September 3, 2007

(hand written, received 9/7/07)

 Dear people,

Today is a national holiday so the Jones Center and the Springdale Library are closed. No email today. Stupid national holidays. You’re all probably living it up, taking your day off.

We have a Marshallese couple progressing towards baptism. I’m not sure exactly what’s going on, but things seem to be going well. Ashley called at 11 AM today letting us know that she’s going to Missouri for a while to split up with her husband. I gave her the number to the mission office so that she can get into contact with the missionaries.

It’s a hassle trying to merge part of two mission areas together. I’ve got a ton of stuff that I need to sort through and figure out what to do. I feel like I’m at a satisfactory point where I can take a short break, though. I’ve got most of the important things done, at least. I feel lika a college student more than ever now. Elder Whitney and Elder Waller are the English missionaries and I feel like I just got a couple of roommates and received so inheritance from my last ones. It makes it difficult to help the desire to do missionary work sometimes.

But, I’m almost halfway done. No sense in giving up if I’m this far, right? That’s all I can think of for now. See you next week!

Elder Bradshaw

PS I’ve just noticed that there’s an eerie feeling walking into Kmart…..