Another Good one in Charlie!

6/4/12 The last 6 months have been great and have really flown by, but I can tell you right now the next 6 weeks will be the best of my mission. I really love serving with Elder Syndergaard. We are nearly the same person. He was a river guide on the Salmon River for 4 years and is a big time kayaker. We are not so much the same I guess in that respect, but you can see how I might get along with him. We had a phenomenal week teaching and finding, especially working with Vince.    His girlfriend and her sister have begun siting in on the lessons and are keeping their reading commitments better than him. They once again didn't come to church this week, so after the block we drove down and stopped in on him. We weren't exactly sure if it was the right thing to do, but we did want to him that we cared enough about him to tell him in person that we missed him. As we walked up to the door their screen door blew open and charlene opened their real door literally right as we were to knock on it. It was a beautiful little way of the Lord letting us know, that it was what we needed to do. We talked with him and watched a President Monson's last priesthood general conference talk with them. It was perfect.   My whole time here I have tried to reach this Less active family and we have been able to talk to them 2 or 3 times. But have stopped by over a dozen. Well this last Sunday the father showed up to church and told us that he wants to come back and to have his 3 children baptized. It will be a little while because the bishop wants him active for a few months, but it was wonderful to see him step into the church building and make that decision himself.   Liz, who is the little 9 year old and her family have now been active for 4 months and she is geting baptized in a few weeks. It has been such a testimony of working through Priesthood keys. As a result of the bishops request to have them active their cousins family is now coming to church regularly too. Just from Liz getting baptized it has reactivated 6 other family members.   While tracting in the the downpour this week we met with an Evangelical Preacher who knows quite a bit about the church. We had a nice discussion with him and he was more receptive then you may expect, but we are following up this week, to see how vested he is in finding the truth. We have great faith in the Lord and hope to see some more wonderful things.   Love yall, Elder Dumke 
 This is called a Hooptie, common in West Virginia.