Well Hi there. Hope your week was well. I'm doing pretty great out here. Just enjoying the weather and all out here. Just need the guys here to stop piercing their ears. Is that popular in the states, because nearly everyone has a pierced ear.

Other than that the week was great! Frank and Sophia were baptized this weekend and confirmed on Sunday. Frank, was good, just a loud eleven-year-old that we taught for a few weeks and then Sophia, who I wasn't even sure she wanted to be baptized she just kinda did after four months of working with her.

Still breaking down that language barrier with my companion, and I think that it is harming my English. I communicate with him in broken English and then I get weird looks sometimes in lessons because I'm speaking to them with broken English when everyone knows I'm from the States. I tell people that I'm from California (I am by the way) because Utah gets people to be a bit put off because it is the Mormon capital of the world. And it is a habit that I have ever since an old companion because when he said he was from Utah, I could not be from the same place. That was kind of strange,  But he's my son so that is just how it goes. Apparently I'm a Great-Grandfather in the mission, which is strange but not too common this early in a mission and it just makes me laugh when this kind of speech is used.

Hope you all have a wonderful week and continue to read from the scriptures. Learned a small lesson about enjoying corrections in the 1st Book of Corinthians today Chapter 3. Take a read if you want. If not, no worries.

Have a good one. Kia Ora

Elder Long