July 5, 2011 (Week 27(6 months!))

Hello Mom,

I am doing this fine 5th of July. It was pretty sweet in Monroe everyone was lighting up fireworks last night. I couldn't see the fireworks but I could certainly hear them last night. In some of the towns around they shoot the fireworks over the water and you can go out on boats and watch them. AND THEY LEGALLIZED FIREWORKS THAT SHOOT UP IN THE AIR? The year that I leave they change the law. Oh well in a couple of years I'll be able to shoot off some fireworks again. That is fun that you were able to go up to Sourdough and spend the weekend up there with the family. I bet it was nice to be able to throw everything into the back of the truck and go up there. Did Ryan go fishing?

This last week I got a cold and so it hasn't been the best of weeks, but I am coming around and getting better. I went and bought some NyQuil and that stuff will nock you out. That is pretty cool to hear from Elder Bradshaw. Yeah that Lora we went and taught her one night on her doorstep, it was pretty cool. And then a couple weeks down the road we had a lesson with some of the neighbor girls and Lora which lasted for about two hours, consisting of the plan of salvation and the gospel. It was one of the coolest lessons that I have been to. And by the sounds of it she is starting to act on some of the things that we asked her to do. Nicole came to church yesterday that is sweet that she is still moving forward with being baptized. And later on today we have a referral that came from Temperance and he sounds to be quite young, and so we are quited excited to teach him today. Right now we have so many older couples that we are teaching, I don't know why but we are just attracted to them. Sometimes it is quite hard to teach them because they like to talk so much. Sometimes it is so funny what they say. And then one more person we were able to find through tracting, we found her a couple of weeks ago, and she asked if we would come back after the holiday. We hope to teach her family too. This is Elder Bradshaws last week, it just seems so crazy that I have been out for six months already, I remember when I first came out and saw him, and then the next day becoming companions with him, and he had six months at that time. And now the time has come. Before I know it is going to be December and it will be half way over.

But have a great day and I hope that this move will go smoothly for you. I love you and remember to read your scriptures.

Love Elder Wood