Investigators and Friends

Its been another great week in Oakville!

We had an amazing day at church yesterday! Well, not so much us, but the other elders. They had eight of their investigators at church, then we had one, and there were a few people that brought friends. in total we had 13 nonmembers at chruch and all but two stayed all three hours. We had a really good appointment with Margret, the older lady we've been teaching, on Sat. Our appointments are usually Friday but she called up Friday morning to reschedule for Sat. We are pretty sure we have found out why she hasn't been baptized yet. She's been telling us all along we just werent "listening" with our spiritual ears. She has had this tradition in her family that they associate themselves with a church, live it and all that fun stuff, but never join it. We finally realized (she more so told us) that she didn't want to "belong" to anything but Christ, not a church. Then it finally clicked for me and we talked about how all the church is is His fold here on this earth. Then when she came to church on Sunday, there was a difference about her. We are planning on setting a baptismal date this coming Friday, because NOW she is ready!!!!!!! We have also had some great lessons with a couple that we found a long time ago, Steve and Shelly. They didn't make it to church so we went by Sunday night and caught him heading to the gym, so we just taught her about prayer. She was so appreciative about it, and that she can now talk to her Father. It felt great. We have another appointment with them on Tues and we want to bring them to the church so they will be comfortable coming.

Transfer calls are this week. I have no idea what is going to happen to me. It could go any which way. I'm actually pretty nervous about this one, I'd love to stay one more, but it isn't about what I want. There are a lot of possibilities this transfer so we'll see.

One of the Elders tore his ACL in his knee this past P-day. He was really bummed out because he goes home this next week and can't work very hard to finish his mission. He stays in the office with one of the Assistants to the Pres. til five, then goes out to "work" as much as he can in his area from five on.

Mom- Yes we got the package, the cookies are great. They aren't helping me to stay in shape though (but that's alright).
Dad-I'm looking forward to conference too! Elder Westfall prefers to watch it at the church, and I like to watch it in the members homes, so we'll probably do both. It will be interesting to see what the focus is this time. I've started a study on Forgiveness, maybe I will be able to get some insights from some of the talks.

Love,
Elder Egan