7/21/09

Daniel has been gaining lots of experience while in Middletown. He has found that the people there are not very interested in learning about the gospel and it has been hard to find people to teach. Sometimes this has been pretty frustrating for his companion. Daniel is learning how important it is to choose your attitude and that you might as well have a postive one.

Daniel has meet his new mission president, President Summerhays. He wants to get rid of all the bikes so Daniel will be trying to sell his there rather than shipping it home. They had a chance to go to Hershey and tour the chocolate factory. They only did the free stuff, but said it was nice.

In a recent letter Daniel related the following experience: I was on exchange in the morning and they had an appointment with a preacher so we went there. He was a nice guy. He wanted to show us a movie so we said okay. Turns out the movie was about how the Book of Mormon is wrong. They even included a quote from President Hinckley, but they had twisted it around which was sad. I found the correct quote from the April 2002 conference and they sure had it out of context. The preacher also said you cannot go by feelings as far as gaining a tesitmony! Oh, well.

Daniel has figured out his return date will be June 30, 2010. He is hoping we can return that summer to tour his mission and go see the Hill Cumorah Pageant.