07/05/15 Sweet letter from AJ to BJ

Dad and Mom love each other so much!

07/05/15

Hey bro,

Hope you are having a great week! We just had a great 4th of July and I got to spend some time with the family. Holly and I spent some time at the lake, I went and barbequed with friends outside of stadium of fire and got to hear Journey and then see the fireworks. It was an awesome 4th of July. I'll attach a picture or two

Taking a break

This week I had two cool experiences I want to tell you about. So first, Dad, Mom, Katie, Holly and I went on a really hard hike to this awesome waterfall. Anyway about halfway through it dad was dying and he wasn't sure if he was going to make it. I ran ahead to the top and then came back down to see if I could help. He was having a hard time but I told mom if she wanted to she could go ahead to the top and check out the waterfall and that I would hang back with dad. Mom didn't want to leave dad though. I asked her several times if she wanted to go ahead but she really didn't want to leave. I realized that even though mom wanted to see the waterfall she didn't want leave dad and wanted to do it together with him. Anyway long story short we all made it up together and I remember getting a distinct thought that, Wow my mom really loves her husband. Awesome.

Hiking up the mountain to the falls

Another awesome experience this week is I heard one of my converts was able to baptized his wife(whom I had been able to teach and who had previously been indifferent about the teachings). My convert, Sadri Salarzon, was is a grandpa of this big family who all lived on the same block. He was an awesome and a basically golden investigator. He was a farmer and also lived pretty far from the church. Anyhow a while after I went home I heard he was having trouble making it to church always because of the cost of bus fare and because of being busy with farming. So i was really worried about him, and this week I heard that he has been doing well and that actually he was able to baptize his wife which is awesome!

Love you man, AJ

Enjoying the waterfall after long hike!

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