"The Future Only Looks Bright"

Dear Family and Friends,

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SOOOOO!!! We got the Interesting news of the mission changing and yes we are probably losing the whole east side of our mission. But we won’t know for sure until later. Elder Clayton of the presidency of the seventy came and told us the news. And gave us some awesome information! i learn so much whenever we get a general authority. WE will also get a new mission president. President Robert E. Chambers; A religious teacher at BYUI. i don’t know him though. But this just means with all the new missionaries and them splitting up the missions everyone will be training a lot! And we will all be getting leadership positions probably! I’m the 3rd oldest in our district aside from the district leader and his companion, so I’m a little worried about getting more leadership positions. I could also go to the east mission. The president there will be president Eberheart i think. He’s from a sandy stake. He was the president there.  Very exciting times! I’m excited for Washington! i honestly didn’t know there was that much success there. But that really cool! i am excited to see the changes.

This last week was okay. No baptisms but we worked hard and found a new investigator.  We tried to teach a lot. In March it looks pretty good, 4 people who i would say look pretty good have dates. But that also means we are going to lose 4 investigators! haha so we have to do a lot of finding next month. We are riding our bikes more because it is warmer and on those days we have way more success. We move a lot faster and everything is just dandy.

So we had an awesome Blizzard for like 2 hours! i was having so much fun! i made elder bennett walk in it with me to our lesson. i wanted to walk but we had two rides there an i turned them down! haha i was enjoying it. I basically skipped and sang the whole way there! I’ll send an awesome picture of me in the snow.

I am very surprised to hear about Grandma! i didn’t know about the fast however i did fast last Saturday and hopefully the Lord knows where i would like those blessings to go. Grandma will stay in my prayers. Keep her healthy until i get home. I will need her to tell me more about family history because i am kind of just getting interested and probably will be interested by the time i get home.

This is truly an amazing age to live in! The signs of the times are here! i know it is. Things are happening way too fast. All the missionaries are kind of pumped! These next 5 years will be great. The future only looks bright and many hearts will be softened by the Lord. He is preparing the people for us to find. i can see that in the people that we do teach. They are ready and we are looking to make real growth and we will be working hard to bring others back into the fold. I gave a talk on becoming a true disciple of Christ. i thought it was one of my best talks ever. I could tell people were captivated. People need to and see that they can’t stand idle especially here in Zion where it needs to be so much stronger than what it is.

Anyways Love you all take care.

Love Elder Salmon