Hey everyone!

We have a great two weeks coming up! Last week was great a great week! I went on an exchange on Tuesday to Wednesday with one of the new missionaries in our zone. It was really cool because he was one of the missionaries I took out proselyting the first day when they got off the plane. We had tons of fun and we met really cool people. We taught one of their investigators and they generally meet with him every day, but for some reason he scheduled the next appointment for Thursday. We found out why later that night.

We were just walking to less active members houses and we passed this guy on the street and started to talk to him. He was going to his night shift and said he would take the book of mormon and will read it that night. He has a family and everything, he was a very good contact, and he told us to come back the next morning at 11:00 which is when they normally meet with their other investigator. Ha! the Lord's hand in missionary work. It was awesome. It was a back to back exchange.

From Wednesday to Thursday we did exchanges with the assistants to the president. Those were some amazing exchanges. I stayed in Encino and had seen some miracles. We found so many potentials that day. One of them was there former investigator that we have been trying to get in contact with forever. He finally answered the door and he was super legit and was willing to take the lessons again. Before we left we asked him for referrals and he pointed to a house down the street. It ended up being a Jehovah's Witness, but he took the Book of Mormon and was pretty open about it. We could probably go back and teach him. At the end of the night we had like 10 min. before we had to be back in the apartment. So, we just went street contacting around the apartment complex. Everyone was blowing us off. There was this one guy who was on his phone. We asked him if he would like a card he just looked at us and back to his phone. BUT, at the end of the street there was a lady probably in her 40's just sitting there. She said she had no hope at all.  Her dad died when she was 28 and she’s still sad and depressed. We talked to her about the Plan of Salvation and the resurrection. How the sting of death is swallowed up in Jesus Christ. At the end of it we said a prayer with her, and she said that this was a sign. It was awesome. She totally changed from that conversation. The rest of the week was pretty normal. We had a special leadership meeting on Friday. They came out with these new packets for new missionaries to better handle stress. It is called, Adjusting to Missionary Life. They are pretty awesome actually I love it. We talked about how can we take stress off other missionaries as leaders and help them to better manage it. We talked a lot about leadership in general and more about how to better work with your Bishop and Ward Mission Leader. I’m super excited for these next two weeks. We have Mission Leadership council this week and of course the general conference. Then next week Elder Kopischke of the 70 is coming to do zone conferences. He spoke last general conference in the last session talking about how we can be accepted of the Lord, so we are excited about that as well. Oh, I also hit my year mark last Thursday. That was weird. I don't feel like I've been out here that long, but at the same time I feel like it has been forever since I've been home.

Love you all!

Elder Larman