June 4, 2012 (Letter to mom)

Ugh, tell the BYU soccer coach to go back to happy valley. Jaylen is too good to go there. Ha ha but that is really exciting being scouted by a coach like that.(Jaylen met the BYU soccer coach at a soccer tournament in Houston.)

 

Members do a good job of feeding us. We have about one-two meals a week that don't get filled up.

 

So the acnefree face wash does help but it doesn't really matter. Just keep sending me some face wash and I should be fine. The like organic pills don't do anything for me either I don't think.

 

Elder Khol is good. We get along well but in social situations we differ. He just brings up random things sometimes during lessons and he sometimes has a hard time connecting with people. But we get along great.

 

The weather is getting really hot. I am in the desert part of the mission now so I am feeling the heat.

 

So we teach this older black lady. She is a Less Active because she has some problems getting to church. She has a really thick mustache. Like bigger than anything that I could grow. Anyways she got a new flat screen T.V. and was telling us how she got it. Her son Butch that lives with her went to social security and told them that he was having some memory problems (which he isn't). So they gave him a bigger pension each month and he took the extra money and bought a new T.V. with it. That was kind of interesting ha ha. Now I know why America has problems.

 

Every day is a difficult time. Just the never ending work that is out there. I just keep on going that is all that you can do ha ha. But you have what I call little tender mercies of the Lord along the way that make it all worth it. Like Tyler's mom just gave permission for him to be baptized!!! We are so excited! We are going to set up a date with him tomorrow. We are so happy about that. It really is a miracle because she has had a really hard time with him getting baptized.

 

That is fun about going to Utah. Let Jess know so that she can have lunch with you guys once. That would really mean a lot to me and her if you did that. Thank you guys so much for everything. I love you!