Dear Family

Hey how has your week been?  Your going on a cruise this week huh?
How is everyone enjoying their summer?  I was sorry to hear about warm
springs.  Wow. Do they know how it started?  That’s to bad.  Do you
know if they are going to rebuild it?  I hope they do.  It sounds like
you had a good Fourth of July.  The Wollenburgs sound like they are a
fun family.   Every thing has been going good here this week.  We had
a pretty good Fourth of July. There were a lot of fireworks going on
around where we live.  We had a pretty good time.  There are a couple
videos and some pictures I think you will like.  We had Zone
conference.  That was really good.  There was a lot about how we need
to be doing more with the Recent Converts and the less actives here in
Memphis.  There are a lot of them here, so we will be kept really
busy.  Elder Arnold and I are staying pretty busy.  We don’t think we
are going to be staying together another transfer though.  He hits his
6 month mark this month.  It’s weird to think that I’ve been with him
most of his mission.  He had only been out 6 weeks when he came here
to Orange mound.  The time has been flying by.  It seems like its
getting faster.   We have been working with a less active sister named
Sister Johnson a lot the last couple weeks.  We talked to her
yesterday.  She has opened up to us a lot in the last couple of weeks.
We are hoping to start teaching her daughter and her Grandson.  The
daughter isn’t really interested right now, but we are hoping that
will change soon.  We are also working with a recent convert family.
The mom’s name is Patricia.  They have been going through a lot
lately.  I never knew there were so many people struggling before.
She just got evicted out of her apartment.  She is a single mom and
has no job.  She got a little house that she thought she could afford
if she could find a job.  She hasn’t been able to find one though.
The area where she lives doesn’t have much business around it and
there are a lot of people looking for work around there.  She doesn’t
have a car either so she can’t look to far away from where she lives.
She is such an awesome person though.  She was baptized in February
with her 4 daughters.  They are a great family.  The ward really loves
her and her family.  Well I hope you’re having a great week this week.
I love you.  Have fun.

Love Elder Marshall