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Well happy week everybody!

First Happy Birthday to my Momma on Saturday. Love ya Momma.
Then Happy B day to my brooo On sunday.
Also Happy Birthday to Amy Thomas today.

Love all You peoples.

Well I hope this letter finds you well and safe.

This week was another week of training and of working hard as we have been doing a lot of finding. This week we were able to have 6 new investigators from our efforts. My new companion or my son really enjoys contacting and finding new people but we are enjoying our time together as we are both learning together.

This week one of the highlights is, I think like Wednesday, we were walking down the street and this girl stops us and tells us that her boss wants to know if we are Jehovah Witness and we say no, but we would like to meet with him, so we follow her to the man's shop were she is working and he is a guy who makes cool African shirts and wear. What else is cool is his name is Seam. Ha! Anyway he doesn't speak really good English because he is from Cote di' Vore and he speaks French. Anyways, we contacted the girl that he sent to go and get us. We gave her a pamphlet and came back the next day and she had read the whole thing and wanted to know more, so we shared with her and told her we would be back the next day to give her a Book of Mormon and when we came the following day she basically screamed as I gave it to her she was so excited. Her name is Dorothy and she is about 19 years old and has been prepared by the Lord. The Lord truly does work in mysterious ways. We are going to meet with her tomorrow.

Also this week we have received a lot of headquarter referrals and have had a chance to meet some awesome people that way. A man named James, who works at a rehabilitation center.  We went there and he told us that he was waiting for us because he had requested a Book of Mormon and we had brought one to him and he was very excited to hear our message about the restoration and some of our beliefs.

Experiences happen like this one day and then the next you have no one to teach so you just have to go finding. Mission is great haha.

I have been studying in the New Testament. One of my favorite scriptures in the New Testament that I have read is:

65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.

66 ¶ From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?

68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

69 And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.

I love this because it shows the simplicity of how the twelve looked at the Savior and how we just need to focus and what we do believe and not on the things that maybe we don't understand at first. Also it asks the question "to whom shall we go?" If we were to no more follow the Savior and turn away from him.... Where would we go?  My simple testimony to all of you is that i know that Jesus Christ is the Savior and Redeemer of the world and came and suffered so we might live with him again.

Also one more thing is today we went to one of the members house in our ward and her house is sooooo nice. (see the last two pictures below, its on the beach)


Love you All...

Elder Paulson

1-Moving day
2-moving day
3- the temple at night
4-our apartment main room
5-just before going to District meeting
6-the view from our members house
7-More awesome views from the members house