March update

Well, I guess I should try to update what is happening in the Jungles of Arkansas. I think we are allergic to everything that grows here. We are always stuffed up, red eyed or sneezing. Other than that things are great. We now have 7 investigators that we are teaching. The Branch Presidency has finally decided that they need to spend some time and go out visiting those who have become less active. It will be great to have someone from the branch tell them they are missed and needed rather than just us. Maybe now they will begin to believe it. We had a good day at Church yesterday even though we had to speak. I had a really hard time putting my talk together. When I tried to find scriptures that I thought I wanted or an article or talk I always ended up somewhere else. I kind of got the feeling that the Spirit wanted me to say something different than I thought I should. Anyway, I joted down some of the references and took the Conference Ensign with me and said I would follow the Spirit and trust the Lord. Well, Derrick and Stephanie Orrell and their daughter showed up for church. We were excited and Sis. Smith gave a great talk on the Book of Mormon and the Spirit gave a pretty good talk on believing and exercising faith and as I looked at the Orrells he was looking like, hey you're talking to me aren't you. It was great. We are teaching him again tomorrow and I pray the Spirit can be there again. The work is sometimes hard and sometimes frustrating but always worth the effort. The Spanish Elders asked me yesterday if we had started our D&C count down. That is where you start reading the D&C, 138 days before your release date and read one section per day. I said no. I started the D&C the middle of January and finished it the 3rd week of February. It was great. We love you all and look forward to the hugs and love of home. But the time is moving on and we still have a lot to do. We had a Senior Missionary Activity at the Mission Home Saturday. Some of them talk a lot about places they have been and sites they have seen. They can't believe that we haven't been to all of these places yet. For one thing they are much closer to those places. We are serving in the least populated most isolated area in the mission. The next smallest town to Danville is a little more than twice our size. But, we are greatful we are here and can know and serve with these people. We have too much work to do to have the freetime that some of the others seem to have. President Drewes did tell us Saturday that he expects us to go to the Temple more often. So, we may go this weekend. We haven't decided yet. Well, I have to go and this is way too long. Love y'all. Elder Dad and Sister Mom