Howdy familia,

I'm thinking it would be a good idea to have zebra companionships (one english, one spanish) in this area because there are a lot of spanish speaking people. The closest spanish missionaries are 45 min away so that's a little hard.

Anyway, it has been such a busy week! So we have the goal of 25 contacts a day which we've been really trying to get. Here's the problem, we have found people to teach so.... we have been too busy teaching them that we don't have time to find all 25 contacts. I know....kind of a ridiculous problem. I'll figure it out.

Priscilla is still scheduled to get baptized on August 2nd and she's really excited. Let me tell you about how tough she is...at work (she's a welder, its pretty cool) her trainer is always trying to give her coffee and every one takes smoking breaks but she avoids it all. She said that sometimes her trainer will set down a cup of coffee next to her and she'll just wait till she walks away and then throw it away. She has two sons (10 and 11 yrs old) that she wants to bring to church but her ex-husband is not the most kind so he doesn't allow them to come. To compensate she just teaches her sons everything we teach her.

We met a teenager, his name is Jordache, tracting last week and he is really soaking up the gospel. He lives with his dad but it seems like his dad is never home. He is 18 so we don't technically need parental permission but it would still be good since he still lives with his dad. He is from Jamaica but he tries not to speak with an accent. Last time we had a lesson we taught the plan of salvation and set a baptismal date for oct. 25! Even cooler than that is when he came to church yesterday we found out that one of the youth, Anthony, in the branch is on his soccer team at school. That was really nice because its always good when they can have a friend. After church we told Anthony that he has a baptismal date and he was pretty excited about that, we think he'll probably baptize Jordache. 

I did an exchange with the YSA sisters last week so I got to go to the Texas A&M campus to contact. It was pretty fun. Since its summer there aren't as many people but still enough to stay pretty busy. They can easily get 25 contacts every day but its kind of hard because everyone is rushing to class.

The branch has started a family history class on Saturday ran by Sis. Murphy and I, its a little nerve-racking because I really don't know a ton about how to maneuver familysearch. So far, the problems people have mostly stem from basic computer-usage skills - I can handle that.

There's about 85-95 active people in our branch and there's probably about 20 kids in primary. Its a fun group but everyone seems so busy and they all live far out. Its pretty functional. We have a really good ward mission leader and I think we've been gaining more trust with ward members because we've had more referrals and opportunities to do service from them.

I sure do like it out here in cowboy country...lots of cows....and dirt roads....and greenery.

Also, thanks for the package! It was a pleasant surprise.

I love you! I hope you have a super nice week.

Sister Davis