Hello everyone
This week has kind of gone by slow Elder Armantrout was sick for the first part of the week then I got sick the second half and I still kind of sick I’ve almost lost my voice right now which is fun as a missionary :D…. We have this on investigator who we met with about a month ago who was really solid but ever since then every time we have set an appointment something has come up like work and this last time she was really sick and she didn’t want to calls us this last week to cancel because she didn’t want to seem flaky so the member she is living with called us telling us that. Every other time before that when she had to call to cancel you could tell that she was really sorry and she kept telling us that she didn’t want to seem flaky so it has been interesting.

That kid that we have been working with is still on fire and his dad came to visit him again after church yesterday so we were able to meet him he seems like a really nice man

Oh and at church after sacrament meeting this guy walked up to me saying “are you guys the umm the umm people who umm” and I said “the missionaries?” He was like “yes them”, I am a member and I kind of fell a way for a little while and my grandma has been bugging me to come back to church so here I am. But the way he said it was slow and sounded like he was drunk but I showed him to the next class and gave him a Book of Mormon and were able to give him a gospel principles book and introduced him to the bishopric and they got his information because he wasn’t on the ward roster and the whole time he seem a little drunk but he didn’t smell at all but we set an appointment to meet that night when we got to his house we learned that the reason why he acted the way he did was because he had a “learning disability” I don’t know the proper way to say that and he was living in this group home where it was him and this other kid who was also kind of slow and they and this worker staying there with them to make sure all is well with them so that surprised us a lot and kind of made us feel a little bad for being so quick to judge but we were able to have a great lesson with him and his roommate and the worker guy. The member seemed slow but he remembered a lot that he learned at church which was great and he is exciting to start coming back to church he told us he does drink and smoke a little and knows he needs to stop so we helped him dump out all the beers and stuff. He was really excited to do that. It was great. It will be interesting to continue to visit with him because he seem all there just slow and it is a nice break from teaching people who all they want to do is bash or just disagree with everything we say and it is also nice having to teach soo simply it really helps us get back to the basics of what we teach.

Elder Birch