I am Close to a Year...

Family of Mine: How is everyone back home? Things here are going great and we had our first healthy week in a long time! My tooth feels great. No problems. Elder Price's foot feels great too and we worked super hard this week. We actually have five people right now with baptismal dates so that is exciting. We only had three investigators at church yesterday though so that wasn't as many as we hoped. Church has been going good though and we are seeing lots of blessings from trying to get close to the ward members. We have a member, J T (she has facebook and is good at English if you want to look her up) who feeds us every Sunday at lunch. The food is money haha. I love Sunday lunchtimes. We also found ten new investigators this week which was good. We have been a little discouraged by converts going inactive. In years past the missionaries would baptize anyone who would agree but now there are a lot harder guidelines. So like most of those converts go inactive and realize it is not easy to be a member of God's true and living church. they fall away due to persecution, different religions in their homes, other church buildings being closer to their homes, etc. We have been working with them and doing well. That is too bad about the Elk Hunt (but I told you so dad!!) I bet you had fun though being out in the mountains. I can't think of anything else haha.....This week we had interviews with Presiident Pagaduan which went well and he was able to help strengthen us up to work even harder. I feel super lucky to have Elder Price as my companion. During my interview with President he asked me how our companionship is doing at following mission rules. I told him "Elder Price and I actually talked about that the other day and we could not think of a single rule we were breaking" haha of course he was happy to hear that. Elder Price and I get along great and work harder than I ever have. I love this point of my mission. I am close to a year. The language is fine now. I would say I have no problems anymore with it. The ward is okay. I have no complaints. We have a missionary leaving from our zone this week going home. His name is Elder De Los Santos. He is from Baguio, Philippines but grew up in Vernal, Utah. Since he has been on his mission his family moved to St. George and he is going to Dixie State so that is cool. Other than that, it was good to hear from you all! love you all! Elder Garrett! Hey dada it was good to hear from you. I am glad you had a good week even though you didn't see any elk. (Told you so :) Things are going well with the apartment except it was a crazy storm here this week here and our apartment flooded haha. We spent all Friday morning cleaning it up but it was okay not a big deal. That is good that dixie beat SC. Too bad about Dixie state though haha. Love you dad! Elder Garrett Christensen Hey Britt whats up? Things here are going really good and the weather was crazy this week. It rained really, really hard and our house flooded haha but it was fun. That is fun that you got to ride Red and go hunting. How was it? Fun? How is school and soccer? Crazy about Taylor huh? Love you Barbs. Elder gary