February 1st, 2016

Yall are the best people ever. It sounds like things were pretty good this week and that you've got a pretty good one planned. I can't believe that Jessa is almost a little driving chick...time goes to fast. Please party hard enough for me too and Grandpa's surprise party! This week was a good one! I got to go on exchanges this week with my district leader Elder Staley and it was a good time! He is one good dude. Sometimes it is hard for us to know what to do at night cause there are just so few people and they really don't like it when we tract after 6 so we went store contacting at Walmart (the hot spot of the tri-city area) haha Didn't meet anyone there but when we went to Dollar General we saw a less active we have been working with that really is going through some rough stuff. Just time after time Heavenly Father places people in our paths like that. It really is amazing! Elder Rasband came and that was pretty amazing! It was so fun to hear from him on a much more personal level then General Conference. You could tell he was a little nervous but he did great and the spirit there was amazing! We all got to shake his hand and then he got up and said, "today is Saturday and on Thursday I shook the prophets hand. That's how close you are to him." He told us to keep working hard and that when we complain about our area's or companions that we "are mocking God" so we are going to shape up about that. :) It was so fun to see all of the missionaries in our mission at 1 time. They are some of the best friends I have ever had. Church went good, we had an investigator there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was pumped out of my mind. I was helping another Elder Translate so when my companion got done speaking he went over and sat by him. I love going to church! We are few, about 26ish this week, but we are a happy few. And that is important. Had a Sunday headache like my papa but a little "dew from the mountains" fixed it real quick. I love yall! Time is flying fast. I hope we can all take a minute to enjoy where we are at cause it really is a gift. ....and the future can be intimidating sometimes, we had interviews this week and my mission president kept talking to me about eternal marriage and said "soon you are going to have a whole passel of children" and after I looked up what passel meant I was glad for my simple mission life right now haha Thanks for all of your love and prayers! I feel them every day. From your slug of a son in the dirty dirty south Mud