That is one big spider! It's hard to tell how big, but it's a good sized one. (Referring to the black widow at our house). I might have told you about the brown recluse I saw at bishop's pond when we were helping him weed whack. It was stationary, and I didn't want to bother it. This past week went great. Nothing too big happened. We made some good contact with LA's, and our investigators are continuing to progress. We are actually going to teach one today! It's going to be an awesome lesson. Our mission did great these past couple of weeks. Hopefully we can continue to do great, and meet our goal for 400 baptisms this year.

I have a good story for y'all! So this past Friday we went to eat at the bishop's with the young men also. We had shrimp, fish, crawfish, oysters in all forms, raw, fried and grilled, and I was also able to try alligator for the first time! It was a hearty meal, and Bishop didn't make us take home any leftovers too! That was a big surprise. We talked, and just relaxed, and we got to talking about a time ago when bishop hid in the woods in his ghillie suit and nobody could find him. The boys were about to play night games, so I asked him, is your suit close at hand?

He unlocked the door to his hunting equipment and got out the suit for me and I put it on and went out into his fields. My plan was to sneak around behind the scouts to scare them, but I couldn't get past the lighted area to where they were at. I stood about fifty feet from where they were at, kneeling next to a tree trying to decide what to do next, until I saw Elder Blain and Elton walk to them telling them that I was hiding and to look for me. I was about to run back into his cotton fields, but it was too late, they were getting closer. I just stood leaning into the mid-sized tree watching them. My heart was pounding as they were walking straight towards me. I thought "It's going to be embarrassing when they find me after 3 minutes. I'm going to be ridiculed by the hunters for not choosing a better hiding spot", but I was stuck. They came within five yards and one of the kids said he saw me further into the field. They walked past thinking I was in the cotton field. I watched them as they looked around the spot I was in before, and continued into the edge of the cotton. There was some high lumpy grass that led a short distance to a tree and past that about fifteen yards to the cotton. When they were looking over in the cotton, I half crawled, half crouch-walked near the tree and I noticed they were coming back. This was my time to scare them. I crawled on the grass right in the middle of the path left of the tree and laid there watching them. But they all walked to the right of the tree, except Elder Blain, who chose my side. He was searching and looked right at me, and continued past. I thought he found me and didn't want to give me away, he was only five feet from me, how could he not see me? The scouts walked past a building and out of sight. I stood up and walked quickly to Blain. He was surprised and said, "There you are!" He quickly motioned me back down, but I wanted to pick a good spot this time to scare them. I shuffled to a spot on the other side of the building and laid in the short grass. Sure enough two kids started walking towards me. I heard him say that he was going to find me. He was waving his phone trying to use it's light. He walked closer and closer until his foot was only two feet from my head. He stopped and the other kid walked around close to me on my right. He said what the? And then he got excited and yelled, "I found him!" The other kid still didn't and said, "Where?" I hopped up and made him jump! They all ran over and asked me where I was hiding and some of them said, "I looked there!" The funny one was when I said I laid to the left of the tree and Elder B was surprised and said, "I walked by you?" That was a lot of fun, you wouldn't think that those suits would hide you that well. I had my experience with a ghillie suit, and I got a picture of it too! I think I'm going to buy one when I get home!

I'm definitely loving the members out here and I am very grateful for this change to help them in return. There are some people I could trust with my life down here, and in case of a civil war, they got the most guns! :)

Thanks for the information on Lexi! I will write her, and I do have some good stories, but I need to drag them out from the depths of my brain.... haha, it's hard to remember things that I used to do, especially music. Thanks again, Love you guys!