New fun!

This week has been a pretty successful week. Last P-day we played some more ball, it was pretty intense and fun haha we had 8 people this time, so it got pretty crazy. Tuesday was awesome. Well Wednesday we pretty crazy, we were tracting by some "projects" called GWC homes, and there is a club right by it. We heard some gun shots and later on that week we found out a kid had got kicked out of the club for trying to start a fight, so he went out and got his gun, and started firing about 12 rounds into the club, he hit 8 people, but only one died luckily, but unfortunately it was his sister he hit and killed. So that was sad, there was three people shot and killed all through this week though in Selma, it's crazy how violent this place is, for the size of the city, it has the 3rd highest murder rate in the country. So yeah.. Wednesday was nuts haha. Well Thursday wasnt good, all our appointments fell through, and we only found 3 lessons to teach the whole day. But once again we made up for it on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. All together we taught 18 lessons in those three days, committed five to baptism, and found four new investigators, so once again, our faith was tested and proven strong :) Well Sunday was AWESOME! We went to stake conference in Montgomery, and I got to see all the missionaries in the zone who I was close with in the MTC, like Elder Anderson and Craner. Thats the sad part about the areas we are in though, is we have to really be alert, because the girls do anything to get you attention, and I mean ANYTHING. So it's amazing to see how strong the spirit works, when I'm keeping myself aligned with heavenly fathers commandments. Well back to stake conference, it was really good. President and Sister Holzapfel are so amazing, especially President. His talks are honestly like baptist preachers, he is up there pounding, and speaking so boldly haha but it's incredible to see how much he knows with being an historian and stuff, just him teaching at BYU makes me like it just a LITTLE bit more haha. So yeah, that's about all that has happened this week. As far as waking up early, yes its been a habit for a while now. It's not that it's hard to get up or anything, it just takes me like 5 or 10 to fully wake up. I've decided though, that i wasted A TON of time sleeping haha but i figure now I have eternity to rest, why not get everything done while I can :). Well you can send whatever you want for halloween haha doesnt matter to me :) Send some stuff for Elder Fat too :) Well I love you guys, I know this church is true. I know that Christ is my savior and redeemer, and that he lives. Keep on exercising yourselves spiritually, as well as physically. Your body is a temple for you spirit, so keep it healthy and strong, just as we would any of the temples on earth today. I love you so much, keep up the good work and pray for me. I miss you guys a lot, but not enough to come home haha sorry. Well until next week.

Love, Peace, and Blessings,

Alofa ia te oe, Elder Tolman

Awh family, another p-day :)

Well things went great this week. My knee is feeling quite nice now :) Elder Fatiau did not get your package, but I'm sure he will today. But don't worry about the small box haha he really gets excited over the smallest things now. To answer your question though, Yes his family are members, and neither of us know why they don't write him. No, he didnt go home for his mom's funeral, Elder Fatiau said he gets over things really fast, so he said it was hard for 3 days, then he went back to work with full purpose of heart :) He's an amazing trainer. Well yeah, the city Camden is awesome, we have had a lot of strong investigators there, we just don't get to go there a lot because of the distance. Well this week was pretty crazy, i already wrote about his story in mom and dad's email and im running out of time so i'll give you the short version, but you have to go read it on there. So we are across the street and hear gun shots haha, so we just think nothing of it cause we hear it all the time. We find out later that day that some kid got kicked out of the club, started firing randomly into it, and out of all the people he hit, he hit and killed his sister, CRAZY I KNOW! Thats awesome about snowbasin, I miss that place so much, especially the mountains! Tell the pace's they will have to do that letter writing thingy more often haha that honestly made my day. Well thats sad to here about the play. It's amazing to see how in just a couple of months, i've began to see the illusions that satan comes up with, to change our standard just little by little, and do lead us further and further from the gospel. Morality of women, the repect men have for them and the things men do that are right, begin to slowly twist and transform, until Satan has us in his snare. It makes me sick to my stomach so see this, but on the other hand so thankful that i have the gospel and have come to the realization of this to be able to withstand it in any aspect or form it comes in. Well keep me update on everything, I LOVE to hear about life :) Yes you can send me any type of picture you want, through email or mail. :) so send me this picture of grant haha. Keep on keepin on. I love you guys more than you could ever know, and so does our eternal father in heaven. Pray to him, and thank him daily for you blessing. Pray for me, as I always do for you. Your the greatest family in the whole world, I couldn't have asked for better people to spend eternity with. Tell my friends i love them so much, and that I continue to think about them and pray for them. I hope their lives are going great, and that they are continuing to stand as a witness for our heavenly father in everything they do. Until next time.