June 11, 2012 - Mt. Vernon

Hello Everyone!  Hope this last week went well.  It was a long week for some reason.  It seems that it is always like this with transfers just happening.  Me and Elder Langford are getting along just fine.  His little accent that he has is starting to rub off on me and that worries me.  I dont like hicks very much and Elder Langford is the only exception to that.  We are teaching mostly members now and we are dieing to get a new investigator.


We mostly did service this last week.  We helped this less active guy with scrubbing his house for inspections and will be helping him with some remodeling the inside of his house soon.  A recent convert that we helped this week found out she lost her job for this next fall.  She was way upset and confused so we gave her a blessing.


We have a great branch to serve in.  So strong to.  We also had a baptism as well.  This guy was taught in Washington state but wanted to be baptised in the place he first went to church so we helped him with that.  Didnt count it for ourselves but we stilled wanted to help him.  Awesome guy.

I am doing fine.  My feet are fine and have gotten use to the shoes.  My knees are fine as well.  My back is doing better.  I have been given some strengthening exercises to do on my back so it is going good.  I am continuing it exercise more and more and I am in the best shape I have ever been in my life.  The other elders still beat me at the sports we play but I am still doing better then I ever have.  I am still getting use to the environment.  It has been in the 90's for the past few days and it is continuing to get hotter.  We will just have to wait until it gets hotter and then we will find out if I can survive one more year of this Iowa heat.

 

Well that is all I have to report on.  I did get Grandpas letters.  I find it is less expensive to do Email but I will try to mail him and Roseanne a letter.  Tell the Tuttles and the Waits and the Barkers thanks from me.  They all sent me a package of stuff and notes for me this week.  Tell everyone that I am still having the time of my life serving the Lord!

 

Sincerely;

Elder Spencer Ariotti