July 1

Hey Family!

Cant believe its been a week already! Hows everything at home? Happy 4th of july week!!!!!!

So we had our baptism this week! It was awesome! Lexy is Baptized! And i got to confirm her yesterday. i was way nervous, my hands were shaking and everything! but i did it my first try! :) so that was good. It was a great opportunity to exercise my priesthood and it was pretty spiritual! i was nervous when she asked me to do it, but now im thankful for the opportunity i had to do it. Because it was awesome.

Finally did some tracting in this area. I missed it... which is weird. I know tracting is one of the most inefective ways of missionary work, but its fun to talk to people. Except there was this guy who said i believe in Jesus Christ... and we were like oh cool so do we and then he Straight up said " no, you guys believe in a false god and i dont have time to talk to you about it." ...Some people are the worst.

We are working with this guy whos name is Andy and he is a Lutheran. (Lutherans are stubborn) After our lesson we had with him he invited us to help him take down a tree that was at his church. so we did! And it was pretty fun. We even took some pieces of wood so we could do some carving.

Its definitely different here but everything happens for a reason. We have a new mission president! So things are probably going to change! this week he is coming up To Champaigne to meet with us all. Cant wait to meet him! I hope they are cool! ill let you know how they are next week. Our week is getting kind of messed up with him visiting us. not really but this week is the 4th of july, hes visiting, and district meeting (like every week)

Guess what! so on The 4th we get to stay out till 10:30!!! hahaha Im so Pumped! I wont be able to light off any fireworks though so im a little bummed about that. But sky rocket fireworks arent illegal here so they will be everywhere! ive already seen some! (are they illegal in Utah this year?)

Sorry this emails pretty short. Just I know i love you guys! i hope you are all making good decisions and sharing the gospel with everyone you know! it really is the greatest thing to do! and it makes you so happy! Love you guys!

Love,

~Elder Chris Jones~