Email Letter - 15 January 2014

Hey everybody,

I’m having a great time in San Fran. The last week has been great and also a little crazy. I think I’m going to start with the crazy. Last Thursday there was a "Welga" in San Fran, that’s when all the local stores close down and go on strike cause they don’t want to pay taxes or something like that, but anyways basically the whole city is closed for a day or so. Because of that people go a little crazy and some people use this as an excuse to riot and a bunch of "Tigures" (a Dominican word) there’s no word for it in English but basically just bad people ride there motorcycles up and down the main rode shooting there guns at whoever they see and attacking people, so really needless to say we didn’t go out that day. Luckily it wasn’t to bad and it only lasted 1 day and we were able to go out the next day and be ok.

The great part of this week is that we have 6 people with really firm baptismal dates. The first is a family that we’ve been working with a lot, the are planning to get married on February 7th and the baptized on the 8th, which happens to be elder Grover's last weekend so he’s pretty happy to be going out with a bang. And the other is this lady and her kids, she is a super awesome lady and we really should’ve had a date with her before this week cause she is progressing like crazy. Her baptism is set for the first of March so I’m super excited and Elder Grover is disappointed that he wont be here for it. I’m going to dunk her so hard ha-ha. Cant wait, this area is exploding with amazing investigators. Well that’s it for this week I love you all and ill write again next week.

-Elder King

Email Letter - 07 January 2014

Hey everybody! I’m having a blast right now. We had transfers last week but because I’m being trained nothing really changed for me, really just a few of the missionaries in my zone but that’s not a big deal cause I don’t see them a ton. Last week during transfers everyone that didn’t get transferred got together and we played volleyball at one of the churches, which was a ton of fun. Afterwards on the way home a couple of guys tried to mug us but it was really just a sad attempt because they were super drunk. Its actually really funny cause after they realized that we weren’t going to back down and give them our stuff they tried to play it off like a joke, poor guys. Ha-ha.

Anyways, right now we´re working with a lot of families and they’re all doing really well and making a lot of progress. One family in particular is doing amazing and our goal is to try and get them baptized before Elder Grove goes home, so we´re going to be focusing on them a lot. Hopefully everything will come together.

Well I love you all and I pray for you always.

-Elder King