Email Letter - June 11, 2012

Hey all! things went good again this week. We spent a lot of time in Hayfork actually, most of the week even. Basically we did service all day one of the days and finished up the next day. It was a whole lot of fun, we built a staircase for a mobile home of one of the members out there. That place sure is interesting. It's too bad it's known for not so great things. Like how much pot comes out of there every year. You can definitely tell which houses belong to growers too. 6 foot wood panel fences and barking pit-bulls and boxers behind them. Definitely growers there. There are a few other things too, but I won't elaborate. The area is still wonderful. We even broke 20 for sacrament meeting there this week! That was really cool because that hasn't happened in a very long time. That branch will grow yet! Basically if it doesn't while Elder Bennion and I are there it will be closed down. So it HAS to grow, we don't want that weighing on our conscience. That would be a real bummer for the people there. Some people already drive over an hour to get there, and it would be an hour longer if it closed. We can't have that now can we?
In Weaverville we started teaching our Relief Society President's niece and nephew and set baptismal dates for them at the end of this month. WOOHOO! That'll be fun. They'be been attending with their aunt for a while and have been really wanting to get baptized, so it's been a long awaited event. The ward is excited and so are they, and so are we! It'll be great! It's good to see some success again, especially since we've been working so hard for it.
Anyway, that's it for this week, I love you all, take care!