Hey Mom! 

Well P-day has rolled around again. That is crazy.

It has been busier for sure haha. Just more responsibility and meeting. We are hanging in there!  Yea of course we still proselyte a lot. We do go about 6 hours or so. It is long but I enjoy it for sure! Yea so Elder Riley is a cool guy and likes to water ski and all that stuff haha which he has the feet for it! I told him that. He is a little shorter than me but wears a size 15 shoe! Bigger than Ryan. We get along just fine. He is the oldest I believe in his family and a great missionary. He went to BYUI before coming out and worked. He actually goes home 1 transfer before me because he came out 2 transfers before me.  Everything is going well. We had a good week. Found a couple new people and trying to get things set up. No main focus right now on anyone per se, but it is getting there. We had a great Conference Call with all the Cherry Hill stake the other night on how we can better do missionary work basically. We gave some training on it. The mission Presidency was on it and everything. It went real well. Also, the exchange in Camden was so much fun! I want to serve there so bad. The members are so wonderful, and we do work with part of them so I'll definitely be back over that way. It was a great exchange. I went with a Elder Knuth. He is from San Fran and came in in the same group as Elder Wasden. He is a good Elder for sure. I would love to serve with him. We did have that dinner at Bishops and the Branch President of the English Branch even though he is Puerto Rican. But he speaks English without an accent cause he has been here since he was 8. Awesome guys. They married twin sisters actually haha. So it has been a real good week. I got to get to know them better. Then we had a ward BBQ this past Saturday which went well. We got some investigators and people brought lots of friends. It was a great turnout but I think I got food poisoning or something. So today we are taking it easy cause Elder Riley has it as well. MLC which is missionary leadership council was Friday which went awesome as well. That is just for the Zone leaders and Sister trainer leaders so I saw Elder Weisler(Jake) again. They miss having me in their Zone. That was real long. It is cool cause we cross the Benjamin Franklin bridge and drive through Philly. So that is always fun. So a lot went on this past week! I'm excited to be here, and hope I stay a while. They feed us pretty well here as well. But that is what is going on! I have a cools picture to send you as well because the Camden Elders live in a nice apartment and you have a view of the Philly Skykine from it.

Yeah! It was so much fun. We talked to some very interesting people. The drug scene there is so bad. There are actually two apartment complexes where we are basically not allowed to go. Supposedly the life expectancy if you live in them is 5-6 months. I can't remember the name right now of them but it is a scary place for sure.

 

Well I'm excited for all of them (all his friends leaving on their missions in the next few months). The mission has been great.  Next time I'll see everyone will be at the end of my mission! It's hard to believe it is less than a year though and that it is August. I do not know where the time goes! 

I feel like summer just started for everyone! Now it is coming to an end. Goodness! I am even not wanting it to end for them haha. I feel I will do so much better next year fore sure. 

 

I'm excited to hear who they (new apostles) will be! Elder Hopkin definitely has the updates on him (Elder Scott) cause well it's his great uncle haha. Well I love you mom and talk to ya again soon! If you get pictures please send them! 

Love, 

Elder McArthur