Week 25

Hey Fam!
This week has been a good one!

Yesterday.. Sunday.. Was a rather disappointing day tho.. We had 4 investigators lined up to come to church who seemed pretty solid and none of them showed up to church.. It was brutal! As a missionary, church without investigators is so hard!! So hopefully in these coming weeks it wont happen again!

On Wednesday i had an opportunity to do ex-changes with a missionary that was in the MTC with me named elder Parkinson. I love that guy.. He's from Mapelton! Ex-changes were soo fun and we had a good ole time. We'll be friends forever and i hope that we get to serve together sometime!

We had a lesson with Jennifer and it was SWEET! We asked her how her Book of Mormon reading and praying was going and she's is plowing through the Book and praying about it too! She says she feels so peaceful when she reads it. She also said that "for the first time prayer wasn't awkward!" She actually felt like she was talking to somebody instead of herself!! When she said that the spirit was so strong! It was an awesome experience! Its amazing how helping somebody come to know their Savior strengthens your knowledge and testimony that he is in fact, really there!

When i was on ex-changes with elder Parkinson.. We had an opportunity to teach about 25 people(members and non-members) the Doctrine of Christ! It was awesome! We had a few non members ask for a Book of Mormon and hopefully we will get some new people to teach from that! The only time i had ever taught that many people before was at a baptism.. I was pretty scared but it turned out to be an awesome experience. I relied on the spirit pretty strongly there and i'm glad that God helped us out! hahaha

Anyways.. Unfortunately.. Because of some crazy things that were going on in the apartments that we live in.. We are moving this week! We are renting out a small little house here in town and that will be kinda fun to have something new..

Well thats it for this week! Thanks for bein a great family and support system! I love you all..

Some members are taking us golfing today.. And im really excited about that! it should be fun!
I love you all! Tomorrow is my 6 month mark! woot woot! pretty crazy

Love Elder Russell

Mom.. Send the package to:
111 Washington St.
Fayette IA, 52142.

Its best for YOU(only family) to send stuff there! If you send it to the mission home, make sure it is only sent through the united states post office! Because if not, they cant forward it to me and it'll be sitting there for a while before i get it!