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Annie’s Letter

Hello wonderful family! I love you all! So much! I just thought I would let you know that :-)\

It sounds like you are all having a great summer! Rachel, I hope you got to go on your all day ride. And that's cool that Stan and Emily think they have the shop sold. I'll be kinda sad to go back to no Best Buds. I love that little shop. But I'm glad that everything is working out so well for them! Natalie, sounds like you're having lots of fun stocking up for college :-) You will have so much fun! College is super awesome! Make sure you go to institute and make sure you get involved and make friends and have so much fun! Also study. That's just a little important. Just a little. Megan and Jusin, your dogs are so cute! I can't wait to meet them! It sounds like you guys have been having a blast with my nephews and your new trailer this summer! Landon, I'm glad you had a good week! I am teaching two little kids too! And will hopefully start teaching two more really soon! They are the greatest! Dad, I hope you had fun in Vegas! Haha. I'm sure you're very glad to be home :-) Mom, thanks for reading the article, haha. I haven't got your letter yet but probably today! I'll let you know next week, actually I'll write you today if I get it. :-) Thanks so much for getting me Temple Clothes. I have the greatest family ever. When does school start? For mom? dad? rachel? man, that's it! So crazy! Are you excited for it to be back? Natalie, when do you move to RS? Are you registered for classes? What are you taking? Rach, what do you have this year? Besides Seminary, band, and cantare. haha. Oh and Nae, thanks for telling me about Christy. That is so scary. I will definitely keep her and her family in my prayers. Please keep me updated on her condition.

So a little about my week in Marysville. It's been a lot of hard work. We walk walk walk. Like the pioneer children. Sometimes we even sing. Actually one day when we went tracting we took the ukulele and just played for random people we tracted into. That was really neat :-) We were actually able to to find 3 new investigators this week! 2 are the 2 little girls I mentioned before. They were too young to be baptized when the rest of the family was but they want to learn now. They are super cute and it's great for the whole family becasue they have been less active, but still involved! one of the daughters just got back from YW camp and one of the sons went to Youth Conference in Palmyra! We had 2 great lessons with them this week. It was great. The other two little girls we are hoping to start teaching are actually their cousins who are also less active. The moms are twins! It has been really fun to get to know these two families. We have been trying to get to know as many members as we can to get them to know us, like us, trust us and have a desire to work with us and the Lord in building the Kingdom in Marysville. We have also been trying to go to know all the less active/part member families that we can. We also tract. A lot. I can't tell you how many miles we have walked since I got here! I really can't, I don't have a pedometer but I've been thinking about getting one so that I can see. It's a lot. Tracting is actually how we found our third investigator. She said her son had been wanting to go to church but didn't know which one to go to so we set a time to come back and teach the whole family! Well, the morning of the return appointment came and we got a call... "my son found a church so we don't need you anymore." Sad! Oh well, they have a Book of Mormon and they have a desire so someday... it'll happen! We went to visit a less active part member family last night and the member actually talked to us! His wife is soooo not interested but we did get to talk to him, which according to one member, is basically a miracle. So that was great! His daughter loved us. She cried when we left. :-( But he also gave us 2 spaghetti squash and some tomotoes! Yummy! It was a good contact! :-)

Dad, I just got your email. Nice timing! :-) I really do love the people in Marysville. They are good people. I'm super excited about the hot air balloon festival! That sounds like so much fun! I will definitely keep an eye out for the pig! :-D Tell Uncle Ed Happy Birthday for me and definitely write down the stories about Uncle Bob and his dogs haha. And tell Uncle Ed that I haven't forgot that he still owes me dinner from when I moved back from Florida. :-P Well, it sounds like everything is going well there. I can't wait to get your letters and pictures! That will be SOOOO exciting! I love you all tonz and tonz! I hope you have a wonderful week!

Annie

Landon’s Letter

Hey Fam!!

How are things going in good old Lyman Wyoming? I hope that the dry spell is over because I still can't believe that there were no fireworks. Anyways how is everyone doing?

Rachel are you ever at home anymore? That is cool that you are doing so many fun things this summer! I still can't believe that you aren't horsed out yet. Still that is pretty cool! Well you big bad Junior are you ready for school this year? Tell me about your classes and how things are going!

Natalie your time is almost here to go to college! If I remember right you will be moving in the 19th I think? Anyways you will have to let me know how it is. Remember when you get over there the first thing you need to do is go over to the Institute when there is an activity and find the teacher. He is way awesome! Then of course find friends that are in institute and talk to everyone. You will have a blast. Don't just hang around people from Lyman it gets boring after a while to hang around old friends. Go find new friends!

Annie sound like you are as always doing awesome missionary work. I know how it is to be in a small ward that is mostly less active. Keep working hard to be the best missionary you can be! I will have to write you a letter soon. Did you get my last one? I sent it about 3 weeks ago. I am very interested if you got it or not! Keep me posted on how you are doing :-)

Megan & Justin wow you just keep running. That is awesome! I bet you will have fun in the mountains. Holy cow your dogs have gotten pretty darn big. They are almost to big to be called puppies now. Crazy! Are they still biting like Orion was when I left? How is work going? I hope all is going well for you two!

Mom you should wait to send the picture later I might be transfered I might not next week so I will let you now next week. So next Monday you can send them off whenever and to where ever I tell you. I really doubt that I will be transfered because I am still in training but still I will tell you. Thanks for being such a great Mom! I love you so much! Are you ready for school? I hope it goes well for you!

Dad i'm glad you are back home in the little town of Lyman. Also I am glad to hear that it was a good conference. I hope everything is going good for you in your life right now! Are you ready for school yet? You better not bow to that buffalo :-D Are you still going to take pictures of the sports this year in Lyman? I don't think you would travel with the teams anymore. So are you going to just take pictures at home games?

Sorry like I said before there is not much to write this week. We have 2 investigators who have baptism dates for August 12th and 1 who is not able to come to church and another who is new. We are excited for the 2 with dates but they need to come to church. One is doing fine with church but if the other misses then they will not be able to be baptized on the 12th. We are continueing to work and to find new people. Elder Sparks has tracted pretty much almost the whole town here and he has not found 1 investigator who has progressed yet. We will still try but we turn to the ward for referrals. We got 5 this week. 3 from a sister but she ended up bombing 2 appointments for us to meet with her. So we will continue to try. We have to rely heavily on the ward because there just aren't too many interested people that we haven't found yet. We are doing all we can.

I love you all and hope that you have a fantastic week.

Love your favorite Elder, Son, Brother, Brother-in-law (thanks Megan ;-))

Elder Joseph Landon Webb