Dear Family

Hey how is everyone doing?  So you are going to the Manti pageant?
That would be a lot of fun.  I remember going there once with the
ward, but its been a long time.  I remember it was really neat though.
I bet everyone would love going to that.   So how has your week been
going?  When is Corey going on his big trip?  Is that coming up pretty
quick?  Everything has been going good here.  Elder Arnold and I have
been working pretty hard this week.  The week flew by too.  If all the
weeks go by as fast as this week did this transfer, its going to be a
real fast transfer.  We have been trying to find a lot of new people
to teach.  We find plenty of people to teach first lessons to, we just
have problems ever finding them again.   There was a missionary
farewell on Sunday.  It brought back some memories.  He is going to
Germany though.  He goes into the MTC on Wednesday.  I went back and
read in my journal that first day in the MTC.  I had forgotten a lot
of what went on that first week there in the MTC.  Reading the journal
helped me remember a lot though.  The first two or three days were
pretty hard but after that it wasn’t too bad.
 Elder Arnold is from Washington state.  From a little town called
Ellensburg.  He has been out 5 months yesterday.  He had only been out
one transfer when he came here to orange mound.  It doesn’t seem like
it was that long ago, but it has been three months now.   I have two
flags, the confederate flag and a Arkansas flag.  I’ve been having my
companions sign the confederate flag.  I didn’t at the first of the
mission, but I just started.  Elder Perza signed it before he went
home.  Now I just need to get Elder Contreras and Elder Kelly to sign
it.  Everyone else has.   Well I hope you have a great week this week.
Thanks for the letters this week in the mail.  It was great to hear
from everyone.  Thanks again for everything.

Love Elder Marshall

Quote of the week:     “In the end, the central purpose of all
scripture is to fill our souls with faith in God the Father and in His
Son, Jesus Christ—faith that They exist; faith in the Father’s plan
for our immortality and eternal life; faith in the Atonement and
Resurrection of Jesus Christ, which animates this plan of happiness;
faith to make the gospel of Jesus Christ our way of life; and faith to
come to know ‘the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom [He has] sent’
(John 17:3).”            -D. Todd Christofferson