100 Pages (August 2nd email)

Greetings from Brea. I hope everyone is doing well. This week was pretty good for me, though not easy. The work is a little slow in this area, but we did have some miracles this week. Wednesday we got a call from an older member who said he met someone in the park that is really interested. We met the next day and taught him and he is really excited about what we are teaching him. He's in his 60s probably and he recently lost everything he had (he was once a millionaire) so now he lives in his car and has all day to read the Book of Mormon. We met with him again Saturday and he'd already read 100 pages. We have another lesson tomorrow. His name is G W.

We also met a girl that's friends with a member in the ward. She came over to eat dinner with us so we taught her about the Book of Mormon and she seems accepting. Her name is A and she's 14 years old. I hope she becomes a good investigator too.

We taught a guy that was found tracting by previous missionaries this week. His name is D and he's a professional photographer. He was super nice, but I don't think he took us completely seriously. We tried to get him to pray about the Book of Mormon but he wouldn't. Maybe he'll read it and pray on his own, so at least we planted a seed.

The other investigator we have is Mi. She has four children--two of whom are over 8. She's good friends with Sister J, the ward mission leader's wife, so she's been progressing pretty well. We had a good lesson this week about the Restoration and she was interested, but is coming along a little slower than we'd like. We hope she starts reading the BOM now, but the hardest part is getting her to church because she wants to come on her own desire, not because she was invited and people are waiting for her. Keep her in your prayers. We had A at church, but G didn't come because he couldn't get a hold of his nice clothes and was already embarrassed by his missing teeth.

Anyway, besides that we just taught a few less actives and a recent convert and spent lots of time looking for people to teach. We did have good dinner appointments though--especially last night with the Bishop. His brother was visiting from Idaho and he's a bishop too so we had two bishop Lords there--it was funny. Love you as much as all the seizures I'm going to have from this flashy computer monitor.

Elder Curtis