March 1, 2011 - Surprise

i have a surprise for you..... guess who shaved his head :P I'll attach a picture for ya to cry over. but this week has been really fun. elder whitby and I have a goal of twelve baptisms this month and this week we found enough investigators that are progressing that it looks like we are going to accomplish our goal. we went back to our apartment to grab some stuff and were pleasently surprised, our landlord laid down all new carpet and cleaned the majority of our apartment. he really wants us to move back in but it still smells kinda funny in there. we also went out and blitzed the sisters area in morgan, funny story. elder weiland and i were looking for this address and it was up this really steep snow covered dirt road, we got about half way up and we couldnt go any further (stupid front wheel drive malibu's) so i tried backing up and gunning it up the hill...... no go. so we decided to back down the hill slowly. i slid into a snow bank and my back wheels got stuck...... elder weiland had the bright idea of putting the car in reverse and turning the wheels to the left and gunning the engine to swing the front end around. the hard part is we were on the side of a cliff and elder weiland was on the side of the cliff.... i guess to stop me from falling off.... idk how he was going to stop 2k pounds tho. but we made it safe and sound. something spiritual i learned this week was the importance of prayer. elder whitby and i were going to go teach this 16yr old girl for the first time and when we got there i felt like we needed to prayer before we went into the lesson. she excepted a date to be baptized on march 19th. afterwards in a different lesson i thought about what were supposed to pray about.... and i found in what we left our investigator paula to read in alma 34:17-27. it says that we have to pray over all we have and when we cant pray we should have a prayer in our hearts. love ya -ty herring picture:from left to rightweiland, me, bevans, and whitby -- Elder Tyler Herring2133 Washington Blvd.Ogden, Utah 84401