I Survived!!

It has been another amazing week in Chesterfield!! Transfers are on wed. and the phone calls were going out last night. We jumped every time that the phone made a noise, but the call never came. We are really excited to serve another transfer together.

So i must tell you about the wonderful food that St. Louis has. Since I've been here Elder Nelson has been going on about this dish that a family in the ward makes. I was skeptical until I had some. Its Chicken 'n Waffles and is literally what it says. You put a waffle down with some fried chicken on top of it and then you pour gravy and maple syrup on top of that. Its actually really good. Then a St. Louis dessert is even healthier, Gooey Butter Cake. All it is is a lot of butter and sugar made into a cake, and if your lucky they'll put chocolate chips in it. Its definitely an acquired taste, it was for me anyway, but it is delicious nonetheless.

Another thing that is big around here is Tropical Sno. It's a snow cone place that is really good. I'm pretty sure that they're back home too, you should look and see. anyway, one of our investigators, Vita, owns it down here and so we get free snow cones every time we go and visit her. That snow cone shack has been our best proselyting activity. Besides Vita, we found another lady that works for Vita that we're going to start teaching, Lisa, and another worker that is a potential investigator, Jessica. Lisa we found tracting but Jessica we see all the time when we get our snow cones. We both had the feeling that we needed to share the gospel with her but then she was never working when we went there. Then finally one night we went and not only was she working, but there weren't any other customers. Neither of us were sure how to bring up the gospel and were praying really hard so we could do it in a way that it needed to be done. But as we were just talking with her, she asked us what we do!! We were more than glad to answer her question and got her address and stuff. Lets just hope her parents are OK with it (She's a Senior this year and you know of our luck with teaching youth, haha). The Lords hand is definitely in this work.

Yesterday we took Vita on a quick tour of the font after sacrament (she couldn't stay the whole time because of work). She said that she would keep thinking about baptism. We're pretty sure that she'll go down this next transfer and are really excited for her.

We also met with Chris yesterday. He is so awesome. The lesson previous we talked about prayer and how we can make our prayers more meaningful. We told him that this is something that we were going to work on with him. So yesterday after we asked him how his prayers were, he followed up with us on how our prayers were!!! What investigator follows up with the missionaries?!? There are going to be choirs of angels singing at his baptism.

We've been tracting a lot these past few weeks and have found a lot of potential people to teach. We have high hope for a lot of them and are looking forward to once again having a large teaching pool.

The weather has been wonderful. Cool with a little rain. However, this week its supposed to rain all week, but we'll see. We may not be dry again till next monday, I'll let you know.
We got our new car last week. Its our baby now. I was going to send some pics today of it and a bunch of other things but I just realized that I left my camera in the car, too bad. They'll come next week. I also parted my hair last week. I never thought it would be possible but i did it!! My head was about 5 lbs. heavier because of all the gel but it worked. There are some pics of that too.

We had this really great experience with a man named Ed. He is some kind of born again preacher but not really a preacher or born again. hopefully that only confused you a little. Anyway we are talking with him and teaching him a little, then he would talk and tell us his ideas. He is an old southern guy that is really funny. at the end, he asked "do you guys hug in your church?" and we're like "of course we hug!!" and he gives us this big hug, and then asks if he can bless us. He grabs our hands and blesses us thanking the Lord for us and all that we do. It was awesome and really funny at the same time!!!! At times during our visit, Elder Nelson and I were just cracking up because of the things that he was saying. We meet all kinds of people and I love it!!

Mom-we eat out every once in a while but not too often, and no there isn't a Panda around here. actually there isn't much chinese around here at all. We keep our bikes. If we were ever to use up all of our miles before the month was over we would have to ride. We're pretty good about staying under though and haven't had to use them yet. Well if you are already sending some stuff out, silk ties are really bad in the rain and that's almost all I have. If you see any non-silk those would be nice. I also have a lot of dark ties. so if you see any bright non-silk ties that would be even better :)

Dad-its fun reading about the pioneers and what they went through especially when they are our family. I would like to know what happened after the Major and Mary Ann divorced. How did we end up in Idaho? Also I was reading and it said that the Major was in St. Louis a little bit getting supplies and what not. Do you know any more about that?

Josh-keep that melloline on track for me and don't let them slack off. When do you start driving? its weird thinking that its almost time for that.

Keep strong in the faith and the Lord will be on your right hand and on your left. He will go before your face and send His angels round about you.

Love
Elder Egan

P.S. can you believe I've been out for almost 5 months!!!!!! Crazy how fast time flies.