Hey mom!

Thank you for the CDs, the socks, and the tie! The tie is sweet! My district leader Elder Pack is jealous of it.

So how did the turkey hunt go? Did dad get anything? How is his knee doing?

So guess what! I'm getting transferred. I'm going to Springdale Arkansas! Elder Budden served there for his second area so he has been giving me the down low on the area. It sounds like it should be a pretty good area. My new companion is going to be Elder Barton. One of the assistants said that he was a really good missionary and that he admired him so hopefully he should be pretty awesome.

Our Zone outing last week was pretty awesome! We played ultimate frisbee for about an hour or so and then we played basketball for a couple hours. We were playing a game called poison for almost an hour. It's a really fun game! We had a really good turn out.

How is the garden doing? has anything come up yet?

This week has been a pretty good week. We only had a total of 13 lessons this week, but that's higher than the past few weeks. I don't remember if I told you or not, but we have been going through our investigators and deciding who is serious and who is just curious. We dropped a whole bunch of our investigators. On Tuesday I went on an exchange with Elder Browning our zone leader in Joplin and then Wednesday I went on an exchange with Elder Pack here in Parsons. It was kind of weird, cause Elder Budden planned out Wednesday for Elder Pack and I so there were a couple of potentials that he had planned for that I didn't know. It made the day a little crazy, but it was still a good one.

I didn't bring my camera with me today cause I'm going to have Bro. Sykes (Elders quorum president) upload the pictures for me at dinner tonight.

Today we are going Spoonbill fishing with Bro. Virtue. It should be awesome! They're big fish!

Well I hope that everything is going good for you guys! I love you and pray for you always!

Love Elder Joyner

Investigators:

Rosco + Mary - We talked with them about the trinity. He's way too stuck on his belief about the trinity. We're going to be dropping them for a while. They're going to be spending a whole lot of time out at the lake here pretty soon.

Jerry - We talked with him about the Book of Mormon. He has been reading, but not a whole lot. Hopefully they will be able to get him reading more and coming to church.

Anna - We talked with her for a little while about the brother of Jarred. We are going to be reading from the book of Ether with her to help her start gaining a testimony of the Book of Mormon. She is not happy that I am leaving.

Bonnie - This week Bonnie invited her preacher over during our visit. So we had a session of confounding his false doctrine. We totally destroyed him. We gave him lots to think about.

Elmer - We talked with Elmer about Prophets and the Book of Mormon. He told us that he has been praying and the he knows that Joseph Smith was a prophet. He said that he wants to come to church as often as he can.

Travis - Travis is a new investigator we picked up on saturday. We answered a lot of the questions that he had. He's a really sincere guy and you can tell that he really has been prepared by the Lord. I carry my floppy copies of the Book of Mormon in a duct tape case to take care of them. He noticed that and was suprised by how well we take care of them. At the end of the lesson he asked us if we had anything that he could read, he was expecting a pamphlet, we gave him a Book of Mormon. He was extremely shocked that we gave it to him and he was really greatful. He'll be baptized soon. He's very prepared.

Thats all for this week.