Juggling Oranges

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 to work on sending out emails that actually talk about my mission.  This week has been all over the place, good times at Zone Conference with Elder Arnold of the Seventy, district meeting, and doing more to work and get to know the members better on Sunday.  Our 2 investigators, Nathan and Natalie that were doing well, now are more complicated because their dad says they can't be baptized now, so we will keep working with them and see where things go.  The rest of our investigators we have not been able to to contact in any way, so we focused on teaching and helping less actives who would let us in.

​What I eat.

​My bike collecting dust.

​our room

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