Dear Everyone Who Reads My Letter,

I've been getting sick the last few days(shh! don't tell the librarian or they'll kick me out!). I imagine it's a sinus infection, like usual. It's been getting steadily worse. I cough up a lot of interesting stuff though. :) haha! If it gets much worse I'll go to the doctor. Hopefully my body will just decide to get better.

We have interviews with our Mission President tomorrow. That should be good. I always enjoy that. It's hard having a big district like we do though, because he has to rush through all his interviews.

So you've noticed, Mom, that I keep dodging your question. That's funny. :)

I'm glad to hear that the Granny's cat loves her now. :)

I've decided that when I get home I'm gonna get in to smoking. Not cigarettes, but meat. Nobody does it out west. But it's soooooo gooood. Smoked Brisket is divine. I'll have to invest in a high quality smoker. The Bishop here has an electric smoker that allows him to smoke cheese. He says it's amazing(yet he doesn't make any for us). I would love to learn how to do it. We could have smoked brisket for our 4th of July BBQ's. I had no idea what I was missing out on out in Utah. Apparently, what we call Babecuing is actually just Grilling. Real Barbecuing is like smoking and stuff. Anyways. If I learn nothing else on my mission, I want to learn how to smoke. :) haha. That makes me sound like the worst missionary ever, doesn't it?

We are going to start teaching a couple member referrals in the next week or so. That'll be very good. It's funny. It's like we spend all this time tracting and junk and we don't go anywhere. It's like we're spinning our tires. But 2 people happen to have the right connections with members of the church and soon they hear and accept the Gospel. And they're much better converted, more faithful members than almost anyone found through tracting.

So what are you doing to share the Gospel?

I better get going now. have a great week!

Love,
Elder Bracken