Letter from February 7,2011

Hello hello! How has the week been? I just got the package in the mail, I haven't opened it yet cause we came straight to the computer room at the community college down the street from our apartment. It is so cold here! It's like 40 or 50 with super high humidity and it just reaches in you and freezes! I love it here though! My trainer is Elder Dame I thought it was Elder Dayne but was wrong! Haha he has a similar past as me but he is so good! He has been here for 4 transfers and the members love him. We are in the Perdido ward of Pensecola city, there are 3 or 4 military bases in the area so lots of navy and marine folks! It is a car area, pretty big place to be, members are so helpful! Elder Dame has really earned the trust of them all! They feed us every night! Just as I got here the mission started up a goal of teaching 20 lessons a week, to members, non members, and less actives whoever! They are doing this because we are one of the next missions to be having a mormon.org party here! Now let me explain, the church did some testing in two different missions, one is the highest baptizing mission, the other the worst, what they did was send a whole lotta mormon.org commercials, advertisements and etc. through those areas and now those missions are the highest ranked baptizing missions. So we'll be next, they want us to practice lots of teaching so we'll be ready when that happens. I met a family the other night when we went on splits, the White family, we were tracking down less active familes and we were gonna go home but decided to do one more name on the list and it was the Whites, they let us in and turns out the have a daughter Audrey who is about to turn 8 and really wants to be baptized, the parents had a disagreement with the bishop and got offended, but they let us in and we talked, we set up a return appointment and we'll be seeing them this wednesday. It was the first miracle I experienced on the mission, but there will be lots more. We serve at a lighthouse here on one of the bases it is so cool! Things are great! Thank you so very very much! I gotta go, I need to email my mission president real quick before I run outa time! :/  Love you so much! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!! Love yal! :D Oh no grits or nothing weird yet! :p