So this week in Josh's e-mail, he said that his new apartment in Belafontaine is really pretty nice & big. It has a basement & an upstairs & they are the only two missionaries out there. They are in a branch now. He says that he & his companion are still getting along well, so that is good. He went on exchanges a few days ago with an Elder named Elder Wright that went to Davis & he was actually roomates with one of Josh's buddies Hau Pikula back at USU, so that was kind of cool for him. Other than that, he says that he is doing well & asks us to pray for him! I will hopefully give another update next week!

So I have been awful at keeping up on this blog & I apologize. Two weeks ago Josh sent an e-mail saying this: "Well so there are many surprises in store it has been an eventful week!! I will start off by telling you I am no longer in Marble Cliff I am in Bellefontaine now!! Last Friday afternoon I received a phone call from President Jensen asking me if I would do a big favor for him!! There was an emergency and he asked me if I would come to Bellefontaine and finish training a relatively new elder because his companion had to go home! So I am here finishing training Elder Montgomery from Colorado ! He is cool and has a lot of Gospel knowledge already but it is crazy our combined ti me out in the field is like 7 months! So we are both continually learning and growing!" I thnk he must be a pretty incredible missionary to already be a senior companion & a trainer. His mission president must have a lot of faith in him. He seems to get a long with his comp too if you can't tell by the pictures. I will put his new address on the side bar for anyone who wants to write him.

Josh & his new comp Elder Montgomery

It looks like they will have fun together

Josh sent these pictures of him in the Civil War Cemetary because it seems like whenever we go on family vacations we would always have to stop at some war cemetary ar a mortuary or something because my dad knew somone & he is obsessed with war history. I thnk Josh also felt kind of bad that he missed out on our family pictures that we took up it a cemetary in Park City, so he decided to take his own.

You can't really see him, but he is standing next to the big rock.

The Civil War Cemetary

This is Josh's District just after transfers.

Well, we heard from Josh on Mother's day and he sounds great! He is happy and healthy and enjoying his mission. He says he misses the MTC though, he gained 7 pounds there and has lost about 15 since then. He says it's hard to live off of food that he knows how to make. We also get weekly e-mails from him and he says he really misses his friends! He wants all of the brown boys to come to the Soffe's and have a karaoke night! I don't know if he wants me to sya this, but he also always said that he was not going to get married and that he would live with my parents forever, but he says now that he will be like Justin and be married within a couple months of when he gets home and he can't wait to sit around with Doug and their spouses and be lazy toegether! He obviously doesn't know what married life entails! Josh gad his first baptism about a week ago and says that it has been incredible to watch how it has impacted this boys life. Here are some pictures that he sent today, Enjoy!