Sat 7/16/05 2:40 AM

Dear Family,

We arrived home last night from our third Zone Conference. All of them were very uplifting. There is new hope and faith in all of the missionaries. Now if we can get the members to feel the same way great miracles will happen. Under inspiration we took the direction from multiple members of the Quorum of the Twelve to " honor the prophet Joseph Smith by preparing some to teach " before his 200th birthday on 23 December 2005. We have all of the missionaries preparing a spiritual lesson on him to teach to the members. After the lesson they are to ask them to follow the direction of the brethren by preparing someone to teach. The missionaries will also have to teach many of the members to pray to Heavenly Father to open up the way and lead someone to them. I know this will work because of the spiritual witness that I received. I have interviewed all of the missionaries in our first two weeks also. We have the best missionaries in the world. Not all of them are perfect yet, but neither am I. Ferre's and Hansen's you will absolutley love it here. Aaron it was great to here from you. Pat thanks for the ranch update. I know life will be better with a different hay bailer. Nothing could be as bad as the last one. It deserves retirement. However, it is worth $500 just for parts to someone so sell it if you can. Jay keep our emails in a scrapbook if you can. It will give us a journal of our mission. We did go to a cave a week ago like Mt Timpanogos, but I think I told you about that. If others of you did not get that email then talk to one of the other of you to get an update. Next week we have a mission counsel meeting with the leaders of the mission and we have a youth conference.

Love Dad