7.4.11

Father,

Thank you for being the only person in the whole world to write me an email this week. lol. Usually I get like 7, and today I got uno. Kelsey didn't even write me, how bogus is that. It's okay though, you all enjoy your 4th of July! Live it up! Tell Stevo I said what up broski.

Well, I don't have a lot of motivation to write this week (since nobody wrote me lol) and we're on a time crunch since it's a Holiday! I apologize for the shortness of this email though, please forgive me mommy. We're busy, considering it's the 4th! so we're gonna have a cook-out at the Fraysa house and play a mean game of some Munchin. It's a card game that Elder Carson loves, it's fun though haha.

So something cool happened this week, Elder Jones and I discovered that there's a gym like 3 min away from our apartment, and it's owned by a Latter-Day Saint, so missionaries work out for free there! It's awesome. I missed the gym so much. Now Elder Jones and I wake up early every morning and go hit up the gym. It's saving my life, I just get all my stress out in the gym now and I feel like a million bucks, it may sounds silly but it's honestly a tender mercy from the Lord, I've been so stressed this transfer, but this is helping out so much.

We did a lot of walking and biking in the hot heat this week, and honestly it was a rough week, we didn't have very many people progress, and a lot of appointments fell though.

We did however have some very spiritual lessons with some of the less-active members of the Memphis 1st ward, and that was way awesome... we decided recently that the best way to get the back to church is to get them involved. So we've been commiting all the members we see to give out a book of mormon that week, and share their testimony with someone, and we leave them with a copy to give out, then we follow-up with them at church. It was really cool to see how well it worked this week. When we talked about the blessings they would receive by giving out a Book Of Mormon they started to remember how much the church has done for them personally and how much they need it in their lives. Before you can effectively share the gospel with others you have to be converted yourself, and I know these people have testimonies, they just haven't shared them on so long they start to lose that fire and they fall away spiritually. If you don't use it you lose it! but yea, commiting them to give out BOM's is working really well, I saw everyone we challenged last week come to church yesterday. It was awesome!

Well ya'll. I love you. But I have some food I have to go eat. Have an awesome rest of your trip. Keep it real. You're in my prayers. I'll write you a real good email next week. Love Love Love ya.

-Elder Justin Scott LeBaron