Detroit Car Show

This week was normal...kind of dull.  Elder Fakahau and I have resolved to do something awesome every day--that spices up life and we can have some fun. If you aren't having fun on a mission, you are doing it wrong! Any one who doesn't think so can fly a kite! Ha. Ha. We started off the week by going to the car show. It was super fun! Really neat cars! We rode with another set of elders and the member that took us is an engineer from Ford so we got the "tour." Ugh! I just wanted to ditch him! Last year's show was better. There were more cars and I had more fun with Elder Oviatt. We just ran around and did what we wanted. It wasn't like a school field trip. It was fun to be back in my kingdom again. Westland Stake covers the downtown area so I drove through Dearborn. It was great! Back where I knew everything!

Tuesday we didn't do anything too great other than email. We had an appointment with the less-active

family I told you about last week--the one with the crazy family life. They were doing so much better! It's amazing to be able to see people as a missionary. You can literally see and feel the light that is in them. They were doing so much better! The son even prayed and we felt like we made a difference. We were asked not to spend time with them by the bishop though. So that was our last set appointment with them. After that, Elder Fakahau took some medicine and a nap. He was having an allergic reaction. The was the rest of our day...almost. We went with the other elders and walked across a frozen lake! Don't tell! I guess it's against the rules? Grey Zone! Got to love it!! ha-ha

Tracting in the country

We had a mission training broadcast from Salt Lake on Wednesday. It was good. Six of the apostles were there and a couple of them instructed us. It was nice to hear them live--just to us tell us that they feel our pain and are cheering for us. We met with Camryn and Kaylee the two 11-year-old girls we are teaching. They love the gospel and want to come to church but there less-active mom won't take them. It's so frustrating! They want to come. They keep all of their commitments and try so hard. Their mom, who knows this is true, just won't make that step for them. Please pray for them and their mom! We have another appointment with them this Wednesday and are going to try and have some members take the girls to church next week --if their mom won't.

We think we have bed bugs. All Saturday and Sunday  we cleaned cleaned cleaned and sprayed some nasty chemicals around. I swear we have the cleanest apartment in the whole mission right now! Our poor washer and drier haven't stopped going for two days! The last two loads are in right now so it's almost done! Its been a good week though. Love you guys!

Love,
   Cooper