This Sunday was amazing! We had 5 Investigators at church this Sunday. The whole Perez family and Greg to be more specific. The Perez family loved church. But of course what's not to love. It was a fantastic day. When church was over we went back to the apartment after eating some cupcakes that were labeled "Eat Us" in the Church Fridge. We had lunch and chilled for an hour. We then crammed whatever studying we could before our dinner appointment with the Hurdsman's, a super solid family and committed them to find opportunities to serve. We then went to Bro. Matlock's and kind of said good bye for now and taught him about the importance of prayer. Then we went straight to Martel's place and that is where the magic happened.
We had a great lesson with Martel. We taught the plan of salvation and he was blown away. He loved it! He really wants to go to the celestial kingdom so he can live with God and he wants his family there with him. He committed to continue reading the BoM and ask in prayer for truth. He also is going to share what he learned with the people he cares most about. He is going to make a great Mormon some day! Oh and we also got follow up appointments with him every Tuesday and Saturday weekly from here on! Amazing! It is times like this when there is no doubt that the Lord is working through us as his disciples!
The next Monday was very busy. Last Saturday we finished translating our paper Area Book, records of anyone taught by the missionaries, so we went out proselyting an hour earlier. It was weird but awesome at the same time. We stopped by a potential investigator's homes not knowing what might come of it and we ended up getting invited in and teaching both the woman we were going to see and her father. For the first 30 minutes we were there she and her father were almost bible bashing each other then they remembered we were there and asked what we believed.
We taught them about the restoration and the Book of Mormon and they really liked it and didn't really argue after that. That's what the Gospel can do to people! We ended up getting a return appointment for this upcoming Saturday. It was a great lesson then we had a pass off lesson with some missionaries from the Carlsbad mission!
It is unusual for missionaries to do pass off lessons with an investigator after they have moved into an area with new missionaries when it is far away. It is even more unusual for pass off lessons to occur between separate mission boundaries! But I suppose Annie is just that special.Annie is solid. She wants to get baptized yesterday! But in our mission or really any mission we need to teach all of the lesson material required for anyone to get baptized. She has a baptism set for September 5th. I hope we can cover the material fast enough for her to get baptized on her assigned date. But this is a good problem to have. It is way better than having no one to teach. Count your blessings! 
~ Elder Josh Alger
A super cool bike
Pics of the apartment
Pics from the hike today
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