August 13th, 2012

Hey family!

Thanks so much for the pictures!  You all look awesome.  Little Ava is just growing right up!  Grandpa looks like he is doing well too I’m sure he loved the visit.  That is a pretty picture of the mountains.  The Monkey's sure are looking older but I guess it’s been about a year so yeah. Everyone looks good and happy :)  But yeah some members took us out for Chinese food and so since I hadn’t tried duck I figured I would try it.  It was pretty it was just really fatty, but it still had a good taste.  But yeah we had fun.  She was telling us that her son was in the Las Vegas mission and it just got split and they made a Reno mission and that her son is in Elko.  I was telling them that I have Uncle Chad and his family that lives there.  But yeah it’s crazy where the time goes I can’t believe I’m almost half way done.  We still don’t quite have Michael with a date yet we are still working with him.  His mom who is the member was the one that said she still wants to wait a little while for his baptism.  He is definitely ready though he is a pretty smart kid.  I think we can get him soon though we are having a lesson about baptism on Tuesday.  We were also tracting this week in this apartment complex at around 8pm and saw this big u-haul pull up.    So we offered the people some help moving their things in.  They were really happy that we were there because they had friends and neighbors help pack it up but nobody to help them unload it.  And it was a single mom and her old mom and dad to help who really couldn’t lift much.  So there was no way they would have been able to get the things out of the truck without someone to help them.  We were there until about 10 pm because we didn’t want to leave anything left in the truck.  It was a really fun experience they were really grateful.  And since they were new to the area we invited them to church on a Sunday so maybe they will show up sometime.  But that’s about all we did this week.  Thanks for the emails every week I always look forward to Mondays! :) love you all so much and have a great week back to school!

Love, Devan