WHAT'S UP!!!!!!!!

(at his farewell)

Well family and friends its TRANSFERS and I am going to..................................... Just kidding I am not going any were. I am staying right were I am AGAIN and I am happy about that. I still have my great comp. Elder Garfield to be my companion as well, so it should be a great next transfer. I am excited about the changes that have taken place. We have a new bishop, his name is Bishop Mercaferty. I tell you what that must be so hard to do. I have only seen this happen twice, but here you are you are having all these great spiritual experiences and you know the members so well and now you have to leave it all. I know that it has to happen but I am just sad to see Bishop Rueckert leave. I just got to know him and he was a great man, what am I saying? He still is a great man. He made a joke saying that now he could grow that handle bar mustache that he has always wanted. Well he will be missed because not only is he not the bishop anymore he is moving also, so I won't get to see him. Anyways that sacrament was the most spiritual sacrament I have ever attended. I felt the spirit so strong, I was just a mess at the end of this song. It was called "My Lord My Redeemer." I really felt the spirit testify to me that what just happened was for good and it needed to happen. I can't wait for this new change, I really can't. I can feel it deep down in my bones some thing good is about to happen. I want to thank you all for helping me on my mission. You all have been wonderful in helping me and I know that you will be blessed for that. I want you all to know that my mission means every thing to me and I never want there to be day that goes by that I regret or ask myself, could I have done better? No I will work work work, and I will never look back. I love this gospel and I know it is true by the power of the Holy Ghost. I will keep you all in my prayers and again thank you for all you do, your hard work will not go unnoticed. I love you all and hope to here from you all soon.

(A little shout out to Simba and now I guess Patrick, the goat, welcome to the family. Simba you take care of your self and get up and move around get that blood flowing you need to move. And I love you to you are a great dog. Be good and take care of yourself.)

love you all love elder black

It's that time again.

(beach '07)

Dear family and friends,

Well not to much to report here. I have recently written to you and there not much has happened since. I am loving my mission. I love the people here they are so nice. I love my comp.

There is this boy that is in the ward that is in my ward and he is going on a mission soon. He leaves next week and he is going to Madagascar. I think that would be a lot of fun, that is were I wanted to serve my mission. Anyway we are going to work him hard though before he leaves for his mission. Well like I said not much to report. Well there is this man who after 30 years of investigating the church he finally will be baptized. He came to a baptism and after wards said that he wanted to do the same and now he will be baptized this week. I am so excited for him and I know he is stoked too. It will be grate.

Well hope all of you are doing well. I love you and miss all of you.

love elder black

Elder Black Is Great.

WOW Elder Rock Black Is a great companion i just wanted all of you to know that He's doing great. I'm elder Garfield. His current companion he's doing great. He has been getting allot of great support from the Whole family. Keep up the great work. He's told me all about you You are a great family he's showed me all of his pictures of you all you all look great. A family ordained of god. GREAT KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!. He loves doing this work. I'm so thankful i have this opportunity to work with him in the mission field. Elder Black And I along with the Spirit are very excited. I Just wanted you to all know He's doing great.

Elder Garfield

I will go find that bush and destroy it.

(clean car awards)

Hey family and friends hope all is well!!! Well news to report..... first off I hope every one had a good forth of July. I did the most you could do as a missionary. We stayed up tell 12:00 pm and cracked glow sticks with your comp. (very lame) and even that was pushing it we are supposed to be in bed by 10:30 pm. Well we had to party after all it was the forth of July!!! So anyway I saw a really cool parade (spelling?) going through down town Bel-Air it way cool my fav. part was the police force.

Well I can't say it enough, my comp. is awesome. I make his bed every morning (if that's not love I don't know what is I, even make him breakfast) he tries to help me out, but I won't let him. He just bought a grill so we have fun using that. We just bought fish, burgers, hot dogs, and steak. We will eat like kings for this month. Well what else can I talk about? The mission is starting a new way of teaching and our mission is the dummies for it. I guess that's OK but this all so means that president interviews are only going to be once every quarter, that means only four times out of the year will I be able to talk to my mission president! That is insane I need to talk to my mission present at least once a transfer. Well I will have to do what he said and that is to "buck up" and "quit my belly akin." What they are trying to do is have us rely more on the lord and teach with more "power and authority." So I guess that's a good idea.

So we have some new investigators. We have 5 total (not a very big teaching pool), but we're working on it. We just found 2 new gators (that's what we call them for short). They're names are Tammie and Pete and both are way solid. We are going to have Kristen, one of our older investigators, come with us to the temple. That will be so sweet!!!! I pray she will feel the spirit there. I got attacked by a bush the other day and my arm is pretty cut up, but I was able to mend all my wounds and I will go find that bush and destroy it. That bush is so going down!!! By-the-way, this was during morning exercise.

So many of you may wonder why I am writing to you on a non-Pday. Well I will tell you: THE STUPID LIBRARY'S WERE ALL CLOSED AND THE MAIL WAS CLOSED TOO!!! SO why I am writing to you today is because I had zone conference and had a crazy day also flowing that thus, this is why I am writing to you all today! Also we won the clean car award in zone conference. This would be the second time for that. Also Vince, one of our investigators, is getting interview for baptism! I hope and pray all goes well with that. He is a really sweet guy, he needs to be baptised! I wont be there though, but I know all will go well even with my presents not there.

So I want to know whats going on? Tell me every thing!

I want you all to know that this work is so true and that it is the best/hardest work I have ever done. Not only is it challenging mentally, but also spiritual and physical. But I know that whom the Lord calls he qualifies and I know that when the Lord calls my name I will answer the call of the Lord. May the Lord bless you all.

love elder black