October 27th, 2009 (Email)

Hello again!
Last week was a good week. I found out something last week that could change the rest of my life. Alright, so during my last interview with President Sexton I asked him if I could go anywhere to get an allergy test. President asked why and I explained my chicken issues and also told him that I'm pretty sure that I've accidentally had chicken on more than one occasion on my mission. I explained the epi-pen and President told me he didn't see any problem with me just eating some of the stuff with the epi-pen close by. I know that President isn't a doctor and I know that what I did was a little rash but that's what I did. Last Tuesday I stopped by Church's Chicken while jogging and I picked up a fried chicken thigh and a biscuit. And then I ate it. And it was good. A day or two later I had a chicken taco from Del Taco and then later I had a chicken sandwich from Burger King. So I'm cured! Awesome!
Daniel Clay, the guy with the three kids, accepted our invite for him to be baptized November 14th! He's really sincere and looks forward to our visits. He makes and sells "therapeutic meditational multi cultral prayer beads" for a living. He's a very interesting character. His son is 8-years-old and Daniel's raised him to live the life of a Nazarene-- so the kid never cuts his hair and he never eats grapes or partakes of anything from the vine. Just like John the Baptist. We're going to see if the son wants to be baptized with his dad. Daniel and his son and two daughters all came to church on Sunday and they came to the ward halloween social the night before. Daniel told us he wants a triple combination so we're going to go get him one today. He told us out of the blue that he wants to have the Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price. And one Sunday in Priesthood when he heard someone say the word "Melchizedek" Daniel got really excited and turned to Elder Harris and said "I know about that! That's important!" And in Sunday school when he was asked what he thought about the Book of Mormon he had us turn to the very last verse in the gospel of John. As you can see this is a golden investigator family. And yesterday Daniel committed to live the Word of Wisdom and he gave us his cigarettes.
The stake president here spoke on Sunday in our ward. His name's President Nunnaly(?) and he gave a good talk about peace and harmony. Every stake president's different. The stake president in Cypress is a lawyer and he always spoke with POWER AND AUTHORITY let me tell you what. The stake president here is very soft spoken and very involved with the missionary effort.
Glad to hear Grandpa's surgery went well and glad to hear Hannah has a good friend. Hope she has fun trick-or-treating on Saturday. Sad to hear about the golf club incident. Still haven't got any letters from anyone but I got an e-mail from Launa and "Daniel" Rodriguez today. Elder Rodriguez told me he's sending me a letter that should get to me soon. He said Jason Patterson got baptized!...and then removed his records...? Don't know the story so maybe we'll see. And Elder Harris saw his first possum a couple days ago in our parking lot. Man those things are ugly.
Have a fantastic week and Happy Halloween!!
Love,
Elder Tyler Lewis