Hey everyone, second week out already. So Far this has been really super awesome. My companion is a super awesome guy, we have our disagreements but overall he is a really rock awesome righteous dude (I don't really talk like that). No we are having a fantastic time here, so many of the people that we are teaching and finding are awesome as well there are alot of not so awesome people. I scared a little old lady half to death the other day, I knocked on her door and it was getting fairly late and she opened it up a crack and yelled at me telling me to get back, she said that she didn't know who I was. I told her that I had a message about Jesus Christ, She told me to just get back again. So I did, then I told her again that I had a message about Jesus Christ, then she said good for you and slammed the door. I wonder why she even opened the door. It was really funny, as well I am getting better at contacting people on the street. We went to talk to some black kids on the street and at first they weren't talking to me and my companion, but then they began asking us every gospel question in the world that you can imagine. The one kid asked how do we know that there is a god. I asked him, Is there good and evil. He said yes. Then I told him if God didn't exist then there would be no good or evil. He thought about it for a minute and then realized that there was a God. We told them so much about where we came from and where we are going. I taught them that through the Fall of Adam and Eve that it was necessary for Christ to perform his atonement. They actually understood what we were telling them it was awesome, but the cool part was, another kid came up and was completely interested in finding out if the book of mormon was true and he said he would pray about it. His name is James he is 16 years old and he plays football for Hackensack High School. We have so many incredible people that we are teaching right now. We are teaching Pedro and Zuli, Pedro is progressing really really well, he has a baptismal date which is fantastic. Also we are teaching Irene, she is from Kenya and is absolutely incredible I love talking with her, she told us that if this church were true should would be baptised and join it. Also we are teaching Jean Muse who told us that she has always wanted to be baptised be immersion and she told us that the spirit we bring and the things we say are the very first time she has felt and heard them. She will probably get baptised. As well we are teaching Cheryl and her son Taylor, they are both awesome people she knows its true we just need to work with her. We have decided that every person that we teach and meet with that we are going to mention baptism, we won't push it too hard but we will mention baptism. The people here in New Jersey are very very interesting people, there are so many different kinds of people there is 13 times the national average of people per square mile here. I am so excited to continue teaching, I am missing home quite a bit. Not so much that it is keeping me from doing my work, but I am definately missing home. I am already a little trunkie, not to have you worry I am not bad, but I am missing home. But as I work harder I get less and less that way. I love you so much. I am having an amazing time. The drivers here by the way are extemely aggressive, therefore I may be fairly aggressive when I come home in my driving. The pictures I sent you are of my companion (elder Sorenson), my bed, and my desk. I am so excited for the coming weeks, I am learning spanish slowly but surely, I can understand like 40% of conversations and that number is rising. My ability to speak spanish however is like 3% so I will continue to get better.
Elder Tim Flink
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