Letter from 1/2/2012

Hey Family, Happy Beginning of the end of the world! Well.... probably not. Our New Years down here in Temecula was a pretty warm one. Lately its been around the 80's, it just seems like it is summer again! On new years eve we had to be in by 7 because of all of the crazy people. But at 6 we were able to have a dinner at a members house with one of our former investigators, whose name is Andy. It turned out really good, it was very relaxed and I hope Andy will come to our church one of these days. He doesn't seem to want us to teach him, but he wants to come to church. He usually goes over to the Calvary chapel church, which is a christian church that is not too fond of us mormons. So i'm wondering if that has anything to do with him meeting with us, or not meeting with us, or whatever.

The Vampire man came to church two days ago, that was exciting. His name is Rayray by the way. And he is totally going in my journal! Last Tuesday we went by to teach him, and he apparently did not want us to teach him for some odd reason. But eventually we invited him to church, and he was super excited to go to church. He said that he has been having a rough time, and that going to church would be good for him.... As long as his feet did not burn... Anywise, he came to church. In Sunday school he got up and did a rap for everyone in the class. It was clean, but I have never seen any class start out with a rap before, which was pretty interesting. After every hour he had to get up and take a smoke brake. And he said that he liked it for a few reasons. 1) his feet did not burn. 2) He loved the YW voice that got up to sing during sacrament. 3) There was not crosses. 4) everyone was nice. 5) he was able to do his rap in class. Then during church he invited us over for dinner... And we have smelt his house, and it smelt sooooo bad!! All of the smoke was terrible! So we said that we could, and went over. We had some kind of chicken, which he told us was pork chops, potatoes, and steamed veg. During the dinner he was going off on some weird stuff! He told us that he was a millionaire, he owned all of the 6 flags except 1, he owned a store back east called giant. He also believes in energies, but not the holy ghost. He apparently does not believe in Christ... And after all of this time, coming to church, talking with us, etc. He thought that we did not believe in Christ, That we were vampires, and we were a cult.... Soooo, to say the lest, once he came to a realization of all of these things that we believe, he did not want to have us teach him, or come to church... He still is a child of god and all, but he has something wrong inside his head, and there really is not too much that we can do for him. This sounds bad, but he is soo far gone, we cant do anything unless something changes. So ya crazy stuff. It makes me feel bad, but what can ya do?