Hola family! 4/16/12

Hey! Sorry if this letter is a little short, I don't have a lot of time to write this letter because we have a dinner appointment in about an hour! This week has been a slow week in missionary work. Elder Follett has been getting over a sickness and then another sickness takes its place. Also, we had to go to downtown Portland to visit the doctor twice. It's a bummer because the problem is that Elder Follett has been sick for about 2 weeks now. I was sick also but only for a few days. We took it easy, but we both wanted to go outside and actually work because as a missionary its almost hurts you to just do nothing. We tried to just do a little bit of work, but it made Elder Follett really tired...and even a little more sick. Because our days have not been super structured, we forgot to call our Ward Mission Leader a few times. We also had to cancel going to a few important meetings. We really want to get back to work this week, but still Elder

Follett has a pain in his knee. We're kinda stuck in a hard place because Brother Nordstrom, our Ward mission leader, told PEC that he was a little concerned for us. Now, I know he knows what Elder Folett and I are going through with multiple illnesses. It's just discouraging to see our leader be concerned about our lack of progress when we're just not able to do everything we have been doing in the past. This week we're going to go back to work, not to impress or show people that we can work, but because we know that it is the time to go out and work harder so that we may fulfill our calling.

Also on another note, today we realized we've had a homeless man sleeping right next to our door for the last couple of days. We have seen trash right next to our apartment door right under the stairs that lead to the apartment above us. Today, coming back from our exercises at the church we saw the homeless man sleeping by our door. Now the reason he is doing this is because there is no rain where he is sleeping, AND we think also because we have pictures of Jesus Christ all over our windows. Now, we wanted to make sure we were safe, so we called our apartment complex managers and let them know, and we turned up our hymns music in our apartment so that he would wake up and leave. We didn't do that right away because we know he probably needed a place to sleep, but at the same time we still wanted to make sure we were safe. We decided we are gonna put a Book of Mormon our there so if he comes back we can talk to him about the Gospel... and also tell him that he shouldn't be sleeping there.

Anyways, can't wait for this week! We have zone conference and me and some other Elders in the district our singing "Joseph Smith's First Prayer" for it. We're way excited for it!

Thanks for all that you do for me even when I am not home. I really appreciate it.

Love,