Rain!

Rain! It rained this week! It was a beautiful thunderstorm and was so much fun to ride a bike in!

I have been blessed with a wonderful opportunity. We have the privilege of teaching a young girl with Downs Syndrome. She's gotten permission to be baptized so she can go to the temple with her family to do baptisms for the dead. She loves the gospel and has a sweet testimony. I am so honored that I have this opportunity to get to know her and be able to teach her the missionary lessons. The family is great as well. I really enjoy being in their home and feeling the love that is there. She's getting baptized June 27th and we're all very excited!

We have been trying to get in contact with a less active lady since I got here. She has a non member daughter who's 12, so we were hoping to see if she was interested. We left a card with our number and a little note on it that said,"Missionaries! Give us a call if you ever need help or have any questions! :)" This is just what all of our cards say. We leave it vague to try to attract more people. Well this lady called us! She asked for help moving out of our ward. We got a bunch of people together and helped her move out and got missionaries and members on the other side to help her move in. It was a good team effort. The non member daughter had a lot of questions and we told her that the missionaries at her new house would love to answer them for her. She was very excited to ask them. Hopefully we just set those missionaries up for a golden investigator and helped reactive a family!

We're back on Facebook this week. Instead of the efforts being put forth to talk to everyone everywhere. They want us to focus on the area that we're serving in and helping the members become online missionaries. So we're running a Facebook initiative! We're challenging our members to make Mormon.org profiles, share the url on Facebook with a picture with the missionaries, and then reach out to their non member friends through that. We'll see how it goes. We have high hopes for it!

This week I was thinking about obedience. Mostly obedience to God. If I want to get better at something, I'm going to ask someone who's good at it and then follow their advice. This same thing applies with God. He literally has a perfect body and is a perfect being. If we took advice from him on how to be better, he could give us the formula to be perfect. The beauty is that he has done this for us! It's all spelled out in the scriptures. If we read the scriptures, find those things we need to improve in our lives, ask Him for help in improving those things, then we can begin our journey on the road to becoming perfect like Him!

Well I love you all! Have a dandy week!

-Elder Toph Tribe

Hike this morning with my district. Elder Unasa in the shades, Elder
Vanderplas in the hat, Elder Sultan in the back, Sister Huck is the
closer one, and Sister Williams is the one a little further back.

This is a member. She leaves on her mission today! She's going to Kobe

Japan. She was our Guinea pig for our Facebook initiative. So we got a
picture with her and had her post on Facebook.

Elder Burbank, me, and Elder Peterson. A 3 generation family picture!
Elder Burbank goes home next Monday so he sent me this.