3/18/10 News from Maple Valley

Hey Family,
How are you all doing?
Dad, thanks for the CD’S, tho I don’t really get to listen to them very much. Elder Tanner doesn’t like classical, tho I am slowly changing that.
Life is great out here and I do tract about 5-6 hours a day. The Lord is really starting to bless us especially with an investigator named Gil Sandoval. When I got here he didn’t want any lessons from the missionaries, so for about 12 or 13 weeks we have been praying for him and talking to him off and on, now this is a guy who married an active LDS women 13 yrs. Ago and only started coming to church about 2 yrs ago and started really investigating the church last year. Then it all changed we had a stake conference with an area authority named Elder Brinkerhoff and he talked to Gil along with President Rodarte our stake president for a good 2 hours and blessed his home. So the Tuesday after Stake Confer. We go to Gil’s house with a ward missionary and we talked to him about the church and about repentance, it was a very spiritual meeting, afterwards I felt prompted to ask him if he wanted to start the lessons with us and he said yes!!! So we came over yesterday with the intention to teach him, but we ended up just talking to him for about 2 hours and I just love the answer he gave.I will quote it exactly how he said it to get the full meaning of it. He said “I don’t think the church has been restored, I know it has been restored and that the church that my wife belongs to is that church” He has such a strong testimony of this church and it is people like that , that makes a mission worth it. He is so close to baptism.
Concerning the weather it has been great for the past 2 weeks it has been nothing but sunny and in the 60.s with no snow what so ever, just thought I would tell you that piece of info. Just to make you jealous =) Bwahaha.
Love you all, hope to hear from you soon.
Elder O'Brien