Mom, Dad, and Family,
Not a single person came to our door for trick-or-treating! ...I'm actually not all that offended because we didn't really have much candy to give them anyway. But we had a lot of Mormon.org cards! Pump the kids full of propaganda! No it wasn't a big deal. We had a curfew of 6pm on Halloween, which is understandable, the pagans wake up and move about at 5pm, so that's about when proselyting got ineffective. But along with the 6pm curfew deal, if we had a ward activity that was indoors, we could go to that before we went home. So we didn't get back until about 8pm (the pagans were all over the place at that time. I had to fight a couple off with a stick.)
So...is Robyn alive? You kind of didn't give very many details... You kind of just said "Robyn was carving a pumpkin and stabbed herself. We took her to the ER. Made for an exciting day." I assume she is alive. Just kidding, I know she's fine. It just kind of scared me to read.
Sounds like everybody had a good week (aside from the stabbing...) I did too! We found a new investigator. Well, okay. We didn't find him, he kind just showed up. He's from Saint Luscia in the Caribbean, and he's here trying to get his citizenship and work. Well fortunately he's staying with the Bray family who met him on vacation in Saint Luscia a few years ago. They run a daycare and take all their daycare kids to church on Sundays, so they're into the whole missionary thing. He's super nice and we had our first lesson with him at the Bray home (after an awesome rib dinner. The Brays...they know where it's at.) And he committed to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it.
We also had a lesson with Richard. He's doing so awesome. Elder Mitchell and I feel super humbled to teach him. He works a lot of hours and his health isn't so good. His work is super hard on his body too. I remember one lesson Elder Depew and I had with him, he had just gotten done working 8 days in a row. He was tired and exhausted and frankly, pretty beat up. We found out this week about how he made it to church. He had the day off anyway, but it kind of threw off his schedule. That Sunday off was the first day in 9 that he didn't have work. He was talking to his manager to see about getting his normal days off again and she said "I've got a way I can do it. You won't have to work the 9 days in a row, but you'll have to work the weekend." He turned to her and said "No. I promised I would go to church. I'll work the 9 days." I don't know how it happened, but when we met with him, he told us that he ended up having 5 days off in a row. He wasn't tired. He wasn't worn out. And he was happier. One of the days off he got ended up actually being paid too. So we looked at his schedule to see if there was a Sunday in the near future he could come to church again. There wasn't. He turned to us and said "Maybe I could switch one of the younger guys at work on a Sunday, and I could take their Monday so they could go to school or something like that." We looked at his schedule and he paused a little bit and then said "It would mean I'd have to work 9 days in a row again." But then he smiled and said "But it'd be worth it don't you think?" Mom, I don't know how he's going to make it, or how he's doing physically, but he's so much stronger spiritually. Please keep him in your prayers.
There have been some downhills this week too. We haven't been able to get in touch with Robert or Paula all week long and we're pretty worried about them. Wayne, Nancy, and Marie, officially dropped us. And we've talked to but haven't been able to meet with Justin in over a week. Please pray for the people in Upland and for the Spirit to be with them. I've been thinking a lot about prayer. If you get the chance, read the prayer section in true to the faith.
I love you all. Please take care. Thank you for your prayers and words of encouragement. I love the Spirit I feel when I read all of your letters. Don't forget to read your scriptures. Don't forget to pray. Don't forget to rely on the Lord. And don't forget to look Up.
ILYMTLI,
Elder Russell
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