Dear Family,

Sorry I didn't email yesterday. The Library here was closed for some unexplained reason.

It's been a good week here for us! One of our investigators decided she wants to be baptized! She should be baptized on October 10th, if all goes well. So we're really excited about that. The biggest hold up for her is going to church. She's a child of a Less-Active lady, so she doesn't really have control over when she goes to church or not.

Today we have interviews with President Merkley. That's always an exciting/nerve-wracking event. I'm really curious to see what happens. This will directly affect what happens for transfers. We get our Transfer Calls this Friday, and one of us(I'm sure) will leave the following Thursday. In all likelihood, Elder Fox will leave. I'm trying to get him made a Senior Companion, though(he's more than ready). So, hypothetically, he could stay here and be a Senior Companion. But we'll see. For all I know we could get shotgunned out of here. Impossible to predict what President Merkley will do.

I've had a wicked cough this last week. Deep in my lungs. It sucks. I'm mostly better now. Which I attribute to a Humidifier that we borrowed from a member. It's a Spongebob Humidifier. It looks like Spongebob. You fill him up and the vapor comes out the top of his head. It's so cool! I don't know how it works. It doesn't heat the water up at all. It just transforms it from liquid to gas. Elder Fox touched the little thing that turns it to vapor and his finger hurt for like 2 hours after. haha. I don't know how it works, but it was amazing. I am totally getting one when I get home. :)

Thanks for the Chair, by the way. :)

I can't believe how technologically advanced my parents are! Droid phones! Crazy! I've thought about what I'm gonna do for a phone when I get home, but I suppose I don't really have to worry about that right now. All I know is, I hate texting. I don't know if I've told you that yet. I HATE texting. Worst form of communication ever invented. If I never had to send another text message as long as I lived, I'd be happy. I know that that's unrealistic. But I am keeping it to a bare minimum the rest of my life. I was SO addicted to texting. Being a Missionary broke me of that pretty quickly. I have now seen the error of my ways. It hurt my social skills so much.

Phew! Anyways, now that that's off my chest haha. I don't know what else to talk about really. Life is just missionary life here. We do the same thing every day. Nothing new to report really. So I'll get going I guess.

Have a great week!

Love,
Elder Bracken