2 Baptisms Set

I have been really busy today. We went to the temple this morning and then basically just hung around Boise all day. I found out Trevor is serving with Elder Soulberg. He is pretty cool and Trevor should have fun with him. I sadly just missed him at the mission home earlier today. Anyways tell Thomas I said Happy Birthday. I will try and write a letter to him and yall this week.

We have 2 baptisms set for I think Feb 6. This lady named Dorothy went to church and really liked it and has gone above and beyond with scripture study and feels the church is true. Marty Chico invited her to church and basically got us to start teaching her. Marty was a Less active guy when I first got here and now he is active but still smokes but he is working on it. Dorothy also smokes and is working on it. Marty's son Vincent is the other one that is set to be baptized on the same day. I like going over to Marty's house to hang out and teach. He is a really nice guy.

So I found my camera and I took a picture of me holding a really huge snake at an investigators house. This family is really cool and nice. They are part of a non denominational church. They are just interested in learning about what we believe. Aaron got out of jail and is now at home. We had an appointment but they weren't there.

My last companion got transferred to Nampa which is basically the city right next to Caldwell. He wrecked the car over there as well. I'm glad I didn't let him drive lol. Sorry to hear about the car having problems again. That sucks that the batteries and stuff froze. How are granny and all them doing? I still haven't got Aunt Cindy's gift. (on its way!) I got Grandma and Grandpas. Anyways I got to go. I need to go over to someones house to give a blessing. Yall stay safe and I hope I answered most of yalls questions.

Love
Elder Mattei

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.

Love
Elder Mattei

First Letter of 2010

Elder Icharante-Remoune

Elder Mattei in Caldwell

Well its good to hear yall are having fun at Grandmas. I miss all the food lol. New Years I had another day off. We stayed up till 3 am playing risk and the next day we played basketball and then had a nerf war in the church at night. We turned out all the lights in this huge church building and played capture the flag and stuff. Things with my companion have gotten somewhat better. I think he is prideful and I yelled at him the other day. It takes a lot for me to yell at someone so that shows how much my patience has worn thin. Well one of our investigators, Aaron was thrown in jail. He committed to be baptized too lol. He said to give it some time before he would be baptized but then on New Years he got thrown in jail. So we're probably going to go visit him in jail. We are the only ones that can actually go see him since we're ordained ministers. I have no idea what he did to go to jail. But hopefully everything is ok. Well last night I stayed up playing Risk again. Elder Nelson always beats me and Elder Edwards. I hated to see LSU lost. I'm hoping the Saints play better. I got to see some of the Boise State game though. It was good that they won. Tell Grandma and Grandpa I said hi. It stinks that its getting that cold there. It has been in the 40's and 30's here and sometimes the 20's. I'm excited for transfer calls tomorrow. The time has been kinda flying by so that is always good. I'm serving with Elders Kraus, Leonard, Nelson, Edwards, Cluff, Claridge, Moos, Nelson and that is our whole zone. There are 2 elder Nelsons. I call 2 of my MTC buddies especially Elder Ware. I call him quite a bit. My trainer is pretty disobedient. His whole zone basically is. I was shocked at how disobedient they are. But he is still a good guy and I won't rat on him cause its his choices not mine. I wouldn't mind a Saints shirt and stuff and maybe some LSU stuff. I need more Saints shirts and stuff though so that would be cool to have. Anyways I hope yall had a good New Year and hope everything is going well.

Love
Elder Mattei