Hey good to hear from you!!

Sorry I didn't get the chance to email yesterday. To answer your Qs I did do the passport and got the school stuff faxed off and everything so that is all set. um.... I spoke in church this past Sunday too! The Bishop asked me to speak on inviting others to come unto Christ. It went pretty well.... I can't believe that rich is finally gettin hiched. Good for him. Welp sorry I don't have much time. I love you I don't really need anything but I'll let you know if I do. Love You!!
Elder B

Hey sorry not much new this week.

I will have all the passport and school stuff done by this friday. Not much time to chizzat today but I am grateful for all of you. Thank you for your prayers. I'm doing good. ummmm the lady said that the overall cost of the passport stuff is about 100 bucks. ripoff if you ask me. Anywho the work is going well. I've got a special treat for ya next week. A longer email. ok no but we're making a song. it'll be sweet. ok love you!!!! peace

This week went great!!

I am seeing many miracles thanks to the Lords hand in the work. The other day I got the prompting to test my faith. While I was telling Heavenly Father about the day the Spirit hit me and an idea came to my mind. Every night we plan out our day and schedule the people that we need to see that day. The Idea that came to me was to step out the door Saturday morning and walk and talk to everyone and not come home until we teach one of Heavenly Father's children and set up a time to teach them more. So we planned it in and put our hopes and prayers on the Lord. Mind you we can go a whole day without anything close to a lead on teaching someone new. In my mind I knew that the Lord would put that person in our path sometime in the day but I figured that it would take a while, like the whole day. Lo and behold the fourth person we talked to is a lady named Heather. We walked up to her as she was bar-b-queing. We started talking about the Restored Gospel and she invited us to sit and tell her more. So we did and followed the Spirit as He gave us the words to speak. Close to the end of our conversation we started talking about Heavenly Father and how that is personally one of my favorite titles (Heavenly Father) because that shows His true nature. He is our Father. Suddenly I saw it click within her. She mentioned to us how she was reading the words of Christ as he prays to Our Father and how He speaks to His Father. Well long story short we're going back this week to teach more. I am grateful for those experiences. All glory to our God. Well I'm doing well thanks for everything. I need new slacks so I'm going to hit up Ross probably today plus before I get transfered I need to give some stuff to Alexis So i don't have to ship it or take it home with me when the time comes. Love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 peace

Dang man those close ones hurt the worst!

That is insane that roddick did that well against the Fed. Reminds me of my good ol' days in the grand slams. I just couldn't get over the hump to beat petey sampras. The 4th was great. We had after 4 o'clock on as a pday and so some of the missionaries got together and we played cards for a while and went to the parade here in A town. It was fun. We also went and watched some of the fireworks over at an investigators house. His name is Bob and he's a crack up. He's like 85 and just waiting for his death date. He was talking to us about how all of his friends already died off. It was sad but he was laughing about it the whole time. Anywho Alexis is preggo huh? Surprise surprise. Let's do a nephew this time around. How far along? just barely? I half expected someone to answer me just then haha. So miracle #2 which is added on to the aforementioned miracle #1, The person I told you about in the last email who hasn't been to church in a decade... Now his girlfriend wants to take the lessons. It is exciting. I'm going to tell you a secret which is not so secret... I have found lately that the statement in Preach My Gospel is true: Increasing your knowledge of the Atonement will increase your desire to share the Gospel. I don't think that we realize that with the restoration of the gospel, we have learned many things about the Atonement that no one else knows. Not only that but if you look at each page of scripture, it outlines some aspect of the Atonement. Keep that word in mind as you do your personal studies in the scriptures. It is amazing how much there is to understand about the Atonement of our Lord. Anyways I don't need anything right now but I'll let you know if I do... I love you all and am grateful for your prayers and thoughts. Thank you

Elder B