Mother's Day Phone Call

Hi everyone, since yesterday was Mother's Day we didn't really get much of a letter today. I guess Elder Ellsworth figured we talked about everything yesterday. I thought I would include a run-down of our phone call and what we learned.

We had a great phone call, we talked to Nick for about 80 minutes! He had an opportunity to talk to each of his siblings individually! It was so wonderful to hear from him. He sounds great!

Nick loves his new area. He says Mount Shasta is absolutely beautiful! The mountain is right near him, lots of trees and lakes too. His areas includes 5 small towns including the towns of Lake Shastina and Weed. All five towns make up the ward in Mt. Shasta.  So you can imagine that the missionaries are doing a lot of driving these days.  In fact his mileage allowance is 1800 miles a month. He is already worried about mileage this month because last week they drove 400 miles.

He is in the Redding District, so whenever they have district meetings (every Tuesday) they have to drive an hour south to Redding. They usually go on Monday and participate in the P.D. activity and then they stay overnight for the meetings.

They had two baptisms this week and they had to leave their mission for the baptisms.  There is no font in Mt. Shasta so they have to go to Yreka, which is part of the Eugene Oregon mission.  Nick is hoping that they get to go to Yreka frequently!

Nick's most exciting news was that his old companion, Elder McAllister, called this past week to tell him that the Griffith family has committed to baptism. They will be baptized on June 4th. He is pretty excited, they worked with the Griffith's quite a bit. The dad is already a member (although inactive before the missionaries found them), the mom and three kids will all be baptized.  Nick and Elder Brown will be allowed to travel to Cottonwood for the baptism. He is really excited about that!

Nick really loves his new companion. Once again however, he got a new companion who is sick.  Poor Elder Brown has been sick for a couple of weeks and Nick ended up getting it as well.  They are both feeling better and are determined to work hard to build up their teaching pool.  I guess the previous missionaries didn't leave them with very many contacts, so they will be working hard to find new investigators.


Well, that is about all the news that I can think of! It was so fun to talk to Nick and we look forward to hearing from him again next week. He sends his love and appreciation for everyone that has written him. He loves you all.

Liz