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Dear Fam,

This week was very wonderful. We had the Baptism of Emmanuel, Irene and Napoleon. I am so happy for all of them. This week we will have the baptism of Gracious, Graceful and Annie. While I am so excited for all of these girls, we found out they cannot be baptized with their mother. I was telling you about Linda's situation last week.. she was married about twenty years ago and when she was pregnant with twins her husband up and left her. He got married again in the states so she cannot be baptized. One of the hardest things I have had to do on my mission was to tell her that basically she couldn't be baptized because of the evil thing her husband did which her fault of her own. We promised her everything would work out and told her to read 1Ne 3:7 every. She has great faith and I know that one day everything will work out. Heavenly Father knows the desire of her heart and I know she will be blessed for that. A man named Fred will also be baptized next week. Fred is awesome, is a pastor in a church in camp. He has a solid testimony of the restoration and I am amazed by his faith. The church is his only income, but he knows its true and he knows what he has to do. I am humbled every day by these people, they are truly prepared. The members her are incredible! They understand the meaning of every member a missionary. Each week since I have been here they have brought 4-5 friends and then we are able to met them and teach them, they all have solid fellow shippers too.

This last week we had we had zone interviews and it was fun to chat with President Judd and get to know him better. It was also very fun to see Sister and Bro Dunn, they are great! We also worked on the "Mormon Helping Hands" Project on Saturday. Dad, I thought you would like to know that I really missed using a shovel and it felt good doing some yard work again. Its hard to come by service opportunities where we can do some physical labor because its not really part of the culture. I look forward to you putting me to work next year. Thanks for all the letters love and prayers!

p.s. I really tried to send pictures, the computer was being difficult. So next week

Love, Elder L.