A Boring P Day

Elders Roth, Smith, Krauss, Edwards, Leonard and Mattei

The Caldwell Zone

Elder Roth and Elder Mattei

I tried to send dad's package the other day and they wouldnt take it cause of some tape thing or something like that so I have to go back to the post office and send it. I don't have a whole lot on the memory card right now. Don't send it yet cause I can't find my camera. We lost our car this week to other missionaries and I may have left it in there. I think I'll find it but I don't have it right now. Today has been very boring and probably the worst p day on my mission. We have no car to go anywhere and its raining and there is nothing to do. I got a new companion yesterday. His name is Elder Roth. He seems to be pretty cool so hopefully everything goes well. We were suppose to go to Red Robin and Elder Ware was suppose to take us but they pretty much ditched us so I wasted my day waiting around for him and I'm pretty aggravated.

Aaron, the guy we have been teaching went to jail for some past charges he had so we visited him in jail last week. It was just like the movies, he was in a orange jump suit and we had to talk to him on a phone. His gf told us he used to be a leader in the krypts gang. So he had a pretty bad past but I would have never guessed he was in a gang by talking to him. He is a really nice guy. Anyways we are going to have to try and see him once a week in jail. This lady named Dorathy that we teach is really interested in the church and she liked it when she went to church so she could be a potential baptism. Marty Chico helped us find her and he brought her to church. He is a less active guy but he has been going to church pretty actively lately. I also teach a guy who is from Iraq. His name is Aquil. He is a recent convert but is less active because of persecution he has gone through. He was beat up in Iraq for attending a LDS church with a soldier. He came to church last week and we are going to try and get him active again. Some lady that was coming over to teach his wife English said she would not come in if he let us in so he told her to go home lol. He is like I don't understand why she can't be friendly with you guys. He said that she doesn't even know us and she judges us because we are Mormon. He said that the Mormon church has treated him better than anyone else has. Send this emails to dad's email cause its gonna be pretty much the same thing to him. My companion is from Indianapolis by the way. Well I got to run so I will talk to yall next week.

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Elder Mattei