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November 10th 2014

Dear Family,

Hey!  First off, this week has gone so much better.  It was just what I've needed.  It's been a hard transfer but we had a couple things happen that made it a ton better.  Feels great now.  

We are finally starting to cool down I think!  This week will be all 70's so that will be really good...  It's been annoyingly hot the past long time. 

Yeah...  As far as the thing last week, everything was just wearing me down...  I feel like I'm hitting my break now though like people are starting to like me and I did this awesome service project on Saturday pretty much all day which really helped.  Funnily enough, it was for a field show competition and all the missionaries in two zones volunteered for it.  I got a cool shirt from it and it was so much fun.  Exactly what I needed.  Then yesterday we had a great lesson with one of our investigators, her name is Mayra and her husband is David.  She has been investigating for 7 years and her husband is less active.  But she finally accepted a baptismal date yesterday!  She always shut them down before but yesterday was the first time she accepted one so that really helped me get back to normal too.  Super excited.  The date is on the 23rd so we gotta keep her going strong until then!  I'm not really worried, just super excited. :)  Maybe my first convert and baptism!  It's hard hearing about like Sam and Dallin and their billion baptisms already but I'm so glad that something is finally coming! :)

Spanish is coming along pretty well.  I really love the language which helps I think.  Running is ok.  It's hard to basically fight Elder Taylor to get outside then he just rides my bike behind me instead of running but it's all good.  I can go fast.  We don't go a whole lot unfortunately, I need to set my own alarm for the morning so we actually wake up on time.  

Thanks about like the quote and stuff!  That's really cool stuff.  Thanks for everything!  I'm excited to get your letter!

Well I also got a blanket from our apartment manager last week!  She is inactive but she loves us and we talk to her like once a week.  She makes food for us and everything but she bought a really nice blanket for me!  You know my big white one?  It's pretty much exactly like that but blue and maybe not as thick.  It's so amazing though!  Super nice of her too. :)  Anyway as far as I know that's all that's really gone on this week.  The beginning of the week was pretty bad until we hit Friday then we found a new family!  That also helped...  We hadn't found anyone this whole transfer.  So finding a family is great and they are all super prepared and stuff.  So yeah it's been a much better time now that we've gotten through to the weekend.  Hopefully things will still keep improving!

So yeah that's the update on this week.  I don't really have anything else to say but thanks so much for your support and everything!  I'm really grateful for everything you guys have done for me!  I hope you have a good week!  I love you!