We are having success as of lately. We will have three baptisms in mid-September. A lady named Becky Leonard and her two boys who are 16 and 11. I will be amazed if something goes wrong as she is way solid. We are also teaching a women named Alicia who I am sure will be baptized. If we can convince a 10 year old named Tommy then he will be too. Our climb last Monday up the nuke towers was lots of fun. The tour guide was less than enthusiastic and just told us if we fell off from the top we would die. IT was quite the climb. I am sorry I forgot my parachute man from Christmas Mom sent me. I meant to bring it.
Anyways it was nice weather this week. We taught a good lesson about the commandments to Becky with a member from our ward. I actually am really starting to like this area and my companion Elder Rice. He is very quiet but he is quite funny when he talks to me. I hope if I leave for Brazil I can wait until after like September 10th so I can see this lady baptized. We also found an old guy we are going to teach named Terry. An old less-active guy who did meth his whole life wanted us to come over and his friend Terry was there so we are going to go over and teach him this week. My advice to anyone is do not do meth. Its the reason no one has teeth in this town.
Also something interesting that Elder Rice and I ran into was two families who have huge saltwater tanks. One of which on a Saturday morning we are going to help do a water change and clean the tank for service. The guy that lived in the house before them sold them a 250 gallon Saltwater tank that they wanted but did not know how to take care of. So we talked to them for a long time about what they need to do and they asked if I would help do a water change. We like to do service on Saturday mornings so we agreed. This is not what we usually do but I think it will be fun. Our next door neighbor is also a less-active member who has a 200 gallon tank in his house. I could see the glow of it at night and knew it was a saltwater tank. We went over Saturday Morning and looked at it and I talked to him for a while about it. He actually knows what he is doing and has lots of coral and fish. He had a cool refugium and sump system set up and I actually learned a couple things from him.
Tell Bon Bon I got her letter and loved it. I will continue to write her. I did not know Jessica got married. You should send me a wedding pic if you can find one. We got fed almost every night last week which was great but this week we are down to two. Everyone is going out of town before summer ends. School does not start here until Sept 4.
I like it here. I took a picture next to a Kurt Cobain memorial so I will send that next week. Aberdeen has some very interesting history that you should read about. It used to be a very large city and then a couple different things happened that hurt the logging and fishing industries and the town collapsed. There is still much logging here.
Lots of Love,
Will
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