FLATLAND IS GREAT!!!!! My companion is Elder Ricks. He’s from Meridian Idaho!! My address is 1013 E 28th St., Marion, Indiana, 46953 LOOK ME UP!!!!!
P-day is Tuesday up here. It’s way awesome! We are going to go play basketball with some of the guys in "tha HOOD" later today, it should be fun.
Marion is really small, half of the homes are in bad shape or they are abandoned. All the huge companies around here closed. So there’s no more work. It’s really nice though the people are so humble. We stopped a guy last night around 8:45 p.m.when we were walking home. We gave him a pa(pass along) card for the movie Finding Faith in Christ. He then told us how proud of us he was, that the Lord will greatly bless us for having the TENACITY to get out in the street and preach the good word. That made this whole week of up and downs all worth it.
The ward is really small. We have more more priesthood members back home than they do in their entire ward. Sunday was nice we went and ate dinner at the Turner’s home. They are the most awesome people ever!!! Sheesh! Their daughter Afton is 16 or 17 and she is planning on getting a PHD in something or other. I couldn’t do that.
TELL EVERYONE IF THEY WANT TO HEAR FROM ME, THEY HAVE TO WRITE A LETTER OR EMAIL ME AT mark.swanson@myldsmail.net SO I CAN SEND A LETTER BACK TO THEM!!. We aren’t allowed to email friends, but I’m going to print off emails and write letters to you when I have some spare time.
The work is going well out here. We met with Bill Blake yesterday, he's pretty much already a member, his wife has accepted baptism, but hasn’t set a date yet because she wants to wait for him, and he wants to finish the Book of Mormon first, but he said he wanted to be baptized as well once he's done. We are having FHE with them tonight because they do that on Tuesday instead of Monday (his wife works/owns a coffee shop) then later we are going to go meet Kylee and Sean Wilkins. He is a member and has been for a long time. He’s 22 and she's 21. She isn’t a member, but Sean has been a good influence on her, so we’re going over tonight to get to know them and maybe set a baptismal date!!!! WELL I’M GLAD TO HEAR YOU GUYS ARE DOING WELL!!!!! INDIANA IS BEAUTIFUL!!!! I CANT WAIT FOR EVERYTHING TO GREEN UP!!!! Oh, on a side note Hehehe. So there is a church up here called the BETHEL AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH....... I thought Methodist and Episcopalians didn’t like each other???? Hahaha well anyway, I love you guys so much!! Thanks for helping me get out here. LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!
OH HEY GUYS-- WHAT WE DRIVE UP HERE?? A 2010 FORD FUSION!!!! YEA BABY!!!! WE EITHER WALK OR DRIVE EVERYWHERE!!!
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