May 18th

Hello My Dear Family & Amigos!, I hope your past week has been amazing and Grrrreat! Thank you for all the letters and packages! lol, I loved hearing from all the family on the phone call and I loved reading what you all had to say after it too ;) haha.

So I haven't been up to too much ... just missionary work - if you could imagine that ;) lol, sorry I am just in a funny mood today. This week went by really fast (which is good - because that means we probably taught a lot.)Last Monday the Citrus Hills ward had a F.H.E.-in-the-Park & it was really fun... the whole idea of it is for the families in the ward to bring non-members so they can have fun eating and playing games. [which of course we went to ... non-members + missionaries = you know what!!] This is actually where the Judds and Brett Moore was first brought to and then they got to know the missionaries :) I really love the ward, everyone is soo nice... haha, and (you'll get a laugh out of this one) out of the corner of my eye I saw some of the ward ladies playing a card game with *purple cards... so my heart jumped and I ran over and sure enough.. they were playing 5 CROWNS!! haha, so I watched them play it (i can't play face-cards so that is out :'( but it was still fun).The Judds are doing good! They are committed to preparing for baptism on THIS Saturday May 23, 2009!! We decided to fast with them to have the Spirit help them throughout the week and for them to get more of a surer answer. We are going over there tonight and want to go over there at least once everyday for the next week so we can check up on them! So Darla Sauceda was one of our investigators... but her mom didn't want us to teach her anymore because we were scary mormons!! ya know lol. But anyways, she has a bad back and no furniture, so we have been looking for free furniture out on the sides of the road for like a month to give to her... and hopefully get back into her life to teach her :) .... then this week at one of our appointments we went in and was talking to this lady and sat down on this couch in her garage.. and @ the end of the appointment she turned and looked at us then had this weird look on her face, and said i don't know why I'm asking, but do you want to have this couch? We were like " .... Chaahhh, YA" It is so awesome how the Spirit works! So we got the couch with the Millers help and took it over to Darla and she said the we answered her prayers!!! AWESOME!!!The Millers were very fun! It was so fun to hear the I am "related" to someone out here! (thanks to you Mary) lol.Thank you for all of your prayers I love and feel them in my behalf and in the lives of my investigators.Stay safe and Love you all so much!Love Elder McBride