Dear Family, How are all of you doing? I am doing just fine right now. So this week - what have we been up to? Well, let's see. The new member lessons have been started with our most recent convert. She has such great home teachers. Our ward mission leader was released from his calling and put into the Sunday school presidency. Now we are ward mission leader-less. Hopefully they will call one real soon. We had a really good week full of lessons -a total of 22! We took with us an 18 year old girl, who is thinking to go on a mission, with us a couple of times now. She is so good. She is prepared to serve. And we just love her and her family. They are so good. Her older brother, who is 21, is serving a mission here with us in the California Roseville Mission. He has something...like cerebral palsy...I don't even know if I spelt that right. His body doesn't quite work right, but he is so smart and funny - his brain is all there. He uses a walker to get around. Each day of his mission, he spends with a different set of elders that use a car. He is such a great asset to our mission. One of the elders said about him, "There is no reason, no excuse we can make for not going on a mission. If Elder Barney can do it, anybody can." He is such a good little example. We had a few lessons with some of our investigators. It was a couple of our elders birthdays this last week. We made them cake and cards to celebrate. We had a zone meeting. It was really good. We talked about how the Doctrine of Christ is our foundation, that is what our faith and testimony are built upon; and through that our gospel knowledge increases, we have a good work ethic, we are obedient, and we have a good attitude. There was a little drawing that went with it...but can't really draw that on this email. One day. But we talked about how we need to consistently work on those 4 things. They help build and upkeep our testimony and faith in Christ. All of it is essential. Something else I thought and pondered and heard about this week was due to the new age limit of sister missionaries. We are in the last days. We need to prepare and be strong in the face of adversity. The Lord has lowered the age of sister missionaries to build and prepare mothers for these last days. Missions will help train mothers for the last days. The mothers of this time need to be strong in the gospel of Jesus Christ. We are facing hard times in these days. The world around us is falling into Satan's traps. He is pulling down the values and morals of society. He is pulling down the goodness, taking away the peace. But we can maintain all of that ourselves if we build upon the foundation - the doctrine of Christ. We can have peace. We can have happiness. But we need to be strong. Prepared. Missions help strengthen testimonies. Missions help build the soul of the missionary. I have learned so much from my mission. Missions are a blessing; a key to strengthening the character, the testimony of a soul. The worth of souls is great in the sight of God. I know that my mission has been a blessing to me, is still a blessing to me, and will continue to be a blessing to me. It has not only affected my life, but my current family's lives and I know it will continue to affect my future family's life. Missions are a blessing. They build are character and help us prepare for the future days of this life - the latter days - the last days. I am so grateful for this opportunity. So grateful. Thank you for all your help and support in letting me coming out here. This life is the time to prepare ourselves to become better and to meet God. A mission has helped me with that. Well, thank you again. I love you all so much! You are all wonderful. Wonderful, inspiring, and lovely people. Thank you for being part of my life. Love you tons and bunches! Your sister missionary, Sister Walston