Dear Family,

It has been a really awesome week. :)

There is a less-active lady in the ward who hasn't been to church in many, many years. Her husband passed away a few months ago. It has been really hard for her. So we stop by and visit with her on occasion. Mostly just because she's lonely and needs a friend to talk to. Her 17 year old niece lives with her. Her name is Grace. Saturday, she sat in on the chatting. Elder Mortensen was bound and determined to give her a Book of Mormon. He did so, and she gladly accepted. She also set an appointment for us to come teach her next week. And she agreed to come to church. Miraculously, she showed up at the church, all by herself, and stayed for all three hours. It was really cool. :)

Sister Weathers, the less-active lady we've been working with who bore her testimony last week, did not make it to church yesterday. But she called us yesterday evening. She told us she was out of town on vacation. She's been reading the scriptures morning and evening and she wants us to come and teach her the Stop-Smoking Workshop that we teach people. So she's doing very very well.

We also have Zone Conference tomorrow. It should be a lot of fun. I enjoy Zone Conference. We're all getting new cell phones tomorrow, apparently. That should be cool. I'm not sure why they're doing it. Maybe we're switching carriers? We currently use Sprint.

I had Wall-eye for the first time this week. It was really good.(or did that happen last week? I can't remember).

Not much else has happened(sorry, life's just very normal at the moment).

Things are going good. I'm happy. I'm excited to be here in Neosho. I love it. Transfers aren't until the end of August, but I expect to be here at least one more transfer after this.

Well I hope you all have a wonderful week and that you go to the temple if you can.

Love,
Elder Jordan John Bracken