July 4th as a missionary

Hey, sorry I haven't kept this up. Keeping my own blog going is tough enough. Here's his latest email.

Hia y'all,How did everyone's 4th of July go? Mine was pretty good. We were invited to go over to a families home for dinner and we also watched them do fireworks. Apparently it is illegal to do fire works here that shoot into the air. Most, people just bought stuff from Washington and did it anyways, but not this family. Newberg didn't even have a town fireworks show because they have some festival that they do it at. It should be at the end of the month. The only thing with that is that I am not guaranteed to be here. Transfers are on the 17th. I really have no idea what I will be doing. It makes a difference with the new mission president. Bytheway, we had interviews with him on Monday and it went really well. He is definitely different, but he will be just as inspired. Here in Newberg nothing has really changed since last week. We had several cancellations and it was just a slow week. But, I want you to know that I am reading that book that Dad sent and I am getting a lot of really good ideas. We are going to start to try them and I am really excited about what will happen within the wards. I am still doing well and the weather is still pretty hot. It might have even hit 100* yesterday. I am really starting to get those missionary tan lines. Oh, and I think that I am starting to get allergies like Dad because I have been sniffling and sneezing like crazy. It really is getting annoying and my nose is raw. But aside from that things are great. We still have those potentials that we need to try to start teaching. We called one yesterday, but he couldn't find a time so we will call later. Well, that is all that I can think of right now so I will talk to y'all later.Elder Carter