Devon's First Email from Boise, ID - week 3

Thanks for your words of advice. P days are actually on Monday.  It was on the schedule to write home on my first day in the field but Elder Bodine and I were to busy proselyting and never had the opportunity to email home.  He apologized because he know how much families want to hear from their missionaries.  So far dinners have been delicious because they have been 4th of july related.  Hamburgers, hot dogs, CORN on the COB, and BARBECUE CHICKEN no problem eating here. It like the food at home.  Hopefully food is like this every day!!  However, One day I had to eat taco salad. I prayed so hard that that the Lord would help me through it and he did. It wasn't bad but I didn't like it. Maybe I just need to try more of it.  

Elder Bodine and I are always preaching, teaching, walking, studying, or reading. Our motto is exact obedience and live and do as Christ would.  We are blessed to be constantly busy in the lords work because we live our motto.  We are so busy that it causes me to fall behind in my Small and Large plates. Our eagerness to serve and obey the lord has led him to bless us with two people that have baptismal dates!  We also have found two new investigators that we will teach and hopefully they become progressive investigators.  I popped the question to be baptized to a progressing investigator. She said that she wants to be baptized in the right church and to have the perfect knowledge that she is going the right church.  I have the impression that she will be baptized because she feels the Holy Ghost strongly in her life when we teach her and when she reads the Book of Mormon. So far she is in 2 Nephi, but she wants to read the entire Book of Mormon before she is baptized.  When Elder Bodine and I taught her she would write notes about scriptures that touched her and what she felt and heard when we were teaching her.  The note taking made me nervous but the spirit comforted me. We brought 3 investigators to church and they liked it; two of them have baptismal dates. The ward that I am serving in is struggling, its in the Boise south zone.  It has 350 people but only 50 showed up last sunday! However, they could be some that are visiting family.  I was told that over half of the ward is inactive. I believe that  Elder Bodine and I can bring back some of the lords lost sheep.

I feel the spirit constantly and I don't feel like I am struggling yet. For the first three day in the field I had the mind bomb or blown feeling all day. There was just too much information being crammed in my head like street names (vista,columbus,manor,Leihi,Tanee,Koteni,Leam,and others), people names(President Winder and wife,President Christenson and wife, Zone leaders Poplion and Merrill, District leader McAdo,Elders [Bodine, bro, xmopanpacty, medcom, garside, lee, hook, etc.] investigators, RCLA, members names, Bishop Swanson, ward mission leader, sisters, and etc.), phone number (###-###-#### I know it but I can't tell you it), and a whole mountain full of information. luckily, I only serve one ward.  It was like a sensory overload for three days, but the Lord helped me overcome it.  

If you have questions let me know.

Love, 

Elder Devon Lowe