Hey Family,
Greeting from Memphis, the hottest place on the planet. Lately it's been like 102 or 103 eveyday, and that's not including the humidity, so I think the heat index is like 110 or something crazy most days. Elder Jones and I are just finishing up our bike week this month, thank heavens it's over. I'm not looking forward to the one in August, that's suppossed to be the hottest month of the summa here in good ole TN.
Things have been goin'. We went to the temple earlier today, that was sweet. We get to go about one a month here since the Memphis Temple isn't very far from our area.
4th of July was good. Brother Presley (Elvis Inpersonator) had us over for a cook out. Back home we would have called it a barbeque, but in the south there's a difference between having barbeque vs. throwin burgers on the grill. BBQ is a huge deal in Memphis, and it's sooo good. I hope I'm in Memphis for May next year because that's when all the Memphis in May BBQ competitions go down. There's a place here called "Corky's", it's probably my favorite BBQ place in the world, but "Fat Larry's" is a close second.
I got a package from Alyssa with all this 4th of July stuff in it, that was cool, even the the 4th was over by the time I got it lol, but I like glow sticks. So thank you favorite cousin of mine.
We're teaching Brother Presleys son Joe, and his fiance, and they are super cool. They we're going to get baptized on the 23rd of this month up until we found out they weren't married. Now we're working on getting them married hopefully by next month, that's the current plan. Joe is such a great guy, it's obvious how much he loves his baby momma and his little girl, and he only wants the best for them. He's just got a good heart, and he's really open to what we've been sharing with him, I'm excited to see him progress.
Mary and Martha (two ladies we're teaching from Sudan) are doing awesome. They were suppossed to be baptized on the 9th, but they missed church the week before, so we wanted to wait to make sure they're committed. So we reset their date for the 23rd. They've been taught everything and they have committed to living all the commandments, and I'm pretty confident that they'll be baptized then. So that's exciting! We need to get someone in the water, we haven't baptized at all this transfer. Keep them in your prayers, hopefully everything will go smoothly.
Those are probably the most legit people we're working with at the moment. We found 5 new investigators this week, so we have a lot of people to work with. We're praying for miracles.
I finally got to meet the new mission president this week. It was suppossed to be President Gibbons, that's who we were expecting for like the past 5 months, but there was a last minute change, President Gibbons went to Russia abnd President Peterson came here. But he's an amazing man. President Drewes changed this mission, and President Peterson is here to take it a step further. He talked to us mostly about exact obedience, and to expect miracles. He fired the mission up, and that's exactly what we needed, another boost of energy and motivation.
He expects us to get 65 baptisms as a mission for the month of July. That has never been done in the history of the mission, but he was confident in the fact that if we are obedient to the letter of the law and we expect to see miracles happen, that they'll come. So i'm excited to see how this month plays out.
I have to get going, and email pres back, but I love all of you. Thank you for all of your support. Watch that video I sent of Elder Badger on TV.
-Elder LeBaron
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