"A Roller Coaster "

Well hello there family! man it sure looks like you guys are having a good time up there in bear lake! man i have to say i sure miss that! but i'm glad you guys are doing good and having fun! it's always good to have some fun sometimes! Karter you look like a stud bro! i loved the videos you sent me haha you are the man! keep up the good work bro! mom you look as good as ever and i was happy to see your smiling face! haha well now i know that i only have to miss one more haha. well to tell you about are week...it was some good one that sent us for a ride. we had some great success and we worked hard this week!! and it showed, the lord blessed us alot this week and we had a good number of LA's at church. so to tell you some things that happened. well we had this investigator and she was really progressing and we extended a baptismal commitment and she accecpted and we were really excited and so when we went over to teach here again we found out that we can't teach her anymore cause some crazy stuff went down with her family and so it's a no go. my heart like broke in half when i found that out but there's a purpose for everything. then our other investigator accepted the baptismal commitment also and we had a great lesson with him and we were so excited and turns out he has some big problems to and his sickness is getting worse. so he didn't make it to church and so we have to work through that and help this man. so it was a week full of times that i couldn't help but smile and some where i was just bummed. but all in all it was a great week. we had fun and got the work done. we were able to meet a lot of new people and lots of members that we havent met yet so that was exciting! we taught by the spirit and i know the people felt it! one sister we have been working with since the day i got here finally came to church for the 1st time yesterday and it was so coooool! this work is amazing and honestly i wouldn't want to be anywhere else! I love you guys and hope your doing well back home! just keep the faith and keep pushing foward! i came across a scripture that was really cool! actually what happened is we were in a lesson and i was just feeling like i needed to change what we had origianlly planned so i opened the book of mormon and it fell on this scripture, alma 37:36-37. it was perfect and she was like wow elders that's a really great scripture and it was exactly what she needed for that moment. stuff like that happens all the time and it's just a testimony builder to me that this work is true and it shows the power of the book of mormon. so read that verse and apply it! it will make the difference! i love you guys and hope the best for all you! i love this mission and i love the phillippines! Nagmamahal Elder Machen