Dear Family,

Well Mom, in order to fix the length of my letters, I need things to actually happen to me! :P

It's been a good week here in Neosho. The most exciting thing was Sister Weathers. She's a Less-Active Lady we started working with her very shortly after I got here. I am quite possibly the only missionary in the world that would have been prompted to go see her(not being prideful, it's just the way it was, long story). I didn't really think she was going to go anywhere, I admit. God knew better than me, though. A couple weeks ago she finally came to church for the first time in a long time. She just felt really strongly that she needed to go, so she packed her 2 little kids in the truck and took off. She enjoyed it. She missed last Sunday, but she wasn't happy about that. Yesterday she came to church again and got up and bore a brief, powerful, sweet testimony. It was a very difficult thing for her to do. She gets anxious around other people. Let alone getting up ans speaking to 150 people you don't know. And she did it. She did a very good job, actually. I was impressed. It was one of the best moments of my mission. :)

We set a Baptismal Date with our "Eternigator" Ralph. It's not till October, but he'll be ready by then I'm sure. :) We're pretty excited about that.

I don't know what else to talk about, really. Life is just regular old missionary life. Nothing terribly out of the ordinary to report. (sorry Mom)

Send Grammy my condolences for her cat.

Um. I'm kind of upset right now. You never even told me Amanda was working. Last I heard, like 6 months ago, she was leaving Verizon. Not a word till now. :(

I hope you all take the opportunity to go to the Temple soon. Jason wrote me and told me about how awesome it was go for the first time. He loved it. You should go too. :)

Love,
Elder Bracken