Elder Adam Walker:

I went to the doctor for my foot yesterday, and everything is good. So no worries on that. I might have to do somethings when I get home but he said I should be able to finish my mission fine. The doctor was way cool he was trying to work with me so I could keep working, he is not LDS but he was really cool about everything.

We have had two pretty neat things happen this week, 1 involves finding a new family to teach and the other involves the Cops, haha no worries it wasn't too bad. First off we were out tracking on Saturday and it was freezing cold, no one was letting us in, but we just kept going. We tracked for about 6 hours and pretty much no luck, and then we knock on this one door, a man comes to the door and he says do you want to come in and warm up? We said yes of course, that is the easiest way to get in a door I suppose. We sat down and talked to him for a while, then we started talking about the Restoration a little bit and the Book of Mormon and he asked a bunch of questions that he had been wondering about our church, some misconceptions that he has had. Well come to find out he is a Doctor at the Local Community Doctors office and he is from Oregon. One of the members sees him a lot because his health is not very good. Well this certain Doctor I guess gave the member a piece of Anti Literature, a anti movie about a bunch of stuff. The member ended up taking it back to him when he found out what it was and tried his best to explain the things in the movie. Well that was a year ago and this doctor has just left his current church because of various reasons and is very interested in what we have to say, and what we really believe and teach, so he is open. We were all smiles there. Its nice to teach people who can think on a little higher level than Welfare :) I am exited to see him again, he has 6 people in his family so we will see what happens with him and his family.

The Second is pretty good as well it happened yesterday when I was on exchanges with Elder Chin. He came up here and we went out to see the Niece family that we have been teaching, it is the Family of 7 that is getting baptized March 20th. Well where they live really is out in the middle of no where and the only way we can get down to their house right now with all the snow is to drive as far as we can in our car then hike in the rest of the way. Usually we have to walk about a half mile to get down to where their house is. Well we went as far as we could and then we turned our car around, and just sat there for a second. We had called them and they were not even home from school yet and the parents were out a ways on the main road waiting for them to get off the Bus. Well all the sudden this man starts coming towards us on his tractor. So I pulled over as far as I could so that he could get around easily on the road. Well he stops his tractor right next to where we were at at just starts freaking out on us, these were his exact words, "You got to leave! This is my land, and my cows, and this is your car, LEAVE!" (haha pretty good statement to say huh? Dang Rednecks) I said I was sorry and we didn't mean any harm and that we would go park it out at the nearby church. He told us to leave again, He was drunk as a skunk, No big deal though, he gets back on his tractor and rudely motions to us to come on. We followed him out and then we met up with the Nieces at the near by Baptist Church, about 2 miles from their house, and we told them what had happened. They said he is a jerk and he does dumb stuff like this all the time, he just drinks too much, and the funny thing is that he doesn't even own the land. They have a Polaris Ranger to get in and out of their house right now, so they said they would just take us down in on that and then bring us back out when we were done. By this time the bus comes and drops their kids off so we all load up on the Ranger to go down to their house, there is nine of us on this thing haha when we get to the gate this man and one of his sons comes out and starts cussing at all of us and flipping us off, we flipped the Ranger around and we went back to the church and they started chasing us down the road, they quit after we got so far away, but they decided that the best thing to do was just to call the cops, and let them take care of it. Well a little time passes and 1 cop comes, he talks to us and asks us what is up, and he says that he will go talk to him. Soon after that a West Virginia State trooper comes, a couple minutes after that the Monroe County Sheriff comes and then a few minutes after that, the K-9 unit shows up. haha it was a mess, we had no clue what was going on but they had the dogs out of the car, we could see through the trees from where we were at but we really couldn't see what was happening. All this time there are 5 kids freezing out side, and the heater in their van that they have to park at this church is broken so we turn on our car and they are sitting in there trying to get warm. The cops ended up taking care of everything and told him he had better stop. They are going to get a restraining order put on the man from the family we are teaching just to keep them safe. They said it has all been getting worse since we have been coming and seeing them, they don't like the Mormons too much. haha but its not phasing them, is just making them stronger. So its been a pretty crazy week already, but its been a good one.

The family that was supposed to get baptized this weekend has been put off for a few weeks, they just are not quite ready yet. They are still doing well, Coffee is just a hold up that is going to put them back a few weeks. Transfers are this next week and there is a good chance that I am going to be transferred (not guaranteed, but very likely) So I might not be here for it now. So that will kind of be a bummer but oh well. We have been doing a lot of tracking lately, we have a ton of people to follow up with so we have been pretty blessed. Little by little things are coming along well. One of the Part Member families that has been coming came again this last week, this is 4 weeks in a row now! So we are happy about that, hopefully she will just accept to be baptized now. I think she will, it might just be a little more time. The doctor that we are teaching is coming along well also, we saw him on Saturday and he had a whole bunch of anti stuff that we had to clear up, it took quite a while, but he has come one step closer now. It was a great lesson, lots of clearing up but also a lot of testimony bearing.
Overall its been a great week though.

3-9-2010
It has got up to 70 a few days this last week its been pretty nice. Last Tuesday we washed our car and the members that we live by cars. It was really nice even though I got a little sunburned cause my arms haven't seen too much sun in the last 4 months or so. Its been raining here the last 3 or 4 days and it has melted all the snow. It has caused a huge problem with flooding. There have been a lot of mud slides as well. Some of the roads we have to go on have just been washed away and there is just a small spot that you can drive by on. Kind of a mess! Things are starting to get green FINALLY again, all the brown is disappearing. Its slowly changing

Elder Cade Casper:

So my new email address (because they are changin systems) is cade.casper@myldsmail.net . This week went very well. The whole Kasbee family came to church! We had to go and wake them up at 8:30 because we didn't think that they remembered about daylight savings time, and they all came. Sis. Kasbee really doesn't like church because she knows she's not doing what she needs to be, but we were very glad to see them all there. Ryan and Blake are scheduled to be baptized on April 3rd, yep, best birthday ever: A session of conference, then a baptism, then the next session, then the priesthood. Yep, that would be sweet. They wouldn't be confirmed until the 10th though, and either Elder Lee or I won't be here. It will be interesting to see if I stay or go. We didn't make too much contact with our other investigators so that was a bummer. Al and Molly are doing ok, their daughter got sick and I don't think they have been reading or anything. They keep saying they really want to come to church so we can't give up on them. We had some good lessons with some less active members. Chris Meyers is a 33 year old R.M. that goes to Med school. He is lazy and knows he needs to come back, but says he doesn't feel anything even when he was living the gospel and coming to church. But, he said he is willing to meet with the bishop. Other less active members said they were coming to church and never showed. We have some lessons with less actives that active members are coming with us to, that should be really good. I don't know if I ever told you about the Bittner family. They were just reactivated and are so solid. Bro Bittner was a hard core biker that has a ton of tattoos all up to his neck. It's really cool to see him with a shirt and tie on. He is really excited about going to see less actives and telling them his story, so we are making plans for that. Anyway, I better jet. Thank you for all you do. I love you both and am thankful you are being blessed for you service in the temple. Keep working at it I know it will come.

CADE