November 21

Hey family,

This week has been crazy! We have had a lot of great things happen! Probably the craziest thing all week was when we went to Kelly Ross’s house. She is a less active member who used to do work in the temple and just lost all hope in her life and fell off the path. She saw us one day and ran us down in her truck. Well we went over to her house on Thursday. It is amazing the love of God. Whenever we see her, we feel a great spirit. It is amazing. Then she asked us to give her a blessing. Towards the end of the blessing a man knocked on the door. It turns out that this is her boyfriend who abuses her. He came in and started telling us to leave and that we didn't belong there. She took courage and stood up for herself. He still wouldn’t leave though, and he started attacking the church. It kind of got to a point where I really was getting sick of it and I had to stand up and tell him to leave. To make a long story short, we ended up leaving with him.

On an unrelated note, later on that night we had a "Book of Mormon story night" where we acted out a story from the Book of Mormon, which was the story of Abinadi in King Noah’s court. It was amazing, and a less active member brought his nonmember girlfriend.

We also met a man named Boss Fleming. He was a pretty cool guy that met with missionaries a few years ago and loved them. He says that he will forever have such respect for missionaries. He says he is the next big thing in gospel music. He has been working on this album for over ten years and won't drop the album until he feels it is anointed. He claims it is going to be the best, most famous gospel album in the world.

The whole week has been great, and filled with great experiences!

Elder Layton