A tutorial on transfers for Mom :)

Hi Mom,

It sounds like your having a good time yourself. I'm glad. Tell Ben to keep praying for an opportunity to work and faithfully keep looking. The way I found the job I got was by talking to people in the ward and also my friends. If he isn't talking to people then tell him to get the word out that he is looking for a job.

About Transfers. Every six weeks we have them and President Colton or soon to be President Summerhays and his assistants go in his office and look at this big wall with all the missionaries picture on it. I am on it right next to my companion Elder Welch, and we are separated into Zones. With transfers they prayerfully are guided by the Holy Ghost to decide who needs to be where and with what companion. The President has a whole lot of ways of deciding as well such as how long a missionary has been in the area or how well have the missionaries been getting along and a whole lot of other reasons. This last transfer was my first, and I stayed in the same area with the same companion. Next transfer I think that Elder Welch will be leaving me and going somewhere else. I will probably stay because I then can introduce the next Elder into the area and show him all the things that we do, and how things are different. I hope that makes sense. If it doesn't then you will see in time.

I am doing excellent! This week also like yours has been a hard one, but a whole lot better than last week. A lot of the people we are working with are not as sincere as those who we baptized last month. So we have to find out who is sincere and who is just looking for money. But this week we have made a lot of progress with a lot of people. We had 12 of our investigators come to church and 2 others that we need to get in contact with.

There is this one family that we have been trying for the past two weeks to contact. The fathers' name is Robert and his wife Karla and his son Sunshine. They are so cool and I love them so much. I met them at church and I immediately connected with them. I have taught them 2 lessons and we had a baptismal date with Robert. Then he missed church and our appointment fell through with him. After that no matter what we did to try and reach him or his family it was useless. I was so sad and depressed about it. I prayed every night for two weeks that I could just talk to him for one minute. This past Saturday my prayers were answered and we finally talked with him and had a joyful time in his home. That visit brought me so much joy and on top of that they all made it to church.

I have no time left to write all that I would like but know that I am doing good and I am having a lot of good growing experiences. I miss you so much. I love your guts.

-Elder Spencer D. Larson