7/22/13

Kate and Ellie, it's good to hear from you!  Sounds like you are enjoying life and doing well!  I pray you're doing well!

Elder Barney is my new companion.  He is from Arkansas.  I don't know too many details about my new area yet.  We live in a nice apartment and it's pretty clean.  Our ward is a bunch of either scientists or navy people.  The ward is quite young and just barely big enough to be a branch.  We have quite a few investigators whom I have yet to still meet, some I have and I'm trying to remember their names.  One guy is named Arthur, he's 32 and he had cancer when he was younger and removing it caused his testosterone to not really develop so he looks like a big 15 year old who acts about the same way, but he's pretty open to us and likes us!  We are reactivating the Alvarez family who is an older couple and they are great!  They are very nice and Brother Alvarez is funny! 

I'm almost finished with Alma again in the Book of Mormon.  I love the war chapters!  It's pretty cool how you can see the Lord work through his people and protect them.  Just look at the 2000 Stripling Warriors!

I'm in the old Washington DC South mission because of the boundary changes.  We can see Maryland like daily!  It's pretty cool! 

Elder Barney is about to go home.  I'm "killing" him off, it's crazy!  He's a nice guy!  President Wilson is a great guy, very soft spoken though so sometimes it's really hard to understand him, but I like him!

Thank you for the Birthday package!!!!

Love Y'all!!!

Elder Austin Mounts