Email received February 25, 2014

Hey all,

We had an ok week. Still trying to get our footing here in this new area. I didn't get chased by dogs this week! That was good. However, my companion had two flat tires this week. He's just not having the best of luck haha. Well the highlight of this week was in a lesson with Laura. I was in the middle of asking her if she's been able to pray to know if the Book of Mormon and the church are true. She cut me off mid sentence saying "It's true, I know it's true." Hearing people say something like that will make you a type of happy that you didn't even know existed. It's hard to explain. Well that's the best part that happened this week. Our ward had a total of 3 investigators at church yesterday. There is a lady named Paula who I have been trying my whole entire mission to get to come to church. The sister missionaries in our ward just recently got a car. When they did, we passed Paula off to them since there isn't another male in the house and we could never go inside. Well, the sisters had one lesson with her, and she was at church on Sunday. It just goes to show that sisters know what they are doing and we clearly do not. Haha.

Church was really great. Laura really enjoyed it and I think Paula did as well. The sisters have a baptism this Saturday. He's a 19 year old kid and he's awesome. I've been asked to sing at the baptism and I have no idea what to sing. I'm stressed out about it haha. I don't want to sing "Come Thou Fount" because I just did a couple of weeks ago. Oh well, I'll figure something out. We are going to meet with Laura twice this upcoming week and hopefully we can help her progress. We are working really hard on getting her fiance to sit down and talk with us. Hopefully that will happen. Well, I know that this was a lame letter. I'm doing alright. I miss you all and would love to hear from anyone reading this. Have a great week!

Elder Steed

Elder Valdez and I at service. This guy is seriously one of my favorite people ever. I look really skinny. It's an allusion :)

 So we did service where we painted a house. Elder Su'a and Elder Valdez were scared to get down. It was funny haha.