Hey Family,

Things are going great with the work here in Cambridge! It's a great little town, and we've pretty much knocked every door in this city in the last seven days!  We did a lot of tracting this week, and even though we got into a lot of houses, we didn't' meet anyone that was willing to keep commitments. They mostly were people who thought they were pretty skilled with the Bible and wanted to see if they could prove the Mormons wrong. There weren't too many houses we spent much time in this week. Last night we were tracting, and we met a Puerto-rican lady named Mari. She spoke a little English, but not much. We offered to stop back when her husband was home. We came back 30 minutes later, and we met her husband. He said his life was pretty rough right now, probably because he was not actively going to church. We taught them and they asked if they would be allowed to come to church with us. We assured them that they were welcome, and they were excited!

Things are really going well here. Hopefully, we are able to dodge this flu bug that's going around.
I love you guys! Have a great week! I won't be able to email you next week, but I still have an IN postage stamp. We'll see if I can't get a letter mailed to you. It may take a week to get there, but hopefully it will work out.  Thanks again for everything! I love you guys!

Love,
Elder Wallentine

Dear Family,



I'm sorry it's Wednesday again and I'm writing you all. We have a surprise meeting tomorrow, and p-day got changed again. Things are going great here, and we have had some really great experiences.

One that was really funny was last week we found ELEVEN new people to teach, and in one day ten of them cancelled, and one disappeared. We tracted a lot after that. We were out tracting, and it was towards the end of a long day. We had just been yelled at by a very angry man from another church, and he was not happy with the whole "modern revelation" thing. He wouldn't even pray with us because "Jesus said not to associate with devils." We left and tracted for most of the remaining night. Then we met a VERY interesting person. A man came to the door dressed like a woman with long hair, about 6'6" tall; 'her' frame filled the door, and it was clear their voice had been unnaturally altered. We asked to share the gospel with 'her', but she refused, and said she "was a very happy man...woman." We said goodbye, and we left.

After that, we had an appointment with a couple we've been teaching for a while. They held their appointment, and they are very excited to be baptized on the 7th of December! After they are, their son, who lives in the same home, will follow shortly thereafter. Missionary work is full of trials, but they are only for the purpose of "tasting the bitter, so we could taste the sweet." I don't know if anything on earth can compare to the experiences you have doing missionary work.  I know this church is true. If it wasn't, the great joy as well as the intense trials we experience wouldn't even come our way. Missionary work would be...blah. I'm glad we get to see the contrast.  I love you guys! Have a great week!

Love,
Elder Wallentine

Hey everyone!

We had a really great week, and we were able to set two more baptismal dates with people for December 7. I hope those will be two really big weeks! We are looking forward to it. Something we have found that really helps to strengthen less-actives is to take them teaching with the missionaries or just home-teaching at all. We are doing that with a man here, and before each appointment, he studies PMG so he can teach! It sure is a lot of work. In the last two years, the PPM has baptized 2,500 converts, and you can bet there are a LOT of Less-Active members. Our efforts now are mainly going back and reactivating those who have strayed. It's not easy to keep things strong.

Since p-day is on Thanksgiving, I don't know if we'll be able to email that day, just a heads up.

Thanks again! I love you guys! Have a great week!

Love,
Elder Wallentine