July 9

Mother, 

I am doing really well this week. I had a pretty good week. It sounds like you are doing good too!! That is so sweet about Shawn. When Shawn gave me a blessing before I came on mission it was probably the most powerful blessing I have ever heard. Shawn is awesome. You need to send me some pictures of it that would be awesome. So we met the president this week. It went really well they are really new to being in mission and you can tell that but I think he will change a lot of things up which needs to happen.   It also sounds like he is going to let us meet more often then every three months for p  days which will be sweet. What I like about him is he is taking charge he just is doing what he thinks is best. We were riding around with the mission president and wife and she is so cultured shocked it is so funny!!! I told her that i remember exactly how she feels. She says she always wanted to serve a mission cause they are both converts and then she was like now they got here how is she going to do it. She is worried a lot about the food and stuff. She is so funny and so nice. There was this dead cow being carried along the road they were selling the meat. And she was like you don’t eat that right? We said yeah. She is so worried about what we eat its funny. So we were supposed to have three baptisms this week. Well the old missionaries have been teaching them and stuff then i got transferred in and taught them a little but i knew they weren’t ready and i told my companion that. But he disagreed and wanted to baptize them bad. He  has been in this area a while so he has the say. So we arranged it all and stuff, so Sunday morning we are waiting for them to come. Guess how many came to be baptized 00000000000000000000!!! I wasn’t to disappointed cause I think it is best for them they don’t know exactly all the need to know so hopefully if we find them we can teach them more and prepare them for a month or so. We have been calling them and trying to find them but we can’t. So elder Zoll is now gonna be over are area which is sweet cause this area is so big. So they are going to split it and make a new branch which will help out the missionaries a lot!!! So he is coming down this week on wednesday and taking us to get pizza then we are going to look for buildings and he is going to meet with the branch pres to discuss what needs to happen. So I think maybe soon this area should be getting a little better. President Shulz told the mission by far this is the hardest area. I didn’t really believe when I came but now I know what he is talking about. Not to complain but it will really make me strong and help my mission out a lot. I can tell you I have never prayed so hard in my life and relied on God. God is here though I know that!! he is with me. So when ever I need comfort and am in need he always helps me through everything. I have developed a strong testimony of prayer. Prayer is so important. We need to pray day morning day and night to give our heavenly father thanks. He wants to hear from us and is ready to bless us we just have to use our agency to pray for it cause that is what he doesn’t have from us. For food I am okay anything is good.I don’t need the ensign or anything we get that. Thank you mom!! HOw is your book of mormon reading going? Love you mom have a good week!!