Thanks for the awesome letters! The baptism was awesome and i will try and send another picture. So we get free meals at this mexican place called tacos mi casa and we were picking up our food and I saw Julius Randle go to the Lakers. That was pretty devastating but then we went back to the church to fill the font and everything. Chris took a huge step in his life and it was really cool to see. Him and Donna are going to take us golfing 18 holes either today or next week so sweeetttt!!!! That is crazy about Colton coming home in two weeks. There is an elder in our zone who has two weeks left as well. Hopefully Riley does make it out on a mission. It would be good for him. It seems like Carson just barely left though haha.

Answers to moms questions......

1.We have to be in by 6:00. We can attend gatherings in the afternoon if we are with a recent convert or investigator.

2. Yes we get along great and I learn a lot from him.

3. He is a convert. He converted when he was 23 and went on his mission at 24. Church basketball got him involved with the church.

4. We play bball every week pretty much, today we are having pday at Dr. Earl's house (the richest guy in Moses Lake)

5. We are going to try and commit John Smith to baptism this week. He attended Chris' baptism.

6. Good foods you would have loved our meal the other night. Clams and oysters, 5 different kinds of shrimp, salmon, and crab legs. It was awesome.

7. I am getting my hair cut tomorrow by Elder Morales, I guess we will see how it goes.

8. My shoes are like walking on clouds.

9. I don't think I need anything else sent but thanks anyways.

Good luck in the State Am next week. I bet you can go further than you think. Just like you told me, do your best and the Lord will fill in the rest hahaha. Its true for anything! Hopefully Dante Exum turns out to be awesome! I bet he is way good. Sounds like Jazz and Penn State are gonna be set in no time. There are a ton of missionaries that are dying for updates about the World Cup but don't worry about it. It is so boring haha.

Yesterday at church Tristan had his priesthood interview and he even told us that he wants to go on a mission in a year!! He was just baptized last week. That is a lot of faith. We are losing investigators because of the baptisms but we still have a couple really solid ones. Most of them are really flaky with appointments and stuff so it is hard to get any set appointments. We really need help from the members. They say they are going to help us out so we will see. It is incredible how much more successful the work is when investigators are referrals. We haven't had much success tracting at all. Chris and Tristan were both member referalls and same with our 2 solid investigators. We still need to keep trying to find people anyway and have faith. Thanks for all the support and prayers for me! I pray for you guys too. Its so fun to see all that you are doing. Good luck with everything in the upcoming week!

Just so you know pday is probably going to be on Wednesday next week because it is our zone temple trip so if you don't hear from me till wednesday you know why. they might still have pday on monday so i don't know for sure.

 

Dad, Sounds like everything is going well with the golf. Hopefully it is good timing and you are peaking at the right time!! I am playing later today. 18 holes at Moses Point with Chris and  sister Goude. Apparently sister Goude is awesome at golf so we will see. That would have been sweet to have Wadsworth as your caddie dang it.

 

Thats pretty sad about Cassidy but hopefully things work out however they are supposed to. Im sure she has already learned a ton though. The MTC crams all kind of stuff into your brain. I can't even imagine 6 weeks there. That would have been a little rough. The mission field is way better. I am jealous of you guys going up to canada. I got the wedding invitation in the mail a couple days ago. Should be fun for you guys. Tell Cassidy congratulations again from me, and Colton too. thats crazy how little time he has left. Time is definitely flying. I will hit 2 months before I even know what happened. We were just barely talking about my 1 month mark hahaha. There is no time to waste.

 

NBA free agency is always awesome. That would be crazy if Lebron returned to cleveland to play with Irving and Wiggins. That would probably be bad for everybody else though so hopefully it doesn't happen. British open is coming up soon thats exciting.

 

This week we put John Smith on date for July 26th. He will most likely be interviewed by a member of the mission presidency. He has a hearing on the 24th after violating a restraining order but if the case is dismissed as expected, we will have the baptismal interview, so it is kind of in limbo at this point. We got two new investigators this week. One of them was a referral and one of them lives with a less active member. Pretty much all of our investigators right now live with their girlfriends or boyfriends so baptism will be a challenge but we will continue to teach them. What advice do you have about how to handle that situation?

 

I don't know anything about the big dam so who knows but maybe I will find out haha. Transfers are next wednesday. They are every 6 weeks. We find out saturday night what will happen. Anything can happen but usually you stay in an area for about 3 transfers. 1 or 2 is short and 4-5 is long. One elder has been here 5 transfers so he is most likely out of here. Weird stuff does happen though so its still kind of intense to find out. Elder Tays was only in Moses Lake one transfer before me so chances are we are both staying until at least the end of August but I will let you know how it goes. Thanks for writing and good luck with everything going on!!!

 

Love, Elder Newbold (Hunter)