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Letter #43

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  This past week has been the BUSIEST week of the mission yet, and being a District Leader is only a third of it.  Gunnison is awesome! The last missionaries left us with 23 friends in our teaching pool and dozens more as potential friends, that's a lot of people to keep track of, especially since both me and Elder Speed are new to this area! We have yet to even meet with them all! This by far has been the most successful area I've been in so far with all that's going on and honestly it's been a little hard to keep up. But you know what? It's awesome! I know that this transfer I'm going to learn A LOT.  23 friends is more people than I can write about at the moment so I'm just going to tell you of a few of the highest potential ones: Nakelle is an 11 year old girl and she worked a lot with the previous missionaries, she actually just got baptized last saturday, 3 days after I got into the area!  Braxton will be 13 as of Tuesday and he wants to get baptized, ...

Letter #42

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  Howdy everybody! Sorry it's been so long since I've written an email, honestly the past 2 weeks have been kinda slow and it's been a struggle to find things to do. We did pick up some new friends and we got our teaching pool up to 9 for a little bit but we recently had to drop a lot of them because they were not ready at the moment. But that's OK, we are still good friends with a lot of them and we left on a positive note! One of the new friends that we are most excited about is named Binley. He's a 10 year old kid that has a love for Jesus Christ and wants to know more about following His example. We yesterday evening about the Restoration and it was awesome! Also, our transfer just ended and as of last night I am now going to be a District Leader in Gunnison! As sad as it'll be to leave Ephraim, I'm excited for the new opportunities in Gunnison and really, it's only like 30 minutes down the road from Ephraim. But now as a District Leader, I'll be...