July 28th, 2009 (Email)

Hello!
I just had a stressful dream last night about mowing lawns. For some reason I thought I was responsible for mowing the Tebbs' lawn and that I hadn't cut it for a really really long time. Which would make sense. Anway in my dream I decided to hurry back to mow the Tebbs' lawn before they noticed that I'd neglected it.
I'm glad Hannah liked the Buddhist music box thing. I have another one for me that plays the same song but slower and with a choir of creepy voices.
Dad that's good to hear you're seeing some results from your exercising. Sister Chun and Elder Rada both agree that the trick is to not give up. People who go at weight-loss inconsistantly never see the desired results. Elder Rada says that a good idea is to run a lot in the morning and then not to eat anything for half an hour after the run. Of course drink water though. My weight had been everywhere between 140 and 145 lately. I think it's because I'm inconsistant myself.
We have a new investigator named Hyemi Choi. She's the brother of an amazing convert in the ward named Doug Choi. Doug was tuaght the lessons by Sister Ashton and Sister Choi last winter. He'd read the Book of Mormon twice and had studied tons of stuff about the church for two years before he decided to be baptized. The Choi siblings are very smart people. Hopefully Hyemi will decide to be baptized. We're pretty sure she will someday. We've already tried to invite her of course but she wasn't ready to commit to a date.
Beatrice Allen is still doing amazing. She came to church all by herself on Sunday (the Gonzalez family didn't come with her for some reason. Probably slept in or didn't feel well.) The Piceno family's doing alright too. All three of the Piceno kids came to church on Sunday! We've decided to push Raquel's baptism to August 8th. She was sad that we had to push it back but she's fine now. Whenever she prays she says "Please bless that I may be baptized on the 8th." She's been to church twice and we want to see her come three times before we baptize her since she's young and her mom hasn't been coming to support her. A member from the ward brings the three kids to church and visits them pretty often. It's sad but Elder Rada and I have decided that Anabel, the 15-yr-old sister, is a lot more responsible than her mother. That's all I'll say about that. Anabel supports her siblings and Raquel's really excited to be baptized.
Oh I forgot to tell you last week. During my interview with President Sexton I asked him how Elder Kemp's doing. He said he's doing great and his new companion's Elder Bliss! That's pretty funny. Elder Kemp and I have the same follow-up trainer.
By the way my shirt size is definitely 15.
This week we knocked a lot and walked a lot and it was pretty hot. I've been drinking LOTS of water. Well, sounds like thing are more or less fine and dandy back in the top of the mountains. Things are pretty good here too. Have a great week and talk to you soon!
Love,Elder Tyler Lewis