Howdy,

So this past week was great.  We had the baptism for Sis. Smith and the missionary that baptized her daughter 8 years ago came back to perform the baptism.  He also brought his family and turned out that they were related to Elder Shields through marriage; he was ‘wierded’ out quite a bit.

We also had a conference with Pres. Ashton and his family on Wednesday and then on Friday he joined Elder Shields and me for companionship study.  It amazed me how he studies the scriptures and it helped me realize that I can do a lot better at feasting upon the words of Christ.  We also had lunch with him and were able to talk more about his vision for the mission.  His big focus is to help us delve deeply into the scriptures so that we can have the spirit of prophecy and revelation.

Anywho, things are going great.  Keep up the great missionary work!

Love, Elder Cooley