4-12-10 Movin' On

My Dear Friends and Family,

I hope everything goes well with all of you. I hope all of your testimonies are growing and that you are all able to participate in missionary work where you live. It is the coolest thing ever to do.

We had John Atem come to church this week again. He is the coolest. We were hoping on three other investigators, but they didn't come. One was a 14-year-old, Claire Probasco. Another was a nine-year-old from a part-mamber family, and the last one was Lisa Tidwell. She was going to get baptized the same day as John, but now that she didn't come to church, she will have to wait. Whe has made some great changes in her life, though. She had stopped smoking, stopped drinking coffee, is of high blood pressure medicine, and is almost under 300 pounds for the first time in many years. We now shoot for church next week.

We had a fun preparation day. I bought some cool new shoes. They are "vaquero" Hispanic style. They are long and pointy and beautiful. I will sent a picture of them. We also started a fun project. Since we are in the middle of nowhere, we don't get to do activities with other missionaries (like sports and stuff), we are doing our own. The members we are living with have a nice workshop, and they had a pair of skateboard trucks. This gave us an idea. We are going to build a short-board. We did most of it today, cutting out the board, and making spacers for the trucks. We will finish next preparation day.

Sorry that this was a lame and short letter. Better one next week.

-Elder Burnham