Hey family,




Ya we have a lot of good stuff happening here. Gestina's baptism is completly planned out now, its for the 23rd of April. She had her interview with the zone leaders and passed with flying colors (is that how that saying goes? what does that even mean?).

Tina was the one who was ready to be baptized...and now she has a date for May 14th! Shes really excited and tells everyone she meets, which is a complete 180 from where she was. Her friend from BYU-I is coming to baptize and confirm her. Shes just like Gestina, solid as a rock, made out of titanium. They will both be great relief society presidents some day, they just don't know it yet.

Kyle is still doing great too. We went over the Plan of Salvation with him last Tuesday and he said at least twice "wait hold on, you just blew my mind" :) Yes he does know the bible pretty well Dad, they use the king James version too, so at least hes comfortable with scripture language. The things he was most excited about learning the truth about were how Adam and Eves fall was a neccesary step in Gods plan, not a mistake, and the Spirit Prison. He liked how people can hear the Gospel in Spirit, especially when they never heard it here. We explained thats why family history is so important, so that we can find those people, which was especially interesting to him because thats what got him into taking the lessons in the first place. You can see the puzzle pieces fitting together in his head, its an awesome thing to be a missionary. Between our last last lesson and that one he had re-read 1st and 2nd Nephi and also 3rd Nephi :O and this time he had highlighted things and written down questions he had.

We're really happy with these 3. We just are having a really hard time finding more :) It seems like they are either ridiculously prepared or not at all. Not complaining though, I like rediculouly prapared just fine.

Last night we had a classical concert at the 1st Ward building. There are two retired world traveling musicians in the ward. All the pieces were really good, but more importantly there were a TON of non-members there. It was almost 50-50 members to non. Now if we could only do that for normal church services :)

The weather here is...Wisconsin-like, which is to be expected since we're in Wisconsin. Today the high is 43 and on thursday we're expecting more snow. BUT the trees are very very slowly starting to bloom, at least some are. Judging by how many dead plants there are around here, when everything blooms again its going to look beautiful.

This morning we got a referal from Salt Lake from a guy who is apparently Atheist and is "very interested in converting from atheism and joining the church." He also doesn't want any phone calls, but for us to come over instead. It could either be a trap or a sincere person in search of God. You never know in WI, and especially in Madison (Mad-town). I'll tell you how it went next time. It'll be kinda like a cliffhanger in a book or show: Next time on 'Elder Julian and the adventures in the Frozen North'. Will Elder Julian be kidnapped and held for randsom by a mob of crazy anti-religionists?!?! Or will golden inv. #4 be found?!?! Tune in next time for the answer. Ya Mom maybe you shouldn't read that last part. O wait, if your reading this you must've already read that.

Thanks for getting the whole plaque thing done, it looks good, minus the blurriness. Hope it wasn't an after shock from the earthquake :)

Enjoy the blossoms and have a great week!

Love