Josh had transfers again this week, he is still in Bellafontaine but changed companions. His new companion is Elder Young from New Mexico & he is training again. He says that he feels so inadequate to train, but that he will do his best. He is such a humble Elder. he lost two of his favorite missionaries at transfers. He only told me about one of them though, Elder Diaz who is from Kearns. He was Josh's zone leader since he has been out & now is coming home. Josh says it is getting a lot colder there. The pictures he sent are of two of his other favorites, Elder Pridgen & Elder Nielson. The thought for the day he left was "We are so tremendously blessed for what we have and what we know!" What a great missionary!

Elder Soffe & Elder Nielson (Riverton High School)

Elder Pridgen

Elder Rejas, Elder Soffe, Elder Nielson, Elder Pridgen & Sister Thompson

The Elders before Transfers

So Josh misses his "brothers" heasked me if in the next package I would send him a Tongan Book of Mormon. He says it will help him dive deeper into the Book of Mormon. He says it's chilly right now on Ohio, so he is sporting his old man vest & not to brag but that he makes it look good. He wants to know if he looks more like Mr. Landeen or Mr. Rogers. Leave a comment & I'll let him know which one. His thought for the week is Where True Joy and Happiness comes, it has all the answers to life's questions!

Stop, Hammer Time

Mr. Landeen or Mr. Rogers?

He actually eats this stuff. He says notice it's lite, he's watching his figure.

"Furbiak" from his big sister Lars.

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.