Letter - May 6, 2008

Hello everyone!!! It was great to hear from everyone this week. Thank you again for your emails. It makes my week so much better when i hear from you guys. I love every single one of you so much. I got one of the packages this week and i loved it. The reese's are almost gone but they have been delicious as well as the starburst. Thank you mom. Also i hope you had a good birthday. I thought about you all day on Saturday. I love you mom.

So i was glad to hear you got my letter. I am suprised it got there so fast. I hope you liked the pictures. They were mostly all from the MTC.

As for the work this week. It went pretty well. ALOT of tracting and finding. We found this Black guy from Kenya and he seems like he wants to know more and he has a lot of questions. We also found this one lady named Janice. We just tracted into her and we stopped by yesterday to follow up on her reading of the plan of salvation pamphlet and she really enjoyed it. She invited us in and we taught her about the Restoration and left her with the Book of Mormon to read. It was a great lesson and when we asked if we could leave the Book of Mormon with her she said o please yes. She is very excited and me and Elder Brower are very optomistic about her getting baptized. So i am hoping those go through as well as this other lady who has been taught everything but just doesnt want to be baptized. We are helping her and we have set the date for May 24th. I am really hoping it happens because if that happens it will be a very good thing for her in her life. She doesnt feel like she can give certain things up but we told her that she can and it will be so much easier once she is baptized. That is about what we have done this week. I almost got attacked by a couple of pit bulls this week. That was kinda scary. The work in Swindon is tough. People are not very receptive to the Gospel but we continue to have a positive attitude and we know that only the Lord can help us and direct us. He knows his children and he knows who is prepared for the gospel. We continue to have faith and we know that we can have success in Swindon. I love this work. This work truly is amazing. There really is no greater work than missionary work. I still miss you guys alot and i want you guys to know that i am totally focused on the work. I know what i have to do and i am working as hard as i can. This church is so true and i love it so much. True happiness only comes through the gospel of Jesus Christ. I am so happy right now and i have come to a greater knowledge of how important this gospel is to people. Thank you for all of your support.

As for the sports world. Why in the world do the Jazz have such a hard time against the Lakers!!!! It is so frustrating. Tell harpring to break Kobes fingers more so that he wont be able to play. I cant believe we didnt shoot that well. O well we will win both games in Salt Lake and we will win the series. I have confidence in the Jazz. Also thanks for the Eastern Conference update. Im still putting my money on the Celtics. (Even though i want Lebron.) I cant believe Avery Johnson got fired and i cant believe that the Suns are going to fire their coach. He is an awesome coach. That is crazy. But also update me on the Yankees. I want to know how they are doing as well. All these updates dont distract me so dont worry. So please keep me updated.

I shop at a store named Tesco. It is just a little grocery store and there isnt very many good things there. I have been eating so many peanut butter sandwiches it is crazy. I still dont think i have gained any weight though. haha. We also have a washer in our flat so we can do our wash whenever we want. We dont have a dryer so we have to hang dry everything. Its kind of annoying but o well. Thanks again for all the letters and emails. I love them. They really do help me so much. Continue to send them and i will write you back.

I love and miss all you guys. Missionary work is truly amazing. I love it. The gospel of Jesus Christ is so true. There is no question about it. I love everything about it. Thank you for all your
support. I love all of you guys.

Love Elder Sam Rudd