August 18th, 2014- Busy, Busy, Busy

Craziest week of my life!  It was so busy I love it!  We were able to have so much success.  On Monday we picked up a new investigator named Johnny.  He is a really cool guy.  Super talkative but he has been reading the pamphlet we gave him and is really excited to read the Book of Mormon.  On Tuesday we hardly had time to do everything we had planned.  We went to the other Johnny's house to do some service for him and right after that we rushed to CASA (a food bank place) to fit in some service there.  We couldn't stay there long because we had to rush home to meet a member who was going with us on a teamup.  That went really well.  Wednesday we went to District Meeting in Guntersville and then went on an exchange.  I stayed in Guntersville with Elder Dietrich and Elder Nielson went back to Fort Payne.  Him and Elder Turley did so awesome here!  They were able to find there way around the area (I was worried about that)  and they set a baptism date for Curtis!  I was so pumped! On Thursday I got back to Fort Payne in time to go on another regular teamup we have on Thursday mornings. After that teamup we went into town to see Estella.  She still hasn't read the Book of Mormon lately... but it will happen.  Then she will come to church and get baptized! haha We have had a lot of spiritual lessons with her.  After Estella we ran to help the Nelsons pack up because they moved to Collinsville.  Then got back to the apartment as fast as we could to get picked up for yet another teamup.  We went to see Brother Laney a less active.  He is a really cool guy he is just really hesitant to talk about the church.  We are making progress though because that night we were actually able to share a scripture with him and talk about that.  Friday was the only day we had to try and see some other investigators like Debra and then see some potential investigators.  It ended up going really well.  Saturday morning we helped the Nelsons move and then went to a Branch party.  This branch has the coolest parties ever.  They had it right next to a lake and had boats and jet skis and stuff.  It was so tempting but don't worry, I was obedient. I stayed on the shore and ate a lot of food haha. Sunday was crazy because we found out in sacrament meeting that one of us was going to have to teach Gospel principles.  Someone also asked me to go into their Sunday School class and talk about the importance of keeping journals.  So while I did that Elder Nielson was teaching Gospel Principles.  He is a stud.  After church we went on another team up with the Branch President.  That guy is funny.  He was super bold with the members we saw too.  It went good.  That night we went back to the church for a Stake priesthood broadcast because some of our other appointments fell through.  Then right after that meeting we drove to Guntersville to stay the night there because we were supposed to wake up early this morning and drive to Huntsville with the Gville Elders for another "Zone Activity" (a hike).  Well this morning we woke up early but got a text from the Zone Leaders saying because of some thunderstorms the hike was cancelled.  So we just got back from Guntersville a little while ago.  That ends the busiest week of my life!!  It was awesome.  I hope yall had a great week.  I love you all

Elder Whetten