Happy Birthday Elder Lerwill, Happy Birthday Elder Thomas (how crazy is that!) The best present ever a baptism=Brody

Hello how are you all doing on this wonderful monday morning! Bailey your book shelf looks awesome and it was fun to see all the pics of your branding weekend! :) looks like it was a little chilly! it actually rained here Friday Saturday and Sunday so that was nice to be able to enjoy that nice weather! So i have so much to fill you in on! this week has been crazy, we have been running aroung like crazy trying to get everything taken care of and in line for this up coming transfer. It was so good to hear from you, either from email or by letter. I have had such a awesome birthday week and it has been even funner because elder thomas' birthday was on Sunday the 10th! crazy right. we had a great time celebrating our 20th birthdays together! and the rudds took really good care of us! we ate cosco hot dogs and other things then funfetti cake! it was really chill and low key but a lot of fun. they gave us a big box of junk food! M&M's salt and vinagar chips diet coke and lots of other favorites, i love them so much, they do so much for us its awesome! They made us the SWEETEST cake ever! i will send you pics but it was a huge name badge cake haha, it was sweet and we had a really enjoyable time with them! I relaly enjoyed those pics that you sent to the Rudds, i got to see them and it is crazy how fast time goes by, seems just like yesterday that we were at those differnt parties. time goes by fast thats for sure!


Me and elder thomas are prety much brothers! we are getting along and working really well together and really excited for the next few months we will hopfully be together for! he is from medford oregon and is way chill. we are really excited. we are seeing so many miricles and have some really prepare people who we are getting really close to start teaching! the members are helping us out so much and give us referals often! it is so great to have the wards trust and let us help them share the gospel with their friends! :) We have lots of lessons planned for this coming week and some of them are new investigators so that is exciting for us and for our wards. we have a ward who hasnt had a baptism in 3 years. there are lots of members in their ward boundry and everyone has been approched so it is kind of a difficult area but we are going to work really hard and get a baptism there for them, that will be a great motivator to do missionary work! :)

Brody got baptised on my birthday! it was awesome and the spirit was so strong. Tony got up and said a few words and it was really touching because he is making some great changes in their lives and i can see denice getting baptised in a short time so we are really excited for that! :) Brody is such a awesome example and has play such a huge roll in the convertion of his mom and the returning of his dad, tony! it is really awesome that at such a young age, he can have such a great testimony. awesome family and we are really excited for them!

We are starting the easter pagent this week! we get to go and work on the 13th, the first night! its the night that all the zone leaders from both the mesa and the tempe missions will be there working and it will be great! its only a matter of time before i run into coleman down here! that will be fun! and also tell bishop that i was really sad i didnt get to see them and the next time they come down let me know a time and date and we could mabey just conviently meet at the visitors center! haha, ;) but we are really excited for the pagent! what a great oppertunity it will be to feel of the spirit and get people on temple grounds! it will be huge and LOTS of people attend every year! :) sence we are sharing the working nights with the tempe mission not all of the missionaries will be able to work but i will have the oppertunity to work twice, the 13th and the 20th! it will be great! :)

we have a crazy week coming up, besides all of our apts we are teaching we have ZDM meeting next monday, so our pday will be on Tues, this is the meeting where all the missionaries in the zone have interviews with president! we are in charge of getting all of that put together and planned out so we will be getting that going this week! :)should be fun! we have a great zone and they are alot of fun to work with and serve! really good, hard working missionaries! makes things alot easier thats for sure! haha

We are having alot of fun and are really looking forward to moving the work forward inour area and zone this next few weeks. we are working aweosme together and really enjoy it so it will be great!

thank you so much for all you support and all thaat you all do in making possible for me to be out here and enjoying this expirece! it truly is remakable and i am learning so much! one of the greatest things about being a missionary is being able to interact with so many different families and people. you really learn what you want in life, in a family, in work and pretty much everything else that really matters! thanks for making it work! i love and miss you all so much but think about you often and your always in my prayers! hope you have a wonderful week and get lots done. get some sun and be safe and heathly! take care.

Love

Elder Dalan Lerwill