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Dear Family and Friends,

Well life is treating me well.  I had a bit of a rough week, but things are definitely looking up and I am excited to push forward and not look back.  The work here in the Tempo Park ward is still going well, and we are being blessed a lot.  I am loving being with Elder Ashby because he is such an example to me, and when I make a mistake he gently reminds me of what I should be doing.  He does it in a way that wouldn't offend anyone, so I love that.  We are looking on changing a few bad habits that we have been getting together, and starting fresh this week.  We are going to be looking for the miracles that are going to be flooding in I hope!

So I have a couple of crazy stories for you.  First off Halloween night we were told to be home by 6 o’clock.  So it was that afternoon and I did not feel very good.  So we decided to go home so I could get feeling better.  We rolled in around 4:30pm and I went to sleep.  I woke up just before six, and my stomach hurt, in the end I threw up my lunch and went back to bed until like 9 then got up called the mission nurse and got some tips.  Went back to bed around 10 and slept until 9 the next morning.  It was nice to get rested up, and the nurse told me to take it easy.  So on Thursday we only went out for a couple of lessons in the evening.  

Really Crazy Story...  So we were riding our bikes towards our dinner on Sunday afternoon.  As we rode through Tempo Park which is a regular thoroughfare for us in our area, we came across a large group of people who appeared to be of Hispanic descent.  There were about 15 of them walking in a big group through the park.  We rode around them and as we did both of us thought, oh they must have just wrapped up a soccer game.  As we went past the fields and back into the wooded part of the park we came across two more of these gentlemen.  One seemed fine, but the other seemed like he had just gotten his face smashed in.  He was bleeding and he looked pretty beat up.  They were both walking and I was a little nervous so we said hello and just rode on.  When we got to the other side of the park there was a group of older folks who were all standing there like something bad had happened.  Some of them had seen those some gentleman we had, when they were in a bit of a gang fight.  Gun shots were heard just a few minutes before we went riding happily through the park.  It was pretty scary and we have altered our night time riding route so that we won't be in the park!  By the way this all happened in broad daylight!  

Life is good and we are being protected and blessed.  I love this area it is great!

Elder Ellsworth