May 23, 2011

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Hey Mom,

How are you doing?  I am doing great. I am just going to let you guess where I am at. I am not going to tell you because it is not necessary. Where I am at I am still doing the Lords work.  I will tell you that I am in the Eagle Creek ward and my companion is Elder Belliston. I am Sr. companion, and its scary. I have grown closer to the Lord by doing so. We live with some members house it is nice its awesome. Sacrament meeting blew me away I was not use to all the people and all the noise. Oh yeah we have a ton of investigators as well, we have been super busy. We only have tracted about 3 hours the past week. Tracting

I am sorry to hear that Dad is still fighting the illness, that is not always fun. I am still fighting my stuffy nose but I will manage. I think that it has alot  to do with allergies and the humidity but I have no idea. That's crazy about all the flooding, I hope that all goes well. I wish I could be there to assist in all the work that needs done. I hope that all continues to go well there.  I hope that there is enough people to help the stake with this disaster.

That's cool to hear about Hans Peterson. I thought that he was already gone.  Someone sent me pictures of him with a name tag.  That is cool that he is going to Arizona,  right in the middle of the heat. That's cool that Adam and Paden got their calls, when are they both leaving? I am super excited to be in a great area again. It makes things alot easier and keeps my mind off of home, so that is great. I Love you all and hope that all goes well. I will keep you in my prayers.

Love Jared

After reading Jared's letter, we received a phone call from our neighbor Jerry Jensen.  Jerry had a roping buddy call him this morning.  He said his son is in the Indiana mission and has a new companion from Blackfoot, Idaho by the name of Elder Bair.  Did Jerry happen to know this boy or his family?  Jerry laughed and said he certainly did.  We had land across the canal from Jerry and Jared had been his home teaching partner for 18 months.

Later in the day, I received an Email from Wayde, he is Jared's good friend who is serving in the same mission as Jared's cousin Justin.  Wayde mentioned that three weeks ago he baptized a woman by the name of Dell Omega Grant.  Justin had started teaching her a year ago.  It was nice that Wayde was able to assist the completion of Dell's baptism.

     This goes to show that we live in a small world.