June 13th

Dear Arizona!

Our trip to Nashville went well, though we didn't get to go to the temple. In our exodus out of Knoxville and the rest of east TN we used alot of miles on our cars. We got a carter bus and a few other 15 passenger vans and headed on over. It was blimin hot there!! We were all sitting there melting in the chaple waiting for Elder Ballard to come in and some one walks in and say "Elder Ballard has givin approvel for the elders to remove thier suit coats." so we all did quite willingly, but even then it was still misrable. The Apostle came in without his coat, said a few jokes like "why are you all standing? Is it cooler that way?" and told us to all be seated.

We were instructed to talk to 10 new people (other than tracting) a day. We also were instructed to have concentrated study time. Also to take members to invite friends to church/FHE/lessons/whatever. This will help us in our work.

Elder Platt and I have been striving to live more concentrated lives as missionaries.

Sunday we met a lady who use to work with a member of our ward. We asked her what she is looking for in life and she said nothing really. She said the she felt that her purpose right now is to help her son be happy and good and teach him were to turn for guidence, God and the scripures. So we showed her that the first few principles in the restoration pamphet were just that, blessing families and prophets/scripure is to help us do that. We told her about prophets and Joseph Smith and she said that she would be scared to follow someone who might be a scam artist and that she would need some thing to help her know it was true. So we told her about the BoM that it is there to help us know if he is true or not. We are going there tonight to teach her and her son with the member.

I hope all is going well for you people out there!
love ya!

-that kid in the south