Hi!

This week was kind of frustrating. Isaac doesn't pick up his phone so we don't even know if we are going to teach him anymore or not. The La Costa Ward elders have a priest in their ward that knows him so they're going to try and set something up. Marc Daud is going to get invited to take the lessons next week. We are meeting with Maddie this Sunday as well. We thought we were going to be teaching a lot but it hasn't really happened yet. Hopefully we can start picking things up. Me and Elder Mangus are staying together for another transfer (big surprise.. I've only had 2 transfer companions), but i'm excited. We get along really well. 

Sorry this letter is so short. Nothing really happened this week. We've been biking like crazy so I'm pretty sore, but other than that noooot much.

That;s all I got 

Love you!

Elder Sherwood

We had a good week.  We picked up 2 new investigators. I think I told you about them last week. One is Isaac and the other is Maddie. Isaac is a 16-year-old football player who has a lot of faith in Christ and is open minded about our religion and if we can get a hold of him a little more often will progress pretty fast, I think. We are teaching him tonight at a park with one of the priests in our ward. Maddie is Abby Rowen's (a laurel in our ward) friend. We taught her the Restoration and she agreed to hear all of the discussions. She says she is only doing it for educational purposes at this time but is keeping an open mind about it. She is reading the Bible all the way through for the first time and is then going to read the Book of Mormon. So she may or may not have potential. You never know though. The Spirit is a powerful influence. We still have a couple potentials we want to follow up with, so we may be picking up a few more soon.

I got the box. The brownies were fine, probably because they're super manufactured. I let Elder Mangus eat some Oreos so then he took it upon himself to eat 7 of the 10 packs of Oreos this week. So those are gone. I think the candy's gone too. So the box lasted about 2 weeks. Pretty good right? Thanks for all the stuff I really appreciate it! I can't think of anything else right now 

Love you!

Elder Sherwood

September 12 letter

This week was pretty good, especially yesterday. We set a pretty solid appointment for next Sunday at a dinner appointment yesterday. A Family called the Rowen's daughter brought a friend and Elder Mangus invited her and she gave us like a pretty excited "Yeah I'd like that". It blew me away. She says she's Catholic and pretty strong in her faith so I guess we'll see how it goes. We're going to teach her and her mom in the Rowen's house next Sunday. We have an appointment with a 16-year-old who the YSA Elders are passing off to us. So we'll see how that goes as well. Hopefully we can see 2 or 3 baptisms next transfer! That would be cool.

This member gave me this pretty cool hat. That was a bonus.

 

I'm probably going to go through the Fort Collins temple when I get home. 

 

Love you!

Elder Sherwood

September 6, 2016

It's been a good week! We have a lot of potential investigators and referrals. Hopefully we will have a solid teaching pool by the end of this week. I am really enjoying this transfer. Elder Mangus is probably my favorite companion. Nothing really specifically cool happened this week. We got to go to this mansion place in the Olivenhein ward for P-day and play basketball/volleyball and eat pizza. That was cool.

Sorry this letter's so short I can't think of anything. My legs are dead.  We bike up hills like crazy and Elder Mangus is like super human fast. It's unnatural how fast he can go on his big mountain bike.

Well Happy Labor day! (whatever that means..)

Love you!

Elder Sherwood