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May 14, 2018 

This week was a dandy.

Talking to the family yesterday was incredible. I could hardly believe this was the last Skype call

home. It feels like I talked to them on Christmas just a minute ago.

We had a good week. We were able to visit SM again on Saturday and Skype her daughter into the lesson again. We taught her the Gospel of Jesus Christ, focusing on repentance, because Shelly has expressed a sincere desire to change. One thing I’ve come to understand on the mission is the true meaning of repentance. Usually we think of repentance of this big awful word with a negative connotation, but to repent simply means to change. To change for the better, to forsake our sins and turn to God. It was a very spiritual lesson, and Shelly was very emotional. She accepted our invitation to be baptized, and said she will start looking for another job where she has Sundays off. We talked to President Hall and he told us that employers are legally obligated to allow employees to attend church because of some Equal Opportunity Act or something like that.

Brother and Sister Hall came to the lesson with us. They are retired, and Brother Hall is hilarious. We went to his place on Thursday to do service and help him clean out his garage, and afterwards we burned all the stuff we were throwing out. The fire was pretty slow getting started, so Brother Hall threw a Doctor Pepper bottle full of gasoline on it, and within seconds it was blazing. Brother Hall walked away and came back with two milk jugs full of gas and Sister Hall started telling him to stop and that it wasn’t necessary. Brother Hall just said “Babe, it’s not about what you want, it’s about what you need.”, as he two both jugs on, and the fire erupted into enormous flames. We were dying laughing!

Anyways I’m out of time, sorrry this email was lame!

I love y’all, have a wonderful week!

Went fishing this morning!