Week Eight

Here are a few snippets from Sam's letter this week. This letter was one of his longer ones, but most of it was answering our questions or notes to the kids so there's not much to include here. But overall, he's doing really well and enjoying his experiences very much.

[Our investigator's] baptism is still on!!! :D He even got anti'd the other day, and stood up for himself and God. He's great! :)

We're also helping someone come back to activity. He came to church on Sunday, which hasn't happened for awhile. He really is amazing, and I hope he keeps pushing on.

Ok, so I get to play for Elder [Russell M.] Nelson, but they didn't have the sheet music for violin (it's a quartet of singers, violin and piano), so they told me to improv! So I did :) President likes it! I also got asked to play at a funeral on Saturday. Man, I SO wish I had Gramp's violin. 

Ok, fun stuff about Mesa. There are wild parrots here, saw a couple of them. It flooded today, and as we were driving saw someone kayaking in a flooded field, another person swimming, and someone arguing with a cop over their Jet-Skis at a flooded park :)

Lots of pranks on the new missionary. :P But they're funny. Just got hot sauce put in my root beer cup and I sipped it up my straw within an inch of my mouth. Fun stuff. :)

Love you all!

Love, Elder Stowell

Sam knows how much I love clouds so I'm pretty sure he sent this one for me! :)