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Sunday, July 15, 2012

7/9/12 Email

Well, this last week was an odd one. Not a whole lot exciting happened. There was a good bit of rain and storms again, which has at least cooled things down a bit. I say this week was odd because the results were much different than our plans. During our planning for the week, we had decided to really focus on strengthening the members of the viet branch and to focus on finding and teaching investigators in the english area that we have. We made a lot of plans and efforts to meet with recent converts and less-active members in the branch. Though as it turned out, we didn't end up meeting with any. And to add to that, we didn't end up teaching any investigators in the english area. That was really odd, and we're not entirely sure how that happened.

We did find a very nice viet family the other day. We were going through Sugar Land (higher wealth area) which would normally mean a little more rejection and a little less success. But as things go, one of the first few houses that we came to we met a nice viet man that talked to us for a moment then invited us right inside. He was pretty in awe that we spoke viet (we are kinda used to that by now). He gave us some water and we talked for a bit. Eventually his wife joined us. They are both Catholic, though he was Buddhist (he converted to Catholicism to marry her). We had a good discussion and they wanted to read the Book of Mormon.

This week we will have a special zone conference with the Saylins. They go home next week. So next week we will have another special zone conference and we will meet President and Sister Ashton and family. Things are certainly going to be interesting these next couple of weeks as we make the transition.

Hope you all enjoyed your holiday! Have a great week!

Love,
Elder Phong Manhardt

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