Dear Family,

It's good to hear from you again! It feels like it's been forever.

Neosho is a nice place. The ward is fantastic. Very supportive. I've also been fed very well. Yesterday, we had dinner with the McBryde family. They grilled up all these pork chops from a pig they had raised. Sauteed peppers and onions.They had these awesome bacon and cheese mashed potatoes. Steamed Corn on the Cob and Broccoli. Cookies for dessert. Soooo much food. But the most memorable part was the pepper. Apparently, last year they had an over abundance of habanero peppers, and a few other peppers. Primarily habanero. So the dried them out and ground them up and made pepper seasoning. I smelled it and it made my nose burn for half an hour(at least). My eyes were watering for about 10 minutes. And I put it on my food too. It was sooooo spicy! You would've died, mom. haha.

Neosho, the city itself, is ridiculous. It was built in all these hills. You are ALWAYS going up or down a hill. The road is NEVER flat here. I'm so glad it's a car area. We drive a little Sage Green Mazda 3. It's awesome.

We have 4 investigators with a baptismal date. One I'm unsure about. But the other 3 are these 3 little girls who are all sisters. 2 ten year old twins and one 12 year old. Their mom was very less-active but has been reactivating the last year or so, and now the girls want to be baptized. They will get baptized on the 27th. I'm so excited!

Things are going really well here. Just have to keep it up. Keep teaching. Keep finding. That's it really. No complaints.

My companion is very good. His name is Elder Lybbert. He's from Canada(I think I mentioned that last week). He has very good and righteous desires and he's a very hard worker. I'm impressed thus far.

We spoke in Church yesterday. The Speakers cancelled so on Thursday the Bishop asked us if we could speak. The Topic was "Men in the Last Days--Who can we trust?" Elder Lybbert spoke about prophets and, of course, General Conference. Which I am so excited for. I felt prompted to talk about how we can trust the authors of the scriptures, our local leaders(especially the Bishop), and the Godhead. It was good. I don't think I did too bad. I'm starting to get the hang of public speaking. Practice makes perfect, right?

Neosho had a tornado the night before I got here! I was so mad! It just rained real hard in Webb City. But there were 2 or 3 that touched down near here on Wednesday. I can't believe I missed it!

I have not received any email from Ben. I would love it if you gave me his address and gave my address to his parents. I would really love to still be able to hear from him on occasion. It's been a good while since I last heard from him.

So, that's about it from me this week. Send everyone my love. Have a great week!

Love,
Elder Bracken