Hey family,


Sounds like you're having fun for the most part. That part about Molly made me chortle, Dad. She's probably having fun though. Thanks for braving the horendous Seoul traffic and floods. Good luck with everyone's medical and dental appointments. 2 Nephi 2:11. Thanks for the future cookies Abby and Nanny, and thanks for the other stuff Mom and Matthew. It's always nice to get a package every once in a while. Elder Bowcut gets tons of mail, so you don't need to send anything for him; I'm just kidding, do*.

This week was pretty good. We set another baptismal date with a lady named Jakee for the 21st of August. She's really open to different religions and has been looking for God's true church for a long time. She says she can feel the Spirit when we teach and when she reads the B of M, but thinks the Methodist church has a lot of truth, too . She said if she comes to know that ours is God's church before her date she'll be baptized. So she'll be baptized. She has a member friend who lives in her town (20 miles away from us, half a day's miles) of Mauston. It has a wopping 4000 people! *sarcasm*

Mark is still doing great, too. We had FHE with him and his kids, who are awesome. They came to church yesterday, as usual. O but we got a new Bishopric (seems to happen every place I go) yesterday. The old Bishop is a High Councilman now, and the new bishop is Bishop Barrett, no not related to Pres. Barrett. He's probably one of the coolest members here, so it should be really fun working with him. One of the members of the ward brought a record 4 friends to church, 1 of which is interested in meeting with us.

So we saw a pretty big deer bounding through our woods today. A few days ago a pteradactyl sized moth flew into out truck and wouldn't get out because it liked the light too much and we couldn't turn the light off because we had to get it out....anyway it reminded me of Mothra from Godzilla.

Today we're going to go disc golfing again, at a different course. You guys better practice up, I'm going to be a pro by the time I get home (the impending doom grows closer and closer). Speaking of which Elder Stribling gave his dying (To die - NOT TO PHYSICALLY DIE, but to go home, Mom) testimony at Zone Conference last week. It was sad, my trainer is going home. He actually doesn't leave till the end of next transfer, but since we only have zone conferences every 2 transfers now (O ya we only have zone conferences only 2 transfers now) he had to give his dying testimony this time. Zone conference was good though. They introduced the new lessons they're going to be teaching at the MTC and that we are going to start incorporating into our teaching. We're still using PMG, just learning how to teach better, whitsh ish nisch. O and also the sister missionaries are being told to wear bright colors so they don't look like 'dead nuns.' A couple of more changes are happening, but I don't remember them all.

This next week should be fun. We're going to be helping at a triathalon on Sat, should be a good way to talk to some people.

Hope you guys have an awesome, relaxing time in Utah!

Love

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