Hola! (Sept. 1st email)

 Hola familia mia!

This week was good, and this coming week will be great! We have been talking to a lot of people and it has been fun, although you meet a couple crazies here and there. There are many people ready for the gospel here, and we are super excited! A lady we have never seen showed up with her kids to church yesterday. She talked to missionaries in Iowa 3 days before she moved here last week. So that was a big miracle! The Lord is sending many blessings to this area. We talked to this one guy who is basically the equivalent of a stake president in the Pentecostal church! That was interesting. He like started prophesying to us at the end which was different. We had a really good conversation with him though and got to testify of the Restoration. He said his name was Elder Poe and he was way cool.

I also got to give a talk in the branch yesterday on missionary work, so that was fun. Hopefully not too boring ;)

Elder Graham is great and we are doing work together. It will be a good transfer! I am not still training! When I left Lodi the training was over :)

We have been trying to clean up a little the house! It has been pretty good. Makes me feel better :P Brother Winchester has been awesome this week, we are really getting along with him. The areas got figured out and we are staying in the same one! They just re-split it but basically nothing changed for us. Which is good!

That is amazing to hear about the FHE and that they were all able to come! Hopefully they could feel God's love there. I hope the open house goes well :) I need pics :)

Thanks for all the updates!! I can't believe that Michael Fralick and Kelsea are getting married. Hahaha that is just so insane. Blows my mind! I guess we are kind of growing up??

That video of Emily cracked me up. You guys are awesome :)

Stay off the roads!!!! ;)

Yeah I guess the drought is bad. I have determined that God is just going to dry it out and burn California down ;) Just kidding it isn't that bad of a place. It was good though because Elder Graham, as we were pulling out of the driveway was like "Ya know, we kindof live in a ghetto neighborhood a little..." And I was like "ehhh kindof maybe" and then a car pulled in front of us to a guy standing outside, and sold some drugs as we passed him haha. It was hilarious. It really isn't bad though. It is nice.

Love you guys so much! You are all amazing and the best. I hope you have a great week. Keep up the good work :) Love and miss yall,

Elder Stone