Dear Mom and Dad,

First off, I am staying in Spearman. I received the package and appreciate all of the things you gave me. I am a little skeptical about the Jalapeno Pecan Brittle but the rest is awesome! D.... is straight up awesome! I can see him being baptized really soon! He is kicking the habit right now and only chews once a week at most. I have cooked lasagna, cookies, sphagetti, and german pancakes using the cookbook and I continue to make healthy meals for Elder Barona and I. Elder Barona is now hooked on Tennis so I would think that is a big success there! I love the mission, I see a few problems here and there and I face challenges but I am glad to be out here nonetheless. I normally just do the usual on P-day, shopping, writing, laundry, cleaning, tennis. Just a day to relax I guess. We have had zone conference and let me tell you, President Heap and I talk every week. I don't know I just trust him a lot and he trusts me to do things. Like earlier last week, there was this investigator who wanted to know something about the Book of Abraham. So I asked President Heap and he gave me permission to get on a computer on a Thursday and find out what I could. I did find the answer and President Heap texted me a few times to see how the thing was going. I really think he was meant to be my Mission President.

Hopefully Bryson will not make the same mistake I did and get a whopping "I don't even know how that is possible" (while me and Bryson are laughing of course) 2.1 on his GPA. Stay on top of him but not in the way you did me because that will not work. Find a more gentler approach, especially with Bryson. I had to figure it out on my own and obviously that ended up working out with me. Maybe Bryson is the same? Maybe not? But I know he is a little hard-headed at times and that is just him. At least Caden is having fun, Is he still blaming me when he gets hurt even though I am more than 600 miles away from him? haha! Tell Bryn and Brie that they are doing a good job and tell Brie that everytime she cries over nothing I either get Bible Bashed or Crash on my bike and hopefully that will work out.

Right now is harvest so that means that there is a ton of Corn everywhere, you got to love the Midwest right? Send me a picture of the Cow Elk when you get it. How big is Luna getting? Dustin Mizell e-mailed me and offered me a big job offer for after my mission where I own my own booking agency because he probably feels like he can trust me with it since I have this much dedication and he respects the fact that I chose to serve a mission so that is cool.

Elder Barona and I are now officially English and Spanish Teachers. We are now teaching English to Spanish members and Investigators and teaching Spanish to English members in order to improve our branch and improve Spearman in general. We will see how that goes. I also tried Octopus for the first time at a Mexican restaurant and in all honesty, It was really good. I don't know about you guys but there hasn't been a single weird food that I didn't find tasty. On my mission I have had Menudo (soup with cow intestine) Octopus, Calamari, Pakistani Food, and Elder Barona said he will hook me up with some Cuy (roasted guinea pig) by the end of the transfer.

I also found out that the Book of Mormon has been written side by side with the bible throughout all of history because the Book of Ether starts out with the Tower of Babel (which is in the beginning of Genesis around 3000 B.C) and even goes further than the Bible because the Bible ends in 100 A.D while the BOM ends in 421 A.D. We also taught our first Muslim named A.... He is from Pakistan and he is open to talk to us but brushed off the first vision because to Muslims Jesus is not the son of God and God has no physical body. He also taught me a phrase in Urdu "Ha da a a fes" which simply means God be with you or Have a nice day. We found R... again as well! And he is just as legit as he was before he left to Alabama so hopefully that works out!

Some Spanish investigators and Brother Swearingon, who is fluent in Spanish, told me that for being out 3 months, I am more fluent than anyone else with the same amount of time that they have ever met and none of them would have guessed that I only started speaking Spanish 3 months ago! That is a huge confidence builder! I am staying in Spearman by the way. I also got to translate during Sacrament meeting but the problem is that the people were speaking too fast! I got so confused that I started reading the Young Women Values that were on the wall beside me and then started reading Helaman 5:12 and explaining the verse. While I was saying the First Vision Elder Barona walked in and asked what the heck I was doing as he had headphones on to check my progress. So that is my life right now haha!

Anyways, Love you, Tell everyone to write or E-mail!

Love,

Elder Farley