Steven's letter Oct 19

Dear Family
How was your week? How is Grandma Winsor doing? How is Corey liking the new job at lins? This week has been pretty good here. It has been raining a lot here. It has been real nice the last few days though. This weekend has been awesome. We havebeen up in ash flat a lot. We are probably going to start spending more time up there. I think we are going to have to stay at the senior couple’s apartment acouple nights this week. We’re still trying to figure that out. Elder Perza doesn’t think we should sleep in the church. We have been meeting a lot with Tanara lately. She is the single mom that used to be into drugs and gangs out inWashington. She has made a lot of changes in her life. She has been in jail 32times, but has been off drugs and out of gangs for the last 3 years now. We have been working with her to help her quit smoking. Well last night we set a date with her to get baptized next Sunday. It was a really neat experience. We told her she couldn’t get baptized until she quit smoking and drinking coffee though. It took her a little while to make the commitment, but she finally gave us all of her cigarettes, her ash trays, all of her coffee, and both of her coffee machines. It was an awesome night last night. She says if she doesn’t have any coffee orcigarettes in the morning, she gets really bad headaches and it makes her sick so itwas a pretty big commitment for her. We called her this morning though to see how she was doing and she was pretty happy. We are going to be talking to her a lot in the next few days checking up on her. I love doing missionary work. Well hope everyone is having fun there. Thanks for the pictures. Have a good week.
Love Elder Marshall