Hello to all! I love the pictures you guys have sent me. That Simon is the best picture ever! The other ones where good but that one just made my day. I heard about the eclipse that was in Utah. I am so jealouse! I have always wanted to be able to see an eclipse and I just missed it. I am glad you guys had the opportunity to see it though. Hope the recital was one of the best. Any good pieces played that I would have loved? Glad that Stake Conference was good as well. All the Apostles are great speakers and I always look foreward to reading what they have to say to us. What they all said is true and it really was inspired by the Spirit to be said.
Everything is going well in Mt. Vernon. This past week I was able to go on the last exchange with the spanish Elders and that was fun. We visited Allen (if you dont remember he is the hermit). That was a good visit. The Spanish Elder I was with actually was the one that found Allen and visited with him for the first time. It was a good visit and we shared some scriptures on growing your faith. We also have been teaching this young 12-13 year old girl. She has ADHD and has a hard time concentrating so we gave her a quick and simple rundown of the restoration using some stacking cups. It went well and she is still coming to church with her member friend. We visited with this media referal yesterday that visited the Nauvoo visitors center. She was really fun to visit with. She is way into history and genealogy and she actually got me interested in learning a little bit more about the history of the church. History really is great. We left her with some stuff to read and a lot of pamphlets to read. She has a husband that is difficult to work with and not at all interested so we need to visit when he is somewhere else. But she is still very awesome and has already read the Book of Mormon! I also had my first baptism this last weekend! We kinda taught him but it was mostly a review. But yeah, he is my first half baptism! Really awesome guy and is way solid.
Sincerely;
Elder Spencer Ariotti