9-19-11

Hello!
My week was pretty good. It actually rained really hard!....for about 5 minutes. Stupid weather likes to toy with me I guess. Yeah, I believe I did. I have a lot of boxes of contacts so I'm pretty sure I got them. I didn't know Kelli was moving out. That's pretty neat. The house keeps getting bigger and bigger huh. I guess with out me there no one seems to want to stay around... ha ha. Well Kenneth Poer is super excited to get baptized. In one of our lessons his friend Mike was over, so I think we have another investigator :) During that lesson Kenneth said that if he could be baptized tomorrow he would. That was pretty neat to hear, sadly though he has to go to church 3 times before he can be baptized so we are either going to do it the 1st or the 8th depending on whether or not we can confirm him right after the baptism or if we have to wait for sacrament.
 We were looking through our Area Book and came across a family that was almost baptized. As close as you could get. The dad had the interview he was found worthy, but at the last minute they decided not to go through with it. So we decided to go and see them some time. The Jackson family, I don't know ifI told you about them but anyway, They had to move in with their relatives and get this, their relatives were the family that almost got baptized. Neither one of them knew that the other family was a member or almost became one. Funny huh. When we knocked on the door we talked to the dad named Antonio Jackson, and asked him if he still wanted to be baptized, he said no and so we asked if he knew Kevin Jackson. He looked at us and said "Yeah, he's in the other room." We had know idea that this is where they moved too. So Kevin came out and we had a lesson on the back porch. Antonio joined us and in the middle of the lesson he said he changed his mind and wants to be baptized. We scheduled the baptism for October 15 which is almost exactly a year from when he was suppose to have gotten baptized. Kevin wasn't sure why he had to move into his brother-in-laws house and he has been feeling a little crappy lately but I believe that he was sent there to be a good example to Antonio and his family.
Another funny story. Elder Nielson and I were meeting with the Brown family. They have a hard time coming to church due to financial problems so we were kind of talking about that. After we left Brother Brown called and said that they didn't appreciate Elder Nielson's attitude towards them and that he can no longer come back to the house, but that I was more than welcomed anytime. Ha ha. But I can't go there unless Elder Nielson is with me or we go on splits and another missionary is there. So we might do that sometime. Elder Hadderly had to go home because of back problems so the Elder in Valdosta 2nd ward got a temporary companion named Elder Sumrall. He is an awesome guy. He is only 19 and can't go on a mission for another year and a half about because he works for the government and that's when his contract goes up. He graduated from high school when he was 16 and goes all over the middle east for the government because he knows Arabic. He said that if we go on splits together he'd teach me some middle eastern stuff. Pretty awesome.
I was wondering if you could send me in the next package a scripture master card or book mark or something because with my new scriptures I don't remember all the scripture masteries and I don't have them marked.
Anyway, I'm trying to think of anything else that was really neat or cool or funny that happened to me... Oh! One of the recent converts named Arthur Fillmore told us in one of the lessons we had with him that he is thinking about going back to his other church because he likes the way they rejoice and sing and stuff. He still wants to come to ours but wants to only every other week or something. When I heard this I was heart broken. He said he has been praying about it for a long time and really hard but hasn't gotten his answer yet. I hope he realizes that he's already made that decision once and the testimony he had when he first started coming was super strong, I don't know what happened.
Well I love this gospel with all my heart. I know I'm doing the right thing and I'm where the Lord wants and needs me to be. I'm loving doing missionary work when i can talk to people and get my point across that lets them understand how I feel. I would think that getting up in the mornings at 6:30 would get easier as the time goes by but I am terribly wrong. If anything it gets harder. We get up and go running and it's hard rolling out of bed when I know that back home I would be sleeping. But oh well. It's a good habit to get into so I'll do it with a smile. :) kind of like that.
Anyway, I love you all and am so proud and lucky to be in this family with such amazing people around me. You guys are the greatest and have made me who I am, and hopefully I don't do anything that makes you embarrassed that I said that. ha ha.
Love Elder Klingler