e-Mail 2-22-11

hello how are things going there for youall? sounds like you have had quite the white week end there, it has been buitiful here, really nice weather and awesome sunsets latly! :) sounds like you all had a great time in twin for the long weekend! sounds like there was alot to talk about and you all enjoyed it! it has been a crazy week here, lots of running like crazy trying to get it all done! transfers are tomarrow so we have have been dealing with all that, missionaries going home, coming in, Davids baptizm, and still teaching people! haha, so i will do my best to fill you in on it all! but first off, that is so heart breaking to hear about cody fullmer, i send my love. please do get my address to Shelby and Mariah. i thought about them a while back and wondered how they were!? or get me their addresses and i will get them a letter! thanks. so on more of a uplifting note...Davids baptizm went awesome! there were alot of people who turned up for it and it went just as planned. his son who was baptized in September, Chris, baptized him and he got it done on the first try! :) relief. Elder piaz and i gave a restoration presentation while he was getting dressed and there were several non-members there so it was good to fill them in a little! that family is so awesome. David has changed so much in the past few months it is awesome to see, the confirmation on sunday was good as well. he is a really funny guy and loves messing around so you never know what your going to get when your around him so it is always eventful! :) i feel so blessed to have been able to be a part and work with them!


We dont have any baptisms coming up this weekend but Lee is getting baptised on the 5th and she is so ready! Chris, her son in law to be, is getting back active and Lee wants him to do the baptizm and he got interviewed on sunday and he is going to be able to do that! we are so excited for them both! she already has her program lined out on who she wants to do what and is ready to go! she came to Davids baptism and loved it. she loves church and is so prepared! everytime we teach her we end up learning more from her than she learns from us it feels like! she has quite the story and is goign to be a awesome missionary! she brought her mom to church on sunday and also to a relief society social thing and they both loved it! :) so great to see people accept the gosepl and see their lives change. Every time we teach her she gives us both big hugs and tell us how much she appreciates us. it makes me feel like i am doing somthing right. we are being so blessed here.

the leadership in this stake is incredible! they are helping us so much and all of our wards are exploding! Our high councilmen over missionary work just got released as a bishop and knows how things are suppost to work and is detirmend to have every ward in our stake to baptize every month and it looks like he is gettting the job done because we have dates set in each ward for the next 2 months. it is so different to work in wards who help you and work with you and have a desire to do missionary work as well! this is one of the best stakes we have in this misson as far as leadership and members go. what a blessing this is! :)

Oh i havnt even told you about transfers...I am staying here. so i will send elder paiz home in 6 weeks and get a new comp and hopfully be here for 2 more transfers after that! :) our zone is have a few changes, some missionaries are getting white washed out because they arent doing much and the area need a boost so we will be having some aweosme missionaries coming in so we are excited about that! there are going to be 2 companionships training so that will be fun! I remember my first day in the field and all the excitment and meeting my 1st zone leaders and thinking how amazing they were and just how they were the coolest thing sence sliced bread, but now that i am in their situation i relize that we are no different than anyother missonary. but it is wonderful because we get to have such a impact on them. just as i looked up to mine, they are looking up to us and it is really humbling to be a part of and see. one of my first zone leaders, elder Jenkins, flys home today and we had to take a missionary inour zone to the mission home yesterday because he is going home too and so i got to see him there and it was awesome. i look up to him so much and he helped me at so many times on my mission! with elder mace, myself, and just other things he was and is some one i look up to so much. it really sucked to see him go, but i learned so much from him! it is so wonderful to have great example through out life! helps a lot and i have been really blessed with many. thank you all!

Hope you all have a wonderful week and get feeling better and keep safe. i got my perscriptions yesterday and i will try and get them again before the end of the month! :) i need a new pair of gym shoes so i am going to go loook today and i might have to put it on my home card, hope thats ok! :) i love and miss you so much but i am doing so well out here, nothing to worry about! :) hope things are the same there, your always in my prayers and hope you have a wonderuful week! Thanks for allyour support!

Love,

Elder Dalan Lerwill