June 8

And so I write about another rough week. We lost a couple investigators and honestly I think we are down to none again. Our boy Alex was on his way to our lesson, overdosed and was sent to the hospital. He literally went unconscious. His body was in an extreme withdrawal and took all he could and overdosed horribly. I truly wish we could help him, but when his mother doesn't support him it is just as hard to break a habit.

Dudi has an internship and we must wait 3 more months. He is way too busy.

Naeem our pal who got thrown off a building actually is a recent convert. He lives in a thing called a camp where a large building holds many refugees. Most are Arabic which makes it harder to go to church. So this man totally blackmailed his entire camp with photos of how horrible and nasty it is. The employees that work there and many who live there don't clean up after themselves. For example the cooking stoves is so covered with rotten food and grease you can't see the cooking pallets. The floor of the showers are mud, and the fridge is covered with rotten food as well as the sinks. He is working with red Cross America and this older rough American came over and totally whipped them all. Naeem now has the opportunity to live with his Australian friend and will be coming to church. No neighbors to worry about anymore.

We just got bikes for our area, but one seat is broken. It either leans up or down . Really uncomfortable.

There are now literally more sister missionaries than elders lol. The mtc just got a new load of missionaries. I email my teacher brother penfold. He is so cool and told me he is teaching 28 sister missionaries and 9 elders who are going to Germany. I noticed that there as well, but this is quite different before. I must say the sister missionaries have more of an effect than we do, but it only makes us elders try harder. It is really awesome to have them here.

I think we met 3 more Muhammad's today. They are the type that only want to learn about it but not convert. It is so unusual for them to hear of a religion other than Muslim so they are really interested, but they are too afraid to change their ideas and most of them are in the same situation I am in kinda. They were born in the Muslim faith and they don't want to hurt their parents, but they also want to meet with us as friends. Unfortunately that is not our job so we can't really do that. Many of them are wonderful people, but there are always the ones that threaten to kill the ones that convert. As I said in the last email before, their goal is to convert the whole world and when someone falls away that totally destroys their goal.

We are going to see Pooyan get baptized this Saturday. So exciting to see him. He always makes my day.

Rough week but working hard. I love our President here and is always giving me good advice. We are getting a really young mission president and he is bringing his whole family there. His kids are 6 12 and 14. Extremely young and I am excited to see him.

Love you guys. You are the best. No pictures this week.

Elder Monroe