Dear Shanell,

For p-day last week we did our laundry and then lifted weights and played racquetball. Then we sat in a hot tub. It felt nice. At noon we had a trade-off and Elder Larsen went with Elder Fusselman to play cricket and I went with Elder Hendrix to chop some wood for an elderly lady. She tried to pay us, but we told her cookies and pop would be enough. It felt so good serving her! I had a great time chopping wood with Elder Hendrix. He is a great elder! After we left there we went shopping at Rundle Mall which is a giant outdoor mall with outside escalators. We had a district meeting later and it was good! I am having a hard time out here. Missions are not easy and I've wanted to come home many times. I talked to President and Sister Wells about that problem and the helped me come to the conclusion that I should take one week at a time and see how I feel. I love my mission, I just feel very down and depressed right now. We went tracting for an hour today and taught one discussion to Hoa, Chung, and Hien. They are Vietnamese and don't speak much English. We also got one new investigator whose name is Karen. She is living with her boyfriend's family and wants to take the discussions.

On Friday I set a goal to get along well with all of my companions. I know this will help me in all aspects of my life. Elder Fusselman and I went tracting and got 3-4 call-back appointments. Then we taught a discussion to Karen.and the Spirit was there.

On Sunday we took the Sacrament to Grahm in her home and went to visit Lilly. She is the lady that has the friend that told her not to read the Book of Mormon. She asked us not to come back, but when we went there she invited us in. It was nice talking to her and I think she'll let us come back.  We also ate tea at the Griffins and it was great! Then we taught the "Ben" family and showed them "Families Are Forever". They enjoyed it.

Monday was "motivation day" to motivate every companionship to baptize in July! That is the mission goal. We had some other elders over to have breakfast together and everyone helped. We played softball and soccer and then had homemade root beer and sloppy joes at the party. It was fun! After we ate, we had a bunch of skits put on by each zone. Ours went quite well. We did a skit of 2 greenie missionaries learning about how the mission is really run. We used slides with it. It was quite funny! After the skits, we watched "Victory". It was an excellent movie! We ended the day by teaching the Ben family the 2nd discussion and having tea. It went well.

We weeded Jasna's front yard and visited Karen and Josey on Tuesday.

Love,
Elder Wallentine