71 and reference to peanut butter :)

Hey Mom,

havent got my ticket home just yet but i do feel the urgency. 3 of my compaions go home really soon. after this transfer Elders Gibbons and Haupt only have 4 months left and Elder Miller has only 3. pretty scary and i feel the sense of urgency. the urgency comes out in how we try our best to be as efficient as we can be. we hardly like to do p day. today we taught a couple lessons during our time and went to help somebody move. we wont get to shop for food but we both really like peanut butter. it is hard for us as a companionship to be patient with missionaries who need time to find themselves. many missionaries in our zone dont like Elder Miller because he expects alot out of them. it is hard to teach missionaries that we are hard on because we love them and want them to achieve thier full potential. they never seem to really realize that until they are ready to.


our week was pretty crazy. nothing has been resolved with joey. he still needs to meet with Bishop to determine what will happen.

dan is doing alright. we saw him today. he didnt make it to Church this week. he has done some pretty impressive things. the other day we asked him about his reading and he had read the book of Mosiah in one night. the next day he read 27 chapters in Alma. we will probably push his date back to Apr 17 to give him one more time to get to Church. if he keeps his commitments and progresses like he has then he will be ready on that day.

jamie and jessie had a huge argument and jamie is moving out. apparently jessie was abusing prescription drugs and falling into a poor cycle again. jamie decided that he had had enough chances and that was it. she did come to Church tho. she has a friend that Elder Miller has taught a couple times on exchanges while i was away that is taking a serious look at the Church as well. we are hoping that jamie moves into an apartment in our area. otherwise we will teach her and another companionship will baptize her. she has a strong testimony.

michael p** is developing into more of a social investigator. we need to let him know what our purpose is and let him be really taught.

skip is deffinately alive. she had had a heart attack in the night. she is such a crazy lady, she had her heart attack at 10:30pm and knew it was a heart attack. she says that she was raised to respect other people's time so she didnt call her friend to take her to the hospital until 8:00 the next morning. i think that in the long run, this will all be good for her. she lets us come over every day to help her do little things like walk bert, her kid. (the dog) we refill her bird feeder and fix her phone and make sure that she has everything that she needs and do small jobs around the yard. one day we took her a conference ensign to read while she is down and showed her the pictures of the general authorities. she saw the picture of President Monson and said, "i like that man, he has a kind face." we told her that he is the Prophet and she was happy about that and wants to go to general conference. then she saw the picture of President Eyring and said that she does not like him. it was pretty funny. she judges whether she likes people pretty quickly and makes it difficult for us to find people to visit her with. luckily she likes most all missionaries. there was one that she didnt like which was pretty funny.

thats about all this week, sportsfans. zone conference is tommorow. we have a sweet awesome training for it. right after we go on our second to last exchange. (we set the record for most exchanges in a transfer as far as anyone can remember.) we are going to train on evaluating teaching to help missionaries look for ways to improve.


Love,

Elder Barron