Hello my wondeful Famerrrry............... thats asian for Family!

Holly cow this past week has been one of the best weeks of my whole life......mission life......great life.......happy life.......Yay! :) whats life, how do we live, is living as easy as just breathing, what life have we had to live to be able to live the life we are living life with??????? That reminds me of some craziness that happened this past week and its a long story but i will tie it back to life. So last week on Wednesday Elder Haderlie and i biked downtown at 9:07 AM to help one of our recent converts move some of his elderly fathers stuff to his lodge home and so we were downtown much earlier than we normally are. Well we finished with that and we started to bike home and while on the way we looked over and we saw a young man waiting at a bus stop and Elder Haderlie was like, "Hey, we know him" and i took a second look and was like "yeah, we do know him". It was a less active member from the Young Single adult ward who lives in our boundries and so we biked over and we started to say hi and we asked him whats up and he just looked at us and said "yeah im just waiting for the bus so that i can go to my uncels house and shoot myself." He had plans to kill himself that day. so we did not let him out of our sight, we bused with him to his uncles house in Hampton and His uncle threw down on him and his 'crap'. that man was so bold and profound, it was like there was absolutly no argument with him. This young man's main reason to kill himself was that he said that he knew that he was a good person and he refused to live in a world that was so evil and corrupt. But his uncle just threw out "if you kill yourself then all you gonna do is sink yourself right down to Hell" he threw down in the funniest Southern way. "all you gots to do in dis life is live and survive and hope to God that he will make a man out of yourself so that you can help others". So we bused back to Newport with him and we walked him home and then we bought him a burger at Bronx Deli and we stayed with him for another hour. he showed me some of his raps, he goes to this recording studio here in Newport News and he records his rapps and they are so good. they are clean too. One morning i woke up and i had one of them stuck in my head. He is awesome, and that was partly why we were so scared for him, he is a great guy and he has so much to live for but he was caught on an idea. Well he was okay, we stayed with him until we knew that he was okay and we went about teaching other people that day, we acctualy taught 8 people on Wednesday, that day was a very very good day! I just had the best feeling in the world come over me that i was in the exact spot doing exactally what God wanted me to do in the very momment that i was needed and a life was saved! What a wonderful Feeling! :) So that young man came to church with us on Sunday, a huge step for him, and while we were in Gospel Doctrine class we were learning about our heavenly Family and he purposed a question "what can a man learn that will take him a whole lifetime?"! and the answer came in the lesson "the biggest thing we can learn here in this life is how it is that we will live Eternally" and then one of his questions was "what else is it that i need to learn here in life?" now this young man is convinced that he is a very very good person and i agree that he is a great guy and that he makes many good choices but he feels that he has learned all that he needs to learn and he was ready to move on to the next world. But then in the lesson he just Exclaimed "I get it!!" i am here living my life right now with the knowledge i have and my personallity for one purpose, and that is to teach others" it was so good to hear him say that! so now he is determined to spread the Gospel and teach those that are less fortunate than he! i am so happy for him and for his Life. There you go, Life!

Another Crazy experiences was, well first some crazy news. i am in a trio now! Elder Bauman who was serving in Hampton is now here with Elder Haderlie and I. his companion who is a 19 year old E-5 in the military, almost unheard of, was called back to active duty so Elder Bauman needed someone to be with so now he is with us! YAY! i like Elder Bauman. so the experience! i was on exchange with Elder Bauman in Hampton on Thursday and Friday. well friday morning we get a call from the mission office telling us that there was a brother sick in the hospital from Washington who is terminaly ill and he wants a blessing. so we biked over to the hospital in 23 degree wheather and we gave this man a blessing. his wife told us that all they wanted was for him to receive enought strength to travel back home to Washington, she wasnt expecting a total healing just help. so we gave him the blessing and it was a wondeful blessing and then not 20 second later the Doctor comes in and tell them that all of his tests just came back and he has stabalized enough to merrit a release in the next 20 minutes. The wife couldnt help but cry into her husbands sholder and she told us "now try and tell me that Blessings dont work"! it was a wonderful ecperience! :)

I have one more thing to report on this past week! We had a baptism on Saturday! :) i dont remember if i told you that we had one coming up here soon but His name is Jay and he was Baptized on Saturday! It was such a great service. we have an elderly man here with an incredible story who bore his testimony and it made me cry, we have a brother here who was acctualy a high ranking member of the Bloods on the east coast that goes all the way up to Jersey, his name is Brother Leak, and he gave a talk on the Holy Ghost and it was so inspiring. his story is so crazy and he could relate to Jay really well and he brought in the spirit so strongly! yeah, that was a great Baptism! I am so happy to have been a part of it! :)

So that was my week! it was a great week! a week full of many great things and many

amazing experiences! i am in a trio now and it snowed yesterday and the whole state was shut down and i may have helped save a man from dying last week and i got to see another baptism and i threw my companion out a window and i helped like 40 people move and My Pets Heads Are Falling Off!! yeah, it was a good Week! :)

I love you all so so so so so much! i miss you guys! i hope you have a very good week and i hope that you see many miricles in the coming days! :)

With love and care from your Missionary Brother and Son!

Elder Anthony Zonts