Welllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Ariana was interviewed for her baptism. She passed with flying colors. It AMAZES Elder Cluff and I at the progress she has made! She went from avoiding us, to listening to us from another room, to sitting in the same room, to commenting on the lessons, to actually praying! When we first asked her to pray it was like pulling teeth. Now she prays no sweat! Her love for the gospel increases each time I see her. It also helps to have her Mom, who was baptized less than a month ago, constantly bear testimony to her about how true this church is. We talked with Nina (Ariana's sister) about getting married... It seems like all of my emails talk about her getting married. Well, she is going to the courthouse today and getting the marriage papers. She is going to give them to her boyfriend and tell him to sign them so she can get baptized. HECK YA NINA! How can he say no to that?! haha!

We had Zone Leader Council on Thursday this last week and it was really intense! President Riggs is making a lot of changes in the mission! It's awesome! Change keeps us from becoming complacent. The success of this mission is going to skyrocket. President Riggs is such an incredible mission president (now, every missionary will say their president is incredible). He will always and forever be my mission president.

We have this new investigator named Bryan Brown. He calls himself "to be or not to be". He's a great guy and even came to church last Sunday. He's super weird though haha. He never looks at us when we have lessons. He looks at the wall to the right or left of us. One time he was even talking to us for a solid 6 minutes with his back to us. The guy is strange, but he is a child of God nonetheless. He is willing to make the changes in his life necessary to live a Christ-like life.

This week is a busy week with Zone Training, Interviews with President, and Ariana's baptism. For Zone Training we are going to have each missionary right down on a piece of paper how many months they have left on their mission. We are then going to give each of them a picture of Jesus Christ. We are going to talk to them about how much they can give to Jesus Christ in the time they have left. We hope it will give them a little fire under their butts get out there and work.

Elder Michael Litchfield