Dear Family



Hey how is everything going for you there? I hope everyone is getting over being sick. So you are going up to Idaho this weekend? I bet that will be a fun trip. Its been a pretty crazy week this week. Sorry if I gave you a bit of a scare on Wednesday. That was Elder Steed that called you. He came out with me. We were on our way down for a district meeting in Camden Arkansas, then we were going to go on exchanges with the Hot springs Elders and the Monticello Elders. We had met up with the Hot springs Elders earlier in the morning and were riding to district meeting with them. Well we were almost to Camden, and we got pulled over by a highway patrol. The missionary who was driving was speeding. Well when the officer asked to see his license, he couldn’t find it so the officer asked him to come back to the police car with him so he could put his name into his computer. After a few minutes, the police officer found out that the missionary’s license was suspended. The three of us left were just waiting in the car watching, and after a few minutes, the police officer told the missionary to turn around and put his hands on the car so he could search him. After he got done, he handcuffed the missionary and put him in the back of the police car. We weren’t sure what we were supposed to do after that. The officer called Elder Steed and I out to talk to him and told us that we needed to follow him to the police station. When we got there we got told that for him to get out of jail, we needed to pay the bail which was $590. That’s why I had to get money out of my account. Elder Steed and I split most of it, and the other missionary picked up the rest. He was in jail though for a good hour and a half. While we were in there, a few of the police officers came out and were talking to us and told us we couldn’t have had a more aggressive officer pull us over. None of us knew that he was driving with a suspended license though. He didn’t know either. The officer told him that it was from when he was back home in Arizona, but The missionary said he had paid all his tickets, and he had been pulled over before while he was here in Arkansas and nothing had been said about it. But that’s why we called on Wednesday. It turned out to be a pretty rough day. We were all interviewed by President Drewes and the Missionary got moved to another part of the mission. Then later that night, Elder Steed and I found out another missionary from Idaho Falls had gone home earlier in the morning. It turned out to be a bad day in our zone. Hopefully this next week will be a lot better. Sunday was kind of crazy too. There weren’t very many adults there at church, but there were a lot of kids. Right in the middle of sacrament meeting, they all got rowdy and started goofing off. All the missionaries were being used to pass the sacrament, so we couldn’t help much. The Unit leader got up and took them all out to the car and took them home. When they left, it was like half the congregation was gone. Well that’s about all the excitement from here this week. There should be a letter coming in the mail with a check for $255 and aletter. I hope you have a safe trip to Idaho this week. Have fun.



Love Elder Marshall