Steven's letter March 29

Dear Family
Hey how is everything going?  This week is Spring Break?  how is
everyone liking that.  Is it pretty nice there right now?  Everything
is great here.  My new area is in Memphis.  I really like it.  Its
alot different than anywhere else i have served.  Its all city area.
My companion is from Nampa Idaho.  I really like serving with him.  We
are working really good together.  This week I have mostly just been
trying to learn the area.  Trying to remember a bunch of new names and
remember where everything is here.  Its a pretty small area compared
to any of the others i have served in,  but there is a lot more in it.
There are people everywhere here.  We can just walk around and talk
to people all day if we want to.  Everyone is out walking on the
street or sitting on the front porch.  Its also kindof different
because there are a lot of other missionaries here.  We just got done
playing volleyball and basket ball at the church.  There were about 20
other missionaries there. it was a lot of fun.  I guess they do that
every monday. There are 2 sets here in this ward.  Most of the members
live in the other Elders area though.  We are working on getting more
members in our area.  The last couple days have been pretty good.
Yesterday we had a pretty neat experience.  We were walking down the
street and a truck pulled over.  The lady driving it asked us if we
were the mormons.  We told her yes and she asked if we could have
someone come over and see her.  I guess she used to be taking the
lessons from the missionaries, but she wasn't ready to make changes.
She asked us to come over and start teaching her again.  We are going
over on tuesday to talk to her and her son.  I guess the same thing
happend a week ago too.  Her name is Cindy.  We went over and tought
her two days ago.  It was really neat.  She wants to get baptized.
Elder Whiting and i are pretty excited for her.  Well I hope everyone
is doing good.  I hope everyone is having fun this week.
Love Elder Marshall
Quote of the week:
“Perhaps there has never been a time when we had greater need to pray
and to teach our family members to pray. Prayer is a defense against
temptation. It is through earnest and heartfelt prayer that we can
receive the needed blessings and the support required to make our way
in this sometimes difficult and challenging journey we call
mortality.”           -Thomas S. Monson