Elder Dallin Talbot's Mission Fresno California 2015-2017

Its so crazy, just this week I finally realized that the thing I most look forward to on preperation day is hearing from my family.  Those are some awesome pictures, I need to get some pictures of Elder Talbot so I can send them home.  Its so much fun to hear about seminary, I would Dayton and Drew to start marking their scriptures in a way that works for them because otherwise you forget, that is something I am really learning and will apply back at home, just write everything down, it makes everything so much easier.  Things are getting easier, but I still have a hard time sending out a group email because so many things happen in a week.  Sonja is sadly the same, she is still smoking and she says she wants to be baptized but she needs to act on it otherwise things are never going to change and she will not be able to reciave the blessings of the constant guidance of the Holy Ghost and doing baptisms for her own ancestors.  Salvador is 17, has 2 jobs, and is l...

Sadly I left the cord for my camera at home so I will have to get you the zoo pictures next week.  Happy Birthday Devin, I meant to send you a card a few weeks ago but I am still having a hard time of keeping track of things so I am righting more things down.  Somehow Preperation day feels like the busiest day of the week and it flies by and thier is not enough time to do all the cleaning and other things that we need.  Its so awesome to hear from almost everyone, its so much fun to hear from you and see how what you put reflects you and how you grow, Drew I build those snowmen, but first it needs to snow and I need to learn how to juggle.  Anything exciting in the sports world, BYU, Real Madrid, Preseason ranking?  Devin and Danica keep staying cute.  Mom, its so much fun to learn and study more about the gospel, my problem is I keep wanting to read things like Jesus the Christ and the teaching of the Prophets before I do the studies for lessons and preach...

Wow, this is so much fun, I love being out here it is so truly amazing to be able to teach people and to do everything we can as missionaries to help them.  It was the best on Sunday because we were able to get our 2 best investigators to church, Sonja and Salvador, Sonja has stopped smoking for a week and we are doing our best to have daily contact and to help her better feel and recognize the Spirit.  She is so crazy and awesome, talking with her is always so exciting.  Just a few weeks ago she read through the whole Book of Mormon in 3 days, so now she has read it twice and so once we she stops smoking we will be able to set up her baptism and she will be able to help others.  Salvador also made it, he is so awesome and he is still praying about baptism and so now we are going to start committing  him to also read the Book of Mormon so he can better receive and answer that this is what God wants for him.  We were also able to teach his father in law Efra...

We just got a new Ward Mission Leader 2 weeks ago so that is super fun.  You are 100% correct on the importance of the temple, they are really pushing that along with missionary work to get them started with a my family book, as if people do baptisms for the dead the retention rate shoots up from 30 to 80% if they do baptisms withing a month of being baptized, so that is amazing.  My camera cable refuses to be recognized by the computer so I will need to ask other missionaries for help sometime.  Thank you so much for the letter and the pictures that was the best part of my week.  I try to buy oranges so I can fail at juggling them after planning at night.  We are supposed to shine our shoes ever preparation day here so that is something I am working on.  Also my companions, love helping me drive better and to figure out how to get places with the map we bought.  Yeah, hopefully I can take the time out today to write home to the bishop, I really need ...

So much goodness, its so great to hear about reading, games, family, I am not sure I have the emails for the Shurtzs to thank them.  Those questions, I have ridden my bike some, but not in the past 2 months, whereas my companion is not riding his bike for the first time in 14 months.  I am the designated driver so I keep my companions alert and they love helping learn how to drive and to park and to survive.  Things are holding up pretty good, one of my 2 belts is pretty work out already and my pants don't have much room for me to grow for when I start biking so I will see how that goes.  We eat at members homes 3-4 times a week and the other times food is usually dropped off, I have shined my shoes but not in a while, but I need to get better at that.  I failed to figure out how to send pictures again because I took some this week.  I eat tangerines and try to juggle them, key word is try.  I eat lots of sandwiches and toast, so I will be being more ...