Dear Family,

Mission life is great now that I have a companion that wants to work!  He's from Texas and he is a pretty good guy!We have a goal of door-knocking more hours than any other companionship from October 28 to November 3! With the Lord's help, we can do it! There are discouragements out here. I appreciate the poem about not quitting! It says, "When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, when the road you're traveling seems all uphill, when the funds are low and the debts are high, and you want to smile, but you have to sigh. When cares are pressing you down a bit, rest if you must, but don't you quit!" It has helped me a lot! I guess if we didn't have the bad times, we would not appreciate the good. We just had our two investigators ask us not to bother coming back. We are still going back to one of them. We don't give up that easy.

Nobody back there has been writing to me. The only people still writing to me is my family, Carmacks, Randalls, and occasionally, your family. I guess everyone is pretty busy. I really do wish the members would take time out and write though! Maybe a mission shows who your true friends are.

The weather is starting to warm up here. We are just going into summer. It will be weird to spend Christmas in the summer. I really enjoy reading my scriptures and am in Corinthians now. Today we had a correlation meeting with the ward mission leader and we straightened out the area handbook. Today has been busy! I loved it! We tried to get a hold of some people named Bob and Alice Rose to invite them to church. They weren't home so we left a note saying we would drop by tomorrow.

I appreciate all the support you give me. I love my mission and know the church is true!

Love,
Elder Wallentine