Hello!

Dear Fam,

Thank you for all the wonderful letters you sent me this week, it sounds like you had a lot of fun last week and that you are all doing wonderful things back home. Each week as I read your letters I can tell that each one of you is incredibly busy and I don't know how you do it. But I want to be like it of you and I always feel blessed by the wonderful example you are in my life. 

This week we are planning on the baptisms of two of our candidates. Aurel and Eunice, I am excited for both of them, Aurel has been reading from the french Book of Mormon we gave him and I can see that he has really felt for himself that the Truth has been Restored and that he has found it. He is excited about the gospel and it has been fun working with him and with a member that speaks french to help him. Eunice, live with her Uncle who is a member, she likes going to young women and is excited for her baptism. I have been pretty impressed by the ward members in this ward. They referred a great family to us a few weeks ago, David(Father) Norah(Mother) and Perpetual and Wilson the kids. They speak small English but some great members have been helping them and they have be coming to church and enjoy it. I'll keep you posted on their progress. Also we are working with a man named Kelly, Kelly has many friends that are members and the girl he is planning to marry is also a member. So all of them were encouraging him to look into the church and that is when we contacted his house and he was surprised and it made him really think why God kept sending people to come and talk to him about the church. So when we came he took it pretty seriously and last week we gave him a date for the 21st of July.   

Yesterday I met Elder and Sister Wood, they are finishing up their 6th mission on Saturday. They are from Idaho and their family knows some of Grandma or Grandpa L's family in Rupert Idaho. It was a fun connection, she knew who I was right away and said she knew Grandpa because he and I believe Grandma L. went to visit their mission in the West Indies. I thought the was fun so I went to go and talk to Elder Wood about it. He told me all about each of their missions and he told me that President Faust and Grandpa set him a part as a Mission President. Its a small world and I am grateful that I was able to meet them and here about those experiences right before they went home. I consider it a tender mercy of the Lord. This coming Saturday after the baptism we will go and do baptisms for the dead with some the ward and I am really hoping that Alex or Joseph are able to come because I that would be a wonderful experience. The temple will close for a month after Saturday, so I'm happy we could work this in!                

Much Love,

Elder L.