October 14

Dear Family, it has been such an eventful week. I don't even know where to start. We have a baptism this coming Friday with Preston. He is so prepared. He begged his mother to allow him to go to general conference on Sunday even though she was sick. His brother dropped him off and we kept an eye on him during the session so his brother could pick him up afterward. He is pretty excited. We are having his interview with the branch president tomorrow. Volleyball went so great on friday. The two men from Pakistan (Zakir and Reza) came and brought their volleyball because ours is flat. The week before, I gave a Farsi book of Mormon to Zakir. I asked him about it last friday and he had read 20 pages (about to 2 nephi). I was astonished and I think he will start having some questions soon. They are both Christian. One last cool fact is that a week ago, we built a sand sculpture of the Brigham city temple at the community gardens. well, I guess that people liked it so much, they left it and it's been up over a week. I wonder if we will be able to get anyone to investigate because of it. People seem it like it though. We have been making a big influence on the library as well. They have commissioned me to do a poster sized charcoal drawing of the SLC temple to put up and they have changed all the backgrounds on the computers to temples. How is that for making an influence. We had such an incredible experience yesterday. We got a call from a woman who we hadn't even heard of (It turned out that it was because she was on the branch list but the name said "DO NOT VISIT" on it so we never bothered). Well the call was to ask us to teach her husband who isn't a member and consequently is the reason that we weren't allowed to visit. Apparently 10 years ago he told his wife that in 10 years he would take the discussions. Yesterday was our first discussion and we taught the restoration. It was so incredible the spirit we were able to feel during the lesson. He works a lot, but hopefully we will be able to see him progress in Book of Mormon reading and in the gospel. General Conference was so amazing this past weekend. I hope you were all able to get a lot out of it last week. Love you all, Elder Joshua Butts