Elder Matt Dial

April 16, 2012

Hello everyone,

This week was a good one. Our number don't reflect all the good, but it was good and progressive. As I was looking at the dinner calendar to call the family we were going to eat with the next night, I saw that youth conference was the next week (this is last week). I was like, "We should get Eric to YC and get his fetchin mind BLOWN with the Spirit!" So we did, and he loved it. He came to church and everything.....then he missed the YC testimony meeting Sunday night, but, that's ok because the member of the bishopric of the ward use their soul and listened to the Spirit and for Sacrament meeting program, invited the youth who went to YC to bear a testimony and talk about the experiencia they had. Julio, who was Eric's friend from football and school got up last and bore one of the sweetest testimonies I've heard from a youth. Everyone was in tears and the Spirit was like the carving of the Jaguar in The Testaments that falls on Kohor.....few people will get that. So he went to YC and church, and felt the Spirit. I'm happy. Also in the week we put him and his brother Julio (lots of Julios and Jesus's and Jose's and Maria's) on date for the 29th. He's progressing more and more to the soultry sound of the water hitting the tile in the baptismal font.

Another miracle, there's a family named the Campos family, who are more or less, less active. Apparently, recently, one of their tio's (uncles) came to the US from Mexico and is living with them. I saw him the first time in the Chapel. He seems like he's got a lot of promise as well. We've got the first lesson lined up with him this week.

My BG (blood glucose) numbers are going down. I really hate texting Sister Crippen every BG and I hope that when we take the A1C, we can stop doing that. Would you could send me the red running shoes in the next package, that would be great. As much as I love lifting every day, I need to get some cardio besides basketball once a week. Simply walking all day doesn't burn all those calories from the arroz frijoles and pollo we eat every day.

Also Dad, please find me a SWEET piano arrangement to There Is a Green Hill Far Away. I'm finding time at meetings to play more and more, also, one last request…. a sweet 4 part harmony one too. Love you all and Hope you have a great week!

Love,

-Elder Dial