Oregon is beautiful

The work is slowly starting to increase. It is very hard and time consuming we really do go from 6:15- 9:15-30sh every day ALL DAY. We are going on a hike today, apparently a trail here or somewhere in Oregon has the garden of Dden from the movie in the temple. So that's pretty cool. This week I asked someone to be baptized. It was sweet, he said yes so I committed him to Nov. 6. we will see. It is very hard for people to keep commitments. It's very hard for people to come to church and we all know that they can't be baptized if they don't come to church. It's hard because soo many people seem interested and seem so gun- ho about it. Then the next time we visit they are never home or don't answer. It is very sad.. I'm glad that we are in the Spanish area because to be frank white people are rude and it is not fun. It also really stinks when you talk to a Hispanic person or a family and have a good discussion and get your hopes up for a next visit. Then after that they avoid us. They were just being nice and didn't want to say no to begin with. It's just really hard to have people keep commitments..but the work is continuing and everything is well. I finally figured out why Portland is beautiful. It's the sky, the sun set and the clouds other than that it is green. Hopefully I can get some good pictures today during our hike. Sister Torres is going to or has sent you an email, something to do with Christmas.. oh and tell the Claybaughs thanks for the tie and mints. Tell the family that i love everyone too.

love,

Elder Garlock

P.S. A little story: we were tracking and we knocked on this ladies door... she said "who is it" as replied "the missionaries". She said " ohh, hold on" so she opens the door.. tell us that she needs to comb her hair.. so we waited for about a min. She answered.. we had a very nice discussion. She told us her whole situation. We just talked about gospel stuff.. well anyways we she ended up telling us that we looked...legit. So we just said we are just nicely dressed teenage boys sharing a message kinda thing to her but she cut us off and said something to the effect of.. no your faces, they.. have the light. I can see Christ is in your faces... so that was pretty sweet.. it's too bad we have to refer her over to the English missionaries..dang.. It's very hard to learn Spanish because... well it's America not Mexico! It's sad that we can't have English and Spanish investigators because then we'd have a ton.