I got a LETTER!!!!

As most of you know, my little brother Blaine is on a mission in Canada, and for the past two months I have been getting one or two line weekly e-mails. (And just FYI, It is not just me, but my family as well) So you can imagine my surprise and delight when I opened my email from him this morning and found a paragraph... a WHOLE PARAGRAPH! It made my week. So that you all can enjoy it as well, here it is....

Hey there,

       so this last week was a lot of fun! we had the REAL district meeting on thursday then on friday we had our weekly planing thing in the morning. during our weekly planing ED called and asked if we could meet today(friday), so right after our planning we went and had a lesson with him at the church. his whole family has been on his case about meeting with us and telling him all the false crap about the church. they told him that as soon as he is baptized we make him sign a form that the church will get 20% of every thing he owns no matter what, if he loses his job, he goes bankrupt. so he really wanted to see this form that he has to sign. the only thing that he has to sign is the baptismal record. so we didn't have a baptismal record with us so after the lesson he fallowed us to our apartment and we showed him what the record looked like and what he would have to sign and the baptismal interview questions. if we had a blank  one them we would have filled it out right then and dunked him in the puddle out back! ha ha  the lesson went really good and at the end he said that he would be baptized at the end of the summer. that was a little depressing because we were going to challenge him to the 19th of april. then I talked about how when peter walked on the water and he could do it for a little bit then he saw the wind and the waves and started to fear and than that is when he started to sink. so if you know that you want to be baptized then make that distance that you have to walk shorter so you don’t have to fend off the wind and the waves for 6 months all by your self. and then we committed him to the 19th. he said that he was worried that we went telling him something because every thing just seemed to perfect, we take care of each other and we support families and we just seem to be on the right track for every thing. i just had to smile. we just told him that it wasn't our church that man made up it is Christ's church and that christ is all ways on track. he said that now the only thing he had to do was to Pray about it. so we have been praying like crazy that he will get the answer he is looking for.

    i hope every ones week goes great 

 

   LOVE BLAINE