Dear family
  Its been a busy week here in pocahontas.  We started teaching Carla last Saturday.  Her baptism is going to be on the 25th.  She is pretty excited to be baptized and is already trying to find other people for us to teach.  Joie's baptism is on this saturday.  She is prety excited to.  She is trying to read the Book of Mormon before she gets baptized.  She is only 13 years old.  We have been trying to get her to let her brother Kevin baptize her, but she thinks he would drown her.  Kevin got baptized 3 weeks before i got here.  He has been bringing his girlfriend to church the last few weeks and he wants us to start teaching her to.  hopefully we will be able to sometime this week.  We haven't been able to talk to her yet. We are going to start going all the way out to ash flatt starting on Tuesday. Elder hansen says its about a 120 mile round trip so its going to burn through our miles. Their branch has a couple people who have been coming to church for the last 3 or 4 weeks.  Elder Hansen and I are hoping to set a date with them either this week or next.  I guess we will see what happens.  We are pretty excited about how things are going here.  I got a call from one of the spanish elders on tuesday.  He wanted me to talk with him in spanish.  I didn't do very well, but at the end he said that President Drewes is looking for more missionaries to go spanish speaking.  Ive been pretty woried the rest of the week because transfers are this week, but if i was going to be transfered i think i would have gotten called by now.  I'm hoping i can stay here at least one or two more transfers.  So Grandpa is in Washington?  That sounds like a lot of fun.  I miss going flying with him.  We are all done moving and cleaning.  We had our first big storm here two nights ago.  There was a lot of lightning.  There was never a pause in the thunder.  Just a conastant rumble.  You could have walked around outside with out a light pretty easy because of all of the lightning.  The wind was blowing pretty hard to.  There were a few trees blown over and lots of libs on the ground.  Joie's power was out for about 12 hours.  It was really humid all day yesturday.  O Elder hansen said that Nauvoo is only about a 4 or 5 hour drive from here.  i dont know how he knows though.  O I found out that music isn't as strict as it says in the book that came with the letter.  President Drewes said that we can listen to any music that doesn't drive away the spirit.  one of the CD's that is approved is Spirit  by Alex Boye.  I was wondering if you could maybe get me a copy of it.  I'm pretty sure you can buy it on deseret book. o and i was wondering if you had found out anything about a gps.   Well thats about it from here.  I hope everything is going good in logandale.  I miss you all. 
love Elder Marshall
O one of our investigators is having trouble accepting Joseph Smith.  She believes everything we have taught her about the restoration, and the gospel, and she accepts him as long as we call him brother joseph or just joseph.  But she doesn't like his last name. Elder Hansen and i aren't sure how to convince her that he had a last name.  If anyone has any ideas let me know.