car got stuck in some mud and we got out and pushed and the spinning tires got mud all over me. There's actually a really great video I took of that beforehand when we were driving down this dirt road with these huge deep puddles at 35 mph. After that night we decided that Elder Lopez is never driving again. One of these days when I have enough videos I'm going to send a DVD with all the videos I've taken on it and y'all can watch it.

The other pictures are of this huge dog that Elder Woodruff and I encountered. We think it's a Great Dane mixed with a Lab or something. We were scared to death of it when it loped up to us but after we stared him down we stared playing with him. A couple days later we passed by the same place (we were looking for a referral there) and we met the guy who owned the dog and he was telling us that it's only 7th months old! The dog's name is Pantera (panther) and he's supposed to get half as big as he already is. About 5 feet tall he said.

The other pictures are of the "Fellowship of the Woodlands" church. This big Non-Dom (Non-Denominational) church in the Woodlands. It's not too far from our church and we had some extra time before church last Sunday so we thought we'd drive by and see it. We had heard rumors about it. So these are a couple of pictures I snapped out the car window as we drove quickly through it. It was huge, about the size of a college with chapels and lecture halls and gyms and all sorts of crazy stuff. Lots of people around in our area go to it.

Well not much else to report things are the same as they've always been. I'll try to send those other pictures off in another e-mail. Peace out.

Elder Rice