First Letter

Dear family,

We were told to write a handwritten letter home since we will not be able to email until Thursday the 29th.  I hope to see email from you that day.   It would help me a ton.  I am in a trio companionship with Elder Cordon from just outside Palmyra New York and Elder Broadbent from Logan Utah.  It's kind of weird because Elder Cordon is 25 years old and Elder Broadbent is 23.  They are interesting guys.  We don't really have similar interests at all other than the Gospel.  These first two days have been so hard and I have had to pray almost all day.  The first night we had a chance to teach real investigators as a large group of probably 100 missionaries.  We were teaching Sarah Mae Jenkins who is engaged to a member of the church but dealt with an abusive parent as a child and doesn't feel God's love for her.  My favorite was Junichi from Japan. He was referred by his friend John who is a member we were talking with him about the different parts of the gospel and I suddenly realized that what we were talking least about was Jesus Christ.  I raised my hand and explained to him that we lived with Heavenly Father and He sent Jesus Christ to atone for our sins.  That He is the way that we can be saved.  I hope that Junichi believed in that moment what I said to him.  Today we had a lot of classes and we met our branch presidency.  They are cool guys and they definitely have the spirit with them. I was assigned to be the district leader tonight. We have a couple of district meetings that I have to plan I'm also in charge of preparing the sacrament on Sunday. I will try and give a lot of detail in my emails and please write me as soon as you can. I have a feeling reading your mail will be a good day. Dad, thanks a lot for that letter, it made me feel great.  Those scriptures are awesome and I will try to exercise faith and those. Our Branch President is president Stice. He told us that our families miss us, but don't want us back yet.  I'll keep that in mind as I continue to go through struggles but I know you will all pray for me and I will do my best. I pray for you always and love you all and look forward to hearing from you.

Love,

Elder Newbold

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