August 31st

Hello,
It has been another great week in Chesterfield!! Lots and lots of tracting this week. The weather has been wonderful so we thought that we'd take advantage of it and find some new people to teach. We didn't find any new investigators from it, but we were able to teach a lot of door step lessons.

So this last Saturday was Adria's baptism in St. Peters. I wasn't able to go. Elder Nelson, who is also the DL, discouraged it and so I decided not to go. I called Elder Reese today to see how it went and he said that she was glowing afterwards. It was a long path for her but she finally made it!!

So we had an appointment with some investigators that Elder Nelson started teaching before i was here, and because of schedules and vacations i we didn't have the opportunity to teach them until this last week. I mentioned that this area is for the most part really rich, well this family exceeds everything i had seen so far. Elder Nelson warned me about it but when we pulled up to their "house" i was shocked. This thing was a gigantic castle. They had like two, four car garages with nice cars in each and our house could easily fit inside their kitchen. It was almost sick how big this thing was. With that in mind, he is in real estate (which isn't doing very well right now) and so they are having to move. The sad part is is that they'll be no longer in our ward. They are really solid too. The dad is a Jew and the mom is Christian, the daughter was kinda brought up in both faiths, and the son goes to a private christian school.

We also got one of our investigators, Vita, who the missionaries have been working with for a long time to come to church. She owns a Snow Cone stand and every time we go see her see gives us snow cones. They are the best snow cones I've ever had. She loves church and even came to a ward activity. We are planning on setting a date with her this coming week.

We have to push back Colleen's date because she hasn't been to church yet. But that's ok because we want to teach her son too and baptize them at the same time. We're meeting with her tonight and figure it all out.

We are still planning on Mitchell's baptism coming up. His mom is still against it, but we know that God is a God of miracles and have faith that it'll happen. If not, we know that Gods will be done.

Last Sunday we started teaching a way sweet new investigator. one of the young men, Sumner, referred his friend Natalie to us. We taught her the Restoration and she really felt the Spirit. We found out that she had been reading every night but when she told her mom that she wanted to meet with us again, she flat out refused. When she told this to Sumner she said that her mom can stop her from meeting with us but she cant stop her from reading the Book of Mormon!!!! We just felt so good after hearing that.

Mae is doing really well too. She is the girlfriend of one of the recent converts. We are trying to meet with her mom before we set a date. We don't see any real road blocks with her though. Her mom has alot of member friends and has even been to a baptism before.

Its just so great teaching the youth because their hearts aren't hardened yet like their parents and they are much more receptive to the Spirit.

Mom-yeah, obedience is a big thing out here. Most of the missionaries are really good but there are always a few who aren't. Pres. Turley is big on exact obedience and has given many trainings on it. Its true what Elder Nord said. You don't get the blessings otherwise. Thanks for the card. I didn't mean to sound so down in my last letter, the work has been going great, just a little slower week last week. The card was good none the less.

Dad- I still look for some of my things where they'd be in St Peters but other than that, i'm pretty well settled in. I still don't know the area very well yet but Elder Nelson has a GPS so we don't really get lost (every once in a while i'll take a wrong turn still ...but that'll always happen, just ask Rachel, ha-ha). Our members have a piano too, so i play every once in a while and sometimes Elder Nelson makes me play at District Meetings. There are only four of us in our district, the two of us and two sister missionaries. So for our meetings the Zone leaders have to come otherwise it'd pretty much be a double date, not good on a mission, ha-ha.

Well the beach trip sounds like it was a lot of fun. Don't spare any trouble having fun while I'm gone :)

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. We were tracting the other day and while we walk from house to house we always wave at people driving by. There was this old lady that we waved to that just got this sour face and violently shook a thumbs down at us. Elder Nelson and I couldn't stop laughing. It was too much.

The weather looks like it'll be in the 70's this next week, so its pretty much Zion out here......well almost.

Love you lots,
Elder Egan