June 11th, 2013

Dear Family,

First of all congrats to Aubrey for having another baby while im on my mission ;) That is way exciting! Sounds like most everything is going good back home. Everything is going pretty good on this end. It has been another week of me using facebook and the whatnot. In case some of you have noticed that I am friends with people from back home just know that I am allowed and even encouraged to friend those people and do missionary work to them, so I am. Though I feel as though I am not getting anywhere with facebook. I feel like I should be teaching a bunch of people on there and also getting a bunch of referrals but I am not. I dont understand how I am supposed to use facebook effectively as a missionary work. It has taken some trial and error and a lot of effort into figuring out new things to try. It is a work in progress so far. If you have any ideas I am up to hearing them. I also beleive you can follow me on facebook. Dont friend me, but follow me that way you can see what I post but I dont see what you post and that kind of stuff.

Other than that the tech has been going pretty good. We also had a baptism last saturday for an 11 year old girl named Elisa. It went very well and a bunch of her less active family was there which was good. The work other than that has been a little slow up until yesterday where a few things started picking up.

There was a cool esxperience that happened to me last night. About a week ago we had dinner with these members and they had some friends that they were going to invite to meet with us. So yesterday we went by to follow up with them about that and see how far they have gotten with that. We show up and find that the husband has been very stressed and was really starting to lose it. He wanted a blessing so we gave one to him. It really helped him out and he felt the spirit. A blessing was just what he needed to get through this trial. It is just interesting to think that the Lord used us as tools to help one of His children out. We were needed to see that person at that time. The Lord works in mysterious ways. I am glad to have been apart of his plan.

I am short on time so I will have to end it here. I hope everything goes well for you this week. Dont forget the 23rd! It will be important! See you on the other side!

Elder Connell