July 25 - 14 missionaries in a Van

Hey, guys!

Thinks are going good here, except for the rain. It has been raining like every day non stop this past week and I left my raincoat in Utah on accident. What really stinks about the rain is that we cant dry our clothes. (No one around here has a dryer. We have to hang our clothes up to dry.) At least its not hot though. The temperature has been really nice.

Im getting to know some of the members better and making more friends, but we are still not having much success in terms of finding people to teach. However, we recently recieved several references of people in our area who already want to be baptized. We just have to teach them, or so they say. Honestly, I dont really care how many people we teach or baptize or anything. Its just that I dont feel like Im doing everything I can as a missionary. Its hard for two reasons primarily. One: my companion has been in this area forever and sometimes doesn't want to work extremely hard and Im not good at confronting him, my senior companion, about things like that. Two: I still feel like there are things holding me back, like doubts and worries and stuff. I still feel like I'm lacking the faith I need to be the missionary I want to be. However, I've kind of just decided to be happier and, therefore, I'm feeling better, although, I still have a long way to go to get to where I want to be.

I think Im going to start playing the piano for the ward on Sundays because there's no one else who knows how to play, even though its terribly out of tune. We'll see how that goes. I havent been able to practice much.

Today we put 14 or 16 missionaries (I cant remember) in one little van so that we could get the whole zone to a training meeting (and to play soccer after). You have to see the pictures. The van was bottoming out at every little bump.

I still can't think of my favorite scripture. I'll decide by next week for sure. Sorry.

I dont have much time. Sorry. Tell Marc and Austin thanks for writing me. Ill try to write something more specific to them next week.

Love,

Brett