Email from May 3, 2011

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!

The big 6-4.. Now just if that was your height!! I bet you are already feeling wiser as well.. I was going to get a card out to you, but I forgot last p-day, now it is to late. But I was thinking about you! I heard a rumor that once you hit 60, you actually don't get wiser anymore, you just hit your peak at 60. right?? hmmm

Well 6 months from today, I will be walking off the plane. So you better start getting the party planned. Haha just kidding. I still got plenty of time to do work up here. I am loving it in BC. It is so sweet. Lots of driving. Every day. But we are still working hard.

Joyce, one of our investigators called us on Wednesday, and told us she isn't interested in meeting with us any more. It was kind of frustrating, because we had a lesson with her just a couple nights before, and everything she is looking for, is the church. She was asking Golden questions and we were able to help her answer those and she was feeling good about everything. We think that she possibly told her church that she was meeting with us, and just anti came from that. That was annoying.. But hopefully we were able to water that seed a little bit more for the future contacts...

We had another lesson with Jimmy this week. It was a good lesson but very frustrating. His friend sat in on the lesson and she is super anti. She didn't say much while we were there, but you could just feel the tension that she had for the church. He still didn't commit to church. But he will read. We are going to give him a call today, but he has family in that will be pretty difficult to meet with him. We do have a promising referral for this Saturday. We are really excited to teach them .They are just a young couple. But we have heard nothing but good things about them.. I am excited for it. I will let you know how it goes. We were supposed to teach them before I got here, but unfortunately the Elders crashed the car on the way to the lesson. So lame... But now we are able to press on.

We had zone conference yesterday, it was really good. We focused a lot on using and applying the tools that we have to plan effectively. The mission has every thing it needs to reach the goals that we have set. Now it is just applying what we know and having the faith to do so..

Well since I am going to talk to you in a few days, I am going to get going. but I love all of you and miss you a ton. Can't wait to talk to you all..

Love Elder Dastrup