Having a blast!

hey guys! hope everyone is doing way good, im still having a blast of course.. but yeah i wont lie there are alot of difficult times probably everyday really.. but the good out weighs the bad! I got to baptize David Newkirk on saturday! woohoo! it was awesome.. Brother Newkirk is a life time convert.. and we know that as he prepares to get the aaronic priesthood (next week?) that he will be a tool in our Heavenly Father's hands to baptize his family! but taht was way cool, especially cause hes probably about 300 pounds and im probably about 112-115.. yeah i gained 5-8 pounds at the MTC and in the field i would say maybe another 5-8 pounds or just the same.. i dont know.. food is good here still havnt really had any southern food though.. we are teaching an awesome part member family.. i cant remember if i brought this up before but its the Dargan family just an older couple who have been married for about 3 months, they both had families in the past. Anyway the Husband is a member and served his mission in.. Ecquador? i dont know somewhere where he spoke spanish, and they both work at a hosptial thats how they met.. anyway they feed elder jones and i like crazy! like we dont even expect it (we know better now) but they feed us every single appointment we have! they are good people and his wife is coming along nicely, and she has quit smoking and stuff.. she has a baptism date setup for next weekend! the work has really been up and down alot latley.. sometimes we have awesome investigators but the next.. we dont.. to many people we meet just fall through.. we always commit to baptism on the first lesson (thats how the church does missionary work.. at least here and thats what they taught at the MTC).. since ive been out, here in sumter, we have probably commited like 20+ people who said "yeah, i will prepare to be baptized.." and yet.. they all fell through.. so there are deffinently some really depressing things in missionary work, especially when you know they felt the spirit and KNOW the message we share is true.. so about those pictures.. yeah sorry i changed my mind about it at walmart, elder jones said i should wait till i had more pictures, but today when we head out im going to try to email them from walmart if the camera thing works like that. i got a letter from dax, let him know i said thanks, that was way cool of him, but i probably wont get time to write him back yet!.. so to answer anyquestions lets see.. sumter is super gehetto, not REALLY in the country, and yet you only ahve to drive about 10-15 miles and you get right into the country.. that is of course where we hit that deer.. there are some "random" really nice and "rich" areas here.. the gehetto places are tough becuase the people ALWAYS listen pretty much and yet they ALMOST never seem to progress.. what else.... the weather has BEEN way cold but the last week it warmed up for some reason.. umm one of my least favorite things right now is getting up at 6:30 and then exercising pretty much right away.. its tough.. but really not THAT bad.. what i really enjoy is teaching the lessons and contacting people, that is fun! right now i really have mixed feelings everyday mostly like.. "we already have to do this?...; right now?; again?" but those are just like background feelings, not really thoughts.. and i cant wait to get out of that.. i think alot of it has to do with being "the new missionary" and the junior companion.. if i cant send the picutres today i will send them next week for reall! whats the status of sarahs baby? is anyone taking care of you guys while you're sick? is math dating someone.. oooooo! to answer bens question, i dont have any motab music at all.. so any would be welcome.. also any ties.. but i dont mean to beg or anything at all! i miss everyone and hope all are doing well.. how is asher? oh a recipe for no bake cookies would be awesome! and lets see.. umm a story...

yesterday we were contacting at the parking lot at walmart (sometimes you just have to do what you have to do.. and walmart is a good place to find alot of people in the parking lots, also just to let you know sunday is just like every other day regarding missionary work.)

but anyway one guy i came up to looked at me and asked me if i was a Jehova Witness, (we get that alot here, i think ive seen two of their churches here) and I said "nope im from the chruch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints".. and he was like.. "okay, okay." (in a nice old man type of way) then he said.. "let me ask you this, who is Jesus Christ, who do you believe he is?" so i told him "Well we beleieve that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the Son of our Heavenly Father.." and he says, "okay well what about the [three of them or the trinity] what about that?".. and I told him just how it was, "We beleieve that our Heavenly Father, our Savior Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost are all three sepereat beings.. then he looked at me KIND OF suprised and said "alright! you are doing really good [young man]!".. and then he just started walking away.. and I asked him if i could at least leave him with a card and he said no.. heh so that was kind of weird.. and boring i know.. but no one here in sumter really has a southern accent at all just so you know.. but anyway thats about it! oh and at the baptism with David, well lets just say "3rd times a charm".