April 22, 2013 - Davenport

Dear Family:

Well it has been a very interesting week in Davenport.  For about 3 days it was raining and there was thunder and the result being the flood of the mississippi river.  It went up about 2 or 3 streets from the river front.  On the last day it rained we drove past all the parks in the area and all of them that had lakes were buried in water.  Creeks were also flooded and because of that many basements were flooded.  But the rain has stopped and it has warmed up a little bit.  But it sounds like we will be getting some more rain and wind and all that stuff.  They say that in Iowa every time you blink the weather changes.  That is totally true.  I think I may have seen it gone through all for seasons in the past few weeks.  It was warm, then it got cold, then it snowed a little bit, then it warmed up and there was rain, now it will be humid for a little while.  I am not in Utah anymore.

Well the work is going great.  Our baptism that was going to happen this weekend failed her baptism interview.  It is a little sad but we are not giving up on her.  She didnt fail the worthiness part just the lessons learned part.  So we will set a date with her to be baptized in June.  We did get a new investigator met this past week.  He was being taught by first ward elders but they found out he was in our area so they handed him over.  He is a way solid guy and wants to get baptized.  The sisters in Bettendorf found someone in our area that they taught once.  And this morning we talked to a lady that is not happy with her church so we said that we can help her.  The work is truly speeding a long in Davenport Iowa.  We will be getting another set of missionaries in our district this week so that is good.  We will be getting around 38 new missionaries this week.  about 11 or 12 will be missionaries waiting to go to San Paulo and one to I think Australia.  Oh and yesterday morning before going to church we went to visit a Baptist church to see how they worship.  We were the only white people in the building and there was a lot of praising.  It was a good experience thought.

Well that is all I have to report on.  Love you all and I love sharing this Gospel.  This is the true church!

Sincerely;
Elder Spencer Ariotti