Dear Family,

It's been a long, but awesome week!

Neosho does an interesting thing once a year. It's called a City-Wide Garage Sale. Basically, for one weekend, everyone has a garage sale simultaneously. It was pretty crazy. Everyone was out and about, some roads were made One-Way streets. Hundreds, or probably thousands of visitors from out of town. It was cool. We talked to a lot of people. Didn't buy anything, though.

We also met the 45th President of the United States of America. He gave us invitations to his big campaign speech coming up. He's determined to win. So next election, keep your eyes peeled for a man from Neosho, MO. :)

Our teaching pool is slowly expanding. We just had a part-member family move in. A single mom who has three unbaptized children. She wants us to baptize them. So that should be good. We also taught another new investigator yesterday for the first time. We found here earlier in the week. She had been praying for God to send her an Angel to tell her what to do. We soon showed up at her door. Definitely not a coincidence.

One less-fortunate event is that yesterday my allergies realized that there's a lot of pollen in the air right now. So they're acting up. I'm also experiencing blisters on my left foot. It's so weird. I've never really had blisters on my feet before. I've been fine my whole mission(my whole life, really) until now. Hopefully they will go away.

Oh, I've been meaning to tell you about some food I had in Webb City. It was called Miracle Whip Chicken. Very good. Very similar to Amanda's Ranch Chicken. You just take the chicken breasts and cover them in Miracle Whip, then roll them in crushed crackers(I imagine bread crumbs would work great too). It tasted really good!

Tonight I will be having Spoonbill. It's fish. A pre-historic Sturgeon, actually. I'm excited.

I didn't really get any hints from President Merkley during my interview about if I'll stay or go. I might stay.
We'll see on Saturday. Anything could happen.

We did learn that apparently there is Rampant Disobedience spreading throughout the mission. Especially with things like, missionaries picking up their cell phone and calling home anytime they want(and they want to often). So that was troubling to hear. I had no idea we had the problems he was talking about. Crazy. I hope I never have a companion with problems like that.

Well, I hope that you all have a wonderful week! And that you'll find the time to go to the temple!

Love,
Elder Bracken