August 17th, 2015

Oh my family! I love yall so much! I hope that dad had an awesome birthday! It sounds like the Reunion was a success too. And that's awesome that Jessa made the team!! Ms. McArthur better take good care of my jessa or me and her will have to fight :) That sounds like a good fishing crew I hope they caught a few for me. This week has been a pretty good one! I definitely went through the refiners fire this week but I am very grateful cause I need to start being refined like my mama and well read like my dad so i'll keep on working on it haha Brother Lacour is getting baptized on Saturday at 11!! I am so excited!!!!!!! I'm not quite sure why the people that I get to teach and baptize are always 71 but he is another 71 year old. He is a good ol country boy that is always in a pair of overalls unless he is at church. Before our lessons me and him always talk some smack and then Elder Brimhall reins us in to start with the lesson haha I'm very grateful that all of the Louisiana's can talk some trash so I won't get out of practice from dad and jake and grandpa and Darin. I love our ward so much! Things don't always run perfect or even pretty at church but we just do the best that we can and everyone just honestly is there cause they love the Savior. It's ok that people are spitting tobacco in the back row of Gospel Principles and it's ok that some of them don't have a lot of teeth or that they need a refresher course on the Word of Wisdom and keeping the Sabbath day holy haha because God really does look on the heart. He can tell if we truly are trying or not and he has so much more mercy than we give him credit for I truly believe that. He just wants us to be happy and be the best us's that we can be! God is good. :) Love Mud :) Thanks for all of your love and prayers and for raising me to be a good boy. I will forever be grateful!