March 28th, 2016

That really was a marathon week! I'm glad you made it and that spring break is here. Thanks so much for the awesome Easter Package it really brightened up my week :) There was some real good stuff that happened this week! None of the other Elders had ever been to a Catholic Church before and Natchez has one of the oldest in all of Mississippi that was built in like the 1840's or something real old like that. So anyway my companion and I were driving past and the doors were open so I had him pull over and I brought him in. There was only one guy in the whole church and he had just got up from praying when we walked in and he about passed out. That is our new homie Phillip. He came up and shook our hands and said that "he had never seen a latter-day saint walk through those doors" and that he had lived there all his life. It was a neat experience. He got to know us a little bit and first and talked to me a lot about BYU football and my companion about history and was just having a good time. Then 5 feet from the Catholic altar he started asking us about Joseph Smith and we were able to teach him about the Book of Mormon and about living prophets. We also talked a ton about Family History and what the Osmands taught about the Word of Wisdom haha It was awesome! About 2 hours later we moved the conversation out to the front steps were he introduced us to his friend the other mass director and was just so happy to have some new latter-day saint friends. He invited us to the special easter mass and 8 p.m. so we decided that would be a good experience. He also gave us some souvenir Holy Water. So we went to this Easter mass and it was pretty neat because through the hand of God we had met all 3 of the priests mass directors. We had met 2 that day and 1 we worked with on the Habitat house. They gave us all candles and lite this like 4 foot candle first and then passed the light of the world through the dark church. It was a pretty cool experience. Church was also a real good time. The Easter lesson went good and a few of the kids that are the wild ones were sick so that made things a little more mellow haha I have started the Doctrine and Covenants challenge were your last 138 days you read the D&C backwards a section every day. Today is section 136, so if anybody wants to join me feel free too. It's been a party and a half so far! I'm happy to be here! I sure love y'all! Things are good! I'm being real well taken care of! Love your mud!!