This week was pretty good, nothing too exciting to talk about. However we did make peach cobbler and it turned out really good! ha ha other than that not a whole lot happened. Elder Depew and I are doing great and he is a great guy! Our investigators are doing better and our members as well. The Packards left yesterday for home. Sister Packard has to get surgery on her arm or something to fix it. Not a big deal or anything. It was pretty sad to see them go, but we are excited to have President Spendlove. He was a great guy so we're excited to see what changes will happen with the new pres.

That is crazy that tyler is graduated already!!!!!!!! It feels like yesterday I was there! now I've been graduated for 2 years!!! It's really crazy how fast time has gone by! I'm glad the graduation went well though.

I've been thinking a lot about the things that I have learned so far on my mission. In fact Elder Depew and I were talking about this a lot. I would have to say that so far I have learned more about life than anything. I've learned about the gospel as well but I've learned something very important about it. I've learned that the Gospel is so simple. That is how I've had to teach it but slowly I'm realizing that that is how it should be. You don't need to know everything about the atonement, the plan of salvation, or the universe to acheive eternal life. You just have to understand the basics and keep the comandments. I'm not going to be able to bible bash when I get back like many other missionaries. I'm not going to be able to have deep deep discussions on doctrine, but I don't need to. I've learned so much on my mission so far but not about these things like other missionaries have learned. I don't want to talk about this too much because it makes me look trunky which I'm not ha ha but that is just what I have been thinking about a lot this week.

Anyways everything here is going well. We are starting to work a lot with the branch and trying to make the auxilaries better because the branch is so new. We made a bunch of callings and we are filling up our auxilaries. Now we just have to work with them and make sure they get trained right. Everyone wants to do their best, but because of lack of experience they don't know how to do that. So we are going to start working with them a lot. Its kind of hard because we already have so many people that we are teaching but we are going to try and make time for it all.

Other than this not a whole lot happened this week. Just work as normal. But everything is going well and I am happy. Thanks dad for everything, I love you very much and I am so grateful that I am your son.

Love,
Brady