Dear Family

       Yea we have had some disappointments this week. This one 18 year old kid that was supposed to get baptized on the 17th I guess is kind of doubting the Book of Mormon, and he has read the whole thing so that just seems impossible to me. We havent met with him for 2 weeks though because he has been biking and stuff but now he is back and we will try to straighten him up and get him back on that narrow path. Also this black lady that was going to get baptized has disappeared!!! haha She wont answer our calls or anything. She was pretty crazy not going to lie, but she seemed like she understood everything. Maybe she just needs some time I dont know. We have found a couple new investigators last week so all is well. Oh and the Family we are teaching, the parents went to vegas for a couple of weeks so we wont see them for awhile. She said that she would read the BOM on the way though so hopefully she does.

        Oh and at the Mormon handcart park they dont really show you anything. You just walk through and read some things on these plaques. They show how many people died there and stuff and how many were gathered at a certain spot. Perty Neat. It was great day for Neature thats for sure:) ha miss that video. We also had a baptism. He is a way cool guy. Ha 2 hours later he got married....It definitely wasnt one of those fairytale weddings haha. But they seemed happy and ready to start life and all that great stuff.

          Well all is going great here. Not a lot of exciting things coming up this week, just a lot of work:) Good luck with harvest. Did our field do good this year? ha I bet it did. Love you all!!!!!!!! Thanks for everything. Love Elder Polatis

Hi Family!!!

     Well the week has been great!! Finally got to go to the Nauvoo Pageant!! It was way cool. They put a ton of work into that. Ha I just loved how it taught like the restoration and everything. It is a great idea of spreading the gospel. There are like referral cards everywhere that people can fill out. Sadly in our area, we only got one referral from the pageant. He wasnt there when we tried to contact him, but I guess he is interested and wants a restoration DVD, so we'll make sure and get it to him this week. But yea we rode down with these older people. They arent a couple and i guess are just really good friends. The grandma was funny. She made us a lunch and everything and just chatted with us the whole way down there. I was talking to the member that is friends with them and she said that this lady offered to take us. They are both Catholic, but the lady really liked the play. We are going to go to her apartment some time this week. She says that she isnt looking to change, but she was crying during the pageant so I think we could change that. The Nauvoo Temple is great though. Very cool Temple. I think that in this mission that you actually get to go once every 6 months, so its about that time for me,so i will probably go in the next couple weeks. Gosh I'm out of time on this computer so i will have to sign back in so I will just send this real quick.