Another Transfer

As you can see by the title and the address change, Kyle is being transferred this week. I was just getting his old address memorized. This one, however, should be easier. I was raised in a town named Ruth, NV. When I called the mission home today to get his address, the sister who I spoke to was raised in Ely, NV which is about seven miles from Ruth and where I went to high school. She knows my parents very well and I remember her parents. Really, it is a small world and sometimes even smaller within the church. Anyway, here's the latest....

Hey!

So transfer calls were on Saturday! I am leaving Springdale and going to Sallisaw, Oklahoma! I will have now served in three states. My new companion will be Elder Manser. Nobody that I have talked to has ever heard anything about him. Elder Barton is going to be training now. He's not excited. He won't find out who his companion is until Thursday. Elder Barton served down in Mena, Arkansas which is right by Salisaw so he said that its a pretty nice little town. It's also a bike area. Good thing we got me a good bike.

This week has been a pretty slow week for us. We did a lot of service on Monday with Bro. Garner and Bro. Sutten and we taught Joe that night. Tuesday was our P-day because the Library was closed on Monday for the 4th of July. We taught Roy and Dianne Reed that night. Wednesday we just did a ton of finding. We were pretty much tracting the whole day. Thursday we had our weekly planning session and then we helped Sis. Castorena move her furniture from her house to her neighbors house cause she is moving back down to Louisiana with her husband. She moved up here for two months cause they were having some problems, but they got everything worked out. We gave her husband a blessing because he was have some problems with his back.

Friday was our best day of teaching. We taught Brian + Leeann and we taught Gwynne in the afternoon and that night we taught Nouxay Keomany. He's a less-active member that we've been meeting with every week. Saturday we did a ton of biking. We went out to Bethel Heights which is about a 45 min bike ride. We did some tracting up there. We pretty much just did finding that whole day as well. Sunday we taught John + Mary. It had been a few weeks since we had seen them. He's still doing good. He has a lot of headaches and they said that is because the radiation is still working in him. They said it takes about a year for it to get completely out. We had dinner with the Berry's and the Hornbergers and the Harmons. They were having a big family get together and we were just going over there to get a picture with them
and they told us to stay. This morning we took our apartment pictures and Elder Barton and I took a companionship picture. We are going to put it on a Mug for Leeann.

It poured on us on Friday. It was raining buckets! We'd get soaked whenever we went from Dakota's truck to a door to contact our potential. Dakota is the Harmons boy that comes on exchanges with us. It was crazy how much rain we got in a short period of time.

I haven't gotten your letter for this week yet. It will probably be in the mail today. It takes about two days for the mail to get here.

Did you guys get the Birthday cards I sent? So it sounds like dad had a pretty awesome time with the 4th of July Celebrations at work. That's pretty funny about the band that came. Obviously they weren't thinking too hard about where they were going to be performing. There was a Less-Active member that was just telling us the other week about those new drugs that are legal. One of her sons was using it. It sounds really retarded to me.

Well everything is still going good here. We're going to go tie shopping at some thrift stores today.

I hope all continues to go well for you all. I love and pray for you all always!

Love Elder Joyner

Investigators:
Joe - We went over the Restoration again with him. He seems to be understanding it more each time we go over it. He gets distracted pretty easily sometimes. We are having dinner with him tonight. We are going to be using some visual aids to help keep him focused.

Roy + Dianne - We set a baptismal date with Roy this week. The date is scheduled for the 31st of July. We were hoping to set a date with Dianne as well. She just has a couple concerns that we need to get over first and then she said she might join. She was actually the one who first started talking about baptism. Roy has actually asked the bishop a couple times when he could get baptized.

Brian + Leeann - We talked with them again about commitments and why we come over. We showed them a copy of the Progress Record and asked them based on what they saw how they thought they were doing. Hopefully something clicked and they will start progressing again.

Gwynne - We read the intro to the Book of Mormon with her cause she told us that she wasn't too sure about it cause she didn't understand what it was. Her daughter walked in on the lesson towards the end. Gwynne told her that they were going to start reading the Book of Mormon every night together. Heather (her daughter) said that she wants to go to young womens as well. They didn't make it to church this week. We're not sure why yet.

That's all the investigators this week.