6 month mark, A new nephew

Here's Elder Lyman's most recent email: "Monday again. Well that's definitely cool news about whatever his name is, hopefully I'll find out next week. I'm glad it sounds like everything is going good and all, congrats Jeremy and Heather and Livvy and Cohen. I can't wait to get pictures. Also congrats to the triathloners, that doesn't sound very fun.


Jeremy's and Heather's new baby McCoy



The "Triathloners"


As far as what my days are like, that depends on the day. Monday is p-day and then FHE, Wednesday night is english class, and Saturday morning we play soccer and have an activity at the church in the evening. Those are the only fixed things and other than that it just depends.

These last couple transfers we've been doing quite a bit of work and things with members, quite a bit more so than first transfer, so we have service and member rendez-vous and stuff quite often. We also contact and sometimes try to pass by investigators' and less-actives' houses. We also teach a recent convert quite often, generally a few times a week. So it just depends.

As far as who we are teaching, we have people but we are really having trouble getting a hold of people right now. We teach a less-active member and his non-member wife, he is an African guy from the Congo and she is French. We have a guy who we haven't taught for quite a while but with whom we are still in contact who is an African college student who is Muslim. We are now teaching a lady who is a friend of our recent convert that he brought to a rendez-vous one day, she's just a French lady. Then we have a Chinese guy and girl who just showed up to church one day, I think I've talked about that. And that's kind of it for now.

We had a kind of crazy thing happen yesterday with the Chinese guy and girl. For a few weeks we've been calling him and trying to set something up with them again but he hasn't answered and finally the other day we got a text from him that said he needs to think for a while about whether or not they want to keep seeing us. So that was just kind of that for now, and then yesterday we were walking home from our recent convert's house and we passed a man on the road who walked up and stopped us and started talking to us. He then suddenly went and open his door and pointed for us to come in and sit down, so we did. So we sat in his house and talked to him for like 45 minutes and he was kind of crazy and at some point he talked about how he rented a room out up stairs and how he had people from all over stay there and how at the time he had a Chinese guy and girl there. We asked what their names were and he told us and they were their full, long Chinese names but each had what sounded like the names by which our investigators went in the middle. So we kind of wondered and then they came down stairs and we could see them through a stained glass door and it looked like them. So we walked over and sure enough it was them and they were pretty shocked. They asked us how we knew where they lived and we said we said we didn't but their landlord had just invited us in. So that was all that really happened and we still don't know if we'll start teaching them again but it was pretty crazy and at least now we know where they live so they can't really hide. It was just pretty crazy that in a city with about 150,00 people and thousands of homes we just stumbled into theirs. So that was kind of crazy and took up some e-mail space.

But anyways other than that we didn't do a ton. We did have a really cool activity with the ward Saturday night which I don't really have time to talk about, but it was cool. Also tomorrow we have our interviews with president and it is also my 6 month mark, so that's that. Love you and miss you all."