Elder Benjamin Larson

Dad,

I hope you’re having fun with the fireworks. I really appreciate your last letter, it really helped me. There are a lot of people that I am working with and I have grown to love all of them; even the crazy ones. But I know what you mean about the people rejecting our invitation, after coming so close. Joyfully after a while many of them have made it back to church.

This week has been a very interesting week. On p-day the 28th, we had our whole zone in the gym playing dodge ball and Steal the Flag with tennis balls and it was a blast; until I beamed my companion, Elder Welch, in the eye. It was a very hard throw and I felt horrible. It got a little better, but Thursday morning at 1am he woke me up and said he was in a lot of pain and he couldn’t see out of his eye. I thought “oh crap.” So we went to Tampa General Hospital to the emergency room and stayed there until 8:30 am. So while Elder Welch was stuck in bed I went out with Elder Gate my district leader. It was a new experience for me to take over my area for awhile, but I had a blast. I even set a baptismal date with a man named Steve Morris. All of this stuff happened while we were getting a new mission president, President Summerhays. His wife about had a heart attack when I called her 1 am in the morning, but everything is alright. Elder Welch is turning back into his usual charming self. Everyone in our ward and in our mission knows about what happened. Word spreads fast.

Well, I am loving it out here and I am learning so much . . .


-Elder Spencer D Larson