It was awesome to hear from you and all that you have been doing! Sounds like Canada was as fun as ever. It wouldn't be as fun without Jaxon being around very much though. Where was he at? That would be exciting to see Colton again. This week we have had a hard time getting people to answer the door. Summer vacations and people on the lake all the time. We went with John Smith to go pick up his truck at the car dealership and saw Ezgar (the guy from our apartments) working there. We talked to him for a minute but every time we have gone over to his house he doesn't answer so I don't know how interested he is. We had dinner at the Earl's and she wanted to take a picture of us and send it to our moms because she gets those from her kids on their missions and she enjoys them. There are a lot of Earls in town. that is probably the most common last name here. We went and visited some less actives. Bruce Nelson is a guy that is in his early 40's and is a sound guy for a local band here. Its cool to talk to him about that. He has an awesome decked out recording studio in his house. I may have told you about him before. He is extremely inactive but he has been letting us pray with him and we are going to watch a Mormon Message with him next time.

Christine has been very flaky with appointments as usual. Every time we go over there she has an excuse or is gone. We are going to keep inviting her to church and probably read some scriptures and show a mormon message if we ever get in with her. A church tour would be helpful as well. Yesterday was ward conference in 7th ward and it was good to hear the Stake President speak a few times. He is awesome and everybody loves hearing him speak, he is an awesome public speaker.

We had a baptismal interview with president Allred (1st counselor in mission presidency) for John Smith yesterday. We were originally going to have the baptism on August 2nd but president Allred would like to postpone it until after John goes to court for the no contact order violation. He did say that he sees that John is sincerely trying to change his life and after the court date sees no reason why he shouldn't be baptized. We will continue to make constant contact with John to prepare him for baptism.

On saturday we went and did service for Zach Hontz, who is one of our investigators. I have probably written about him before. We helped him put in a walkway in his backyard. Then we helped brother Asay paint the inside of his garage. We do that pretty much every saturday. On wednesday we are traveling to Wenatchee to clean up from the fires up there. They are pretty much under control now.

Thanks for writing about Canada and hopefully that priest quorum trip goes good. Let me know about my friend's mission calls when they happen. Can you find out Jake's mission email? I want to write him. Hope you guys have an awesome week!

Love, Elder Newbold