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Hey!
We have a golden investigator right now. It’s the guy that I told you about, Big. I came to find out that his name isn't really Big...It's Tig. I have been saying it wrong! We took a member to help us teach him and she asked him what his name was and he said very clearly that his name was Tig. I felt kind of dumb when I found out it wasn’t Big...But anyways, the reason why he is so golden is because we have only been teaching him for 2 weeks and he has already read all the way till Alma chapter 5! He says he takes the Book of Mormon with him everywhere he goes and whenever he has free time, he opens it and reads it. It's amazing! I have never met anyone who was so determined to read! It makes teaching him way easy because the stuff we teach, he already kind of knows about it! The other day we taught him about repentance and how we can be forgiven of our sins and at first he was a little worried. He was excited about the idea of being able to be forgiven of the things that he has done but he is worried that he might sin again and on his own, he won’t have enough strength. So we shared Alma 26:12 with him and told him if he places his trust in God, he won’t have anything to worry about! So I asked him if he could do it and with a smile on his face he said, "Yeah, I can do it." We left the appointment and left the commitment to start repenting of his sins and to continue that pattern of repentance throughout all of his life. He was excited to start!
Yesterday, we had a dinner appointment at the Bishop's house and after it was over and we were walking home, we got a call from Tig. He said he had a concern that he wanted to talk about. I said ok, let’s talk! He said he sinned and he felt bad. He went on and told me what he did and what it was was he had lied to someone at work and felt guilty. So I asked him what he felt he should do and he said, "Well I prayed to God and told him I felt bad and I asked for forgiveness." I said, "ok good, what else do you think you should do?" "Well, I was thinking I need to go and apologized to the person and try and fix what I did." He said. I told him that was exactly right! He then thanked me for helping him and then hung up. I was way impressed with him! He had done something as little as a lie and felt terrible about it and knew he had to repent of it so he called us to make sure he was going to do it right. I couldn't stop smiling for the rest of the night! He has definitely been prepared to receive the Gospel and he was just waiting for us to walk up and talk to him. He came to church last Sunday and he said he felt really good when he came. He loved that everyone seemed to be best friends with each other and just a big family. He said he is excited to get to know everyone and be a part of it! These are the type of people that make every second of the hours we spend inviting and getting rejected worth it. These are the type of people that make any thoughts of wanting to be anywhere else disappears!
Well I got to go. I love you guys!

Steve