Email Letter - May 14, 2012

Sorry about the lack of email last week, really there wasn't anything to say that was exciting. Just that I got transferred. I've had a first week up in Redding. Elder Bennion is great and we're having good success. Up here there hasn't been a lot of work in a long time and we're going to be fixing that. It's kind of a bummer to always come to a dead area and then leave when it's revived. But that happens, and it seems to be my calling and when President Weston trusts me to do. I'm alright with that I guess.
So a little bit about the area: It's hot, really hot. It was in the mid 90s almost all last week, and it's only getting hotter. At least it isn't humid. In the area there are a lot of different churches, two of them also happen to be schools. One a university like BYU the other a ministerial school. The Univeristy, called Simpson, is mainly for non-denominational Christians, and they hate the church. If you're a mormon and you try to go to Simpson they make you publicly denounce the church to attend. The other, called Bethel, is into signs, wonders, and miracles, especially healings. Sad thing is that it all happens for them and they think it's the true church, so they're VERY devout. They don't get that it's all false. So in this area there is a lot of opposition to the church, but it's just one more thing to overcome. We're not too worried about  it. We'll do our job to invite, and they'll accept or they won't.
Anyway, not too much to say about the work. We knocked a few hundred doors this week, not counting the Less-Active's and former investigator's doors we knocked on. Which was another good amount.  We'll keep going, and keep our heads up while we do it.