"Am You?"

That's what people in this part of the country say instead of "are you?" Its pretty funny. They also say "them" instead of "they're." For example, you knock on someone's door and a kid anwers it. To say that their parents aren't home, they say "them out." Sounds really weird, but its normal here.

We had some really awesome experiences this week (no, we don't really have any more people to teach [yet], but we did have some cool experiences). Last monday we had dinner at the Mitchell's house, a part member family in the ward (the father, Don, is not a member--his wife was taught and baptized about 6 years ago and they have two sons who are members as well). Afterwards eating dinner, we offered to give James, the older son, a blessing of comfort as he was really nervous for his upcoming exams. He accepted, and we were able to do that. The whole family really appreciated it, especially Brother Mitchell. Its funny because he will decline the invitation to pray himself, but he has all the faith in the world that when we do it, it works. Apparently the exams went really well this week, and Brother Mitchell attributes a lot of that to the blessing we gave his son. On Wednesday, I was asked by a councilor in the Bishopric if I would speak on Sunday. I used this as an opportunity to invite Brother Mitchell to come to church to see me speak. He only stayed long enough to listen to my talk and then he had to go somewhere, but it was great to have him there.

So I had this crazy dream the other day, I guess I'll tell you about it. I can only remember a few seconds of it. I was at the mission home and one of the Zone leaders or Assistants was talking to me, and they had a sheet of paper in their hand. They said something like this: "President wants you to work more in the Low Hill area." That was it. Low Hill is an area of town which is part of our proselyting area. Yesterday after church, we were cycling around Low Hill and we saw a kid trying to saw a large tree branch into peices, so we stopped to help. We dragged it into the back garden to find a yard full of large tree branches, and we spent over an hour helping saw them to smaller peices so they could later be burned in a controlled fashion. We met a bunch of the neighborhood kids while doing so, so that was quite cool. Afterwards we saw a lady painting a fence and spent a while helping her paint while she asked us all sorts of questions about what we do and what we teach. We hope to have another opportunity to teach her more.

Everybody, have a fantastic week.

Love,

Elder Seth Poulsen