The Great Moth Invasion

Hey hope everyone is doing good. This past week just blew by. A few of our investigators were out of town and some cancelled, so we didn't have a ton of missionary work going on. But we did do a TON of service this week. Like the most of my entire mission. Some for members, some non-members, and some in between. We helped move a family with a lot of kids and that was pretty crazy. Lifted some pretty heavy stuff. We had to move a hot tub, and we did it Egyptian style, using big logs as rollers. But for some of the desks and beds and stuff we had like 10 people lifting and it was still really heavy. We helped a guy build a picket fence, he is a non-member and in another area, but we helped him out and after District Meeting got the whole district over there and it only took a couple hours with everyone there but we fenced his whole yard. He's going to be meeting with the missionaries as soon as he gets back from vacation. And it was cool to see how at first he really seemed to kind of be wary of us, but as we all just helped and had some fun he realized we were normal people with a special job, and now seems pretty interested in meeting with missionaries. Service! It's great. Think of the Book of Mormon, Ammon goes to King Lamoni and just asks for service. Aaron goes his way and preaches to people. One was much more successful than the other. And I guess it's like moth migrating season in the black forest, so as we drive at night they are attracted to the headlights, so it feels like we're going through an asteroid field or something as they hit the windshield and the truck. There are quite a few. We need to wash our truck now too. Did a couple baptism interviews this week as well. One for a 14 year old girl that got baptized in Calhan, and one for a 10 year old getting baptized next weekend. That was pretty cool, since the Calhan Elders are having so much success, I've been doing interviews like crazy and they are all very different. This 10 year old kid has some special needs so the interview was a little interesting at times, but he understood the principles and why we keep the commandments. The only possible concern is that he is afraid of water. And there was a kid like that who got baptized in Sanford many moons ago, and he spent 45 minutes in the font refusing to go under. So hopefully that doesn't happen this time. Oh yeah! I get this letter this week from Selective Service. Now, selective service is the thing where in the US you sign up for the draft basically. Well I thought it was funny and was about to throw it away but it was like "Thank you for registering with selective service. Sign this card and keep it in your wallet as proof". And I was all like "waitwhat?" So ya. Apparently I'm signed up for the draft. So if the USA and Canada go to war guess who's side I'll be on. Naw, it said if you were a non-immigrant alien to send a copy of your visa to an address. So I did. As fun as it would be to get drafted into a foreign countries military... Oh yeah, and we had a great presentation yesterday in church to the youth about missionary work, and Elder Frazier and I shared the First Vision basically, and then one of the techies in the ward got up and talked about Facebook and Twitter as missionary tools and it was pretty interesting to think about. She talked about becoming a fan of the LDS church, and that if the average person has 120 friends, then 120 friends see you fan that. if 10 people fan it, then 1200 people see that. See, it adds up pretty fast. If every youth in the ward posted a scripture as their status on Sunday, and lets say you have 30 youth, average 120 friends doo de doo plug in and crunch some numbers and boom arox. 3600 non-members people reading the scriptures. That's like half a stake. Something to think about. Love you! Elder Gibb