Having a Blast while Serving the Lord

Reed actually is getting better at this email stuff. Look how much he has to say!

Anyways, I am still having a blast here in Dayton. Elder Wagstaff and I are having a lot of fun. I think that we are doing a good job at motivating each other. This morning we helped a guy do some taping to get him ready to spray texture. We also helped him put up the Dry wall. I don't know if I have already told you that or not yet. Things have kind of been the same around here. Not much going on. That is why we do a lot of service. We were gonna get to go to the temple this morning, but there was a misscommunication of what was gonna happen so it didn't happen. So, I don't know if I told you, but last Thursday we had a Zone Activity. We were going to play wiffle ball, but it was too windy. We ended up playing 3 hours worth of football, soccer, and ultimate frisbee. I was sore for the next three days. I haven't played that hard in a long time. Oh, I also started wrestling this guy in my zone. He wrestled in high school too, and we are about the same weight now. I am winning so far but we will finnish later. We both got too tired within like 30 sec. Ok, so there is this girl in the YSA Branch that we are trying to help come back. Her name is Tasha Swearengin. I thought it was a pretty cool name and she is way cool. Well, anyways, last time we taught about the tree of life and we had a picture for it that she could color. I told her that she had to color it and sign it and give to me in a week or something. (she is gonna go to art school so it would be pretty good.) I also said that I would do one and we could compare them. Well, she called the next day and said she had a surprise for us and to come by. When we got there we found out that she had already finished it. Well, of course I hadn't finished mine so I did it yesterday and I will have to give it to her later. I told her that she would have to come to church to get it. She said that she would so that will be cool. If she comes it will be the first time that I will have seen her at church. She wrote on her's that am even her new best friend. I love missionary work. It really is rewarding. Well, that is all i have for this week. Catch you later.-Elder Carter

I am glad that you liked talking to Sis. Perez. She was really nice to offer to call you. That guy does have alzeimers. he is not really coherant to much, but the spirit was so strong that he asked us how we do it. It was pretty sweet. it is experiences like that keep you going on your mission. And it is not that hard to stay on your mission if you just keep the rules. Because if you do that then you will be blessed and have success which makes everything worth it. Yes, we are doing quite a bit of service. I love doing service becuase it keeps me in that phisical shape, but it also gives us a break from the monotony of doing the same thing everyday. So, thanks Dad for helping me out with Scholarship stuff. That will really come in handy when i come back broke and need to go to college. Ok, for the not so good news. but don't freak out or anything. I was getting to know the area so i was driving for a little. When we were going home i pulled out into the highway and suddenly found out that an SUV was pretty close. They had to break pretty hard, and only came within like 20 feet of the car. The bad news that lines up with the story is that there was state police behind that SUV. He pulled me over and ticked me for not yielding to the right of way of traffic. I told him that I looked and didn't see anyone, but he didn't care and told me that i should have looked more times. The ticket is for like $242, so I am pretty upset about that, but I guess we live and learn right? You might see some money come from my account and that would be what it is for. I just hate that it happened on my mission of all places. Well, other than that i am doing great!! Our investigators are really coming along and the ward really likes us. They should start giving us more referals soon. Elder Wagstaff and I are doing really weel as a companionship. Oh, before I forget, if you send shirts or something like that it would be nice to have Short sleeve because it is starting to be pretty nice weather around here. I want to get a pakage of some sort together soon to send back some things that I don't need and I also want to send some pictures. Tell Riley that he will really like choir. Let him know that if he does it that he will get to travel to cool places on trips with the choir. Also tell him that when I was his age my voice was not that great, but I developed it through a lot of practice and now people compliment me on my voice. He will not regret it if he does do it and you have to at least try it out. Well, that is all for right now, but i hope you all are doing great.-Elder Carter