Elder Dalton E. Griffin: Week Four in Berwick!

Hey y'all,

To start things off we had another round of exchanges, and guess who was in charge of the Berwick area? This Elder right here!! I'm surprised that Berwick hasn't burned to the ground because of it!! It was great!! However, everyone we were going to go see.... was not home. We had two lessons that day, but the rest of the day we were tracting in the rain all day long.

It was great!

Thursday, we had interviews with the President because zone conferences are coming up!! There are two weeks left of this transfer. The time has flown by! We then went to the Salvation Army and helped out there. We got talking to a guy, and we just talked about how just because you live a certain lifestyle doesn't mean you aren't going to heaven. Everyone goes to heaven, we just choose which of the three degrees of glory we feel the most comfortable in. God is not going to force the Celestial Kingdom on someone who doesn't feel comfortable in His presence. The guy then offered us a cigarette to calm the nerves. We politely declined!

We then got to go visit Ruthy. She is such a sweet lady. She was showing us some of her Cherokee Indian plates, and I told her how pretty they were and she gave me one of her plates!! I about died with joy. This woman has so much love in her I will never be able to fathom it all.

On the way out, we were stopped by a man whose wife was a Mormon and they didn't know where the church was. He told us we could come over! His wife doesn't speak English very well so we would get the chance to learn Spanish!! We then went to the Quicks and they fed us dinner and we shared a short message with them.

Friday was another long day of weekly planning. We went to go see someone we had met while tracting, but she wasn't there, however, we then ran into Edward! We were able to teach to him the restoration that night, and he believes in it! He said we could come back on Saturday!

As for Saturday, we had a lesson with the James family that is going to be baptized soon. We had a great lesson with them. Then we had our lesson with Edward and invited him to think about being baptized. After we met with him, we went and had our lesson with Caitlyn and Matt. We were able to teach them about tithing and Caitlyn said that she had a friend who wants to hear what we are teaching to Caitlyn!!

Sunday was more of a relaxed day. We had it planned out, but most of what we were going to do cancelled on us so we headed over to the James family after we did our personal/companion studying. There they fed us dinner and we had their last lesson before they got baptized. They were the only people that we saw that day!

This past week has flown faster than a rocket ship to Mars. Y'all take care now

-Elder Griffin

To the Family:

Hey guys. Things are going well out here. The temperature is dropping and the leaves are changing. When it rains it doesn't stop until mother nature wants it to be done!! It's great though. I like it out here but I don't think I would ever want to live out here. It's just too green... almost like a moldy green!

My comp is from west Jordan Utah

His name is a German name, and we are getting along just great!!

The members feed us most of the times, and yes I am very grateful for the skill to cook.

The humidity is fine as long as it isn't hot. The coat fits just fine and thank you!!!

The Bible is great but our biggest "sickle" is the Book of Mormon.

Out here, you just need to know your basic church doctrine,

and be able to teach it to a 5 year old!!

We have a hand full of investigators, and yes the couple that just got married is still progressing. We have a baptism date set for sometime in October!

The woods just have an old creepy feeling in them, and when it gets dark

it is REALLY dark in those woods.

We have 8 missionaries in our district. Two sets of elders, two sets of sisters. I have not had to speak in church....yet!!

Love you guys