Short and sweet

well todays email is gonna be kinda short.im really glad you guys had a great trip. sounds like a lot of fun! work here is going well. luis was the one that called you. he and his wife are doing awesome!! we got them addicted to lds.org. its so sweet.everything here is fine.i just got a "dear john" from Jess. i cant say im not surprised but its still kinda a shock. im ok, just kinda.... i dunno. that changes a lot of things, which is fine, life changes. its just hard to get used to when it does.
ohh and im sorry i forgot about your birthday earlier this month. i love you mom. times just gone crazy on me and i never know what day it is i just know its racing as fast as it can to the 16th


Last week...

good to hear from you even if it was just a littleall is well here in Elwood (city (no arthur yet)) weve got a lot of sweet people we're working with!! the highlight is probably the sanmigel family. louise and Jennifer are doing awesome. this week we were able to point them towards baptism and so now were working on getting them smoke free etc. so they can be baptized! theyre a really great family.well im safe and happyill hear from ya laterlove yajohn


And from two weeks ago...

im having a pretty good week. weve been working hard and getting good work done. im glad to be here in Elwood, its an awesome little town. hopefully ill like rexburg like i do elwood. i loved that year after i graduated. it was awesome!! enjoy it while you can cuz pretty soon youll be goin to bed at 10:30 and arrising at 6:30 on your mission. i love ya buddy. thanks for writing me all the time.john
well i am now in a nice little town called Elwood. theres a sweet little branch here of about 80. im really glad to be here. theres a lot of great people and in the mean time we keep pretty busy too. we're working with quite a few people i guess the highlight of those is probably the sanmiguel family. the dad is our primary investigator there and his wife and kids are coming along as well. he seems to know that joseph smith is a prophet i think we'll be talking about baptism very very soon! theres been quite a few miracles here already and im glad that im here to finnish my mission off. sounds like all this foot and back stuff has been pretty crazy. ive been prayin for ya. ive got a doctors appointment coming up tomorrow for that bike wreck i was in in indy 1st. hopefully all will be well its been like 6 weeks since the wreck and it still hurts... well i love ya mom, have a great week!john