Thirty Two

Molly asked Eric if the woman he helped last week came back to the library for more help.

Eric replies:

Yes she did come back.  Her name is Sandra.  And she'll be back tomorrow as well.

All I did was ask here what she knew and typed that into FamilySearch and for some reason it was the first person that came up.  From that I was able to to find a microfilm with more information, then we used that method until the generations kept flowing in.  I don't know if it's what I did or if she was lying to me when she said she's tried familysearch before (she seems to forget things very easily) or if the name was just indexed like in this video right here:

http://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2013-03-01-familysearch-indexing-is-vital?category=family-history&lang=eng

Molly asked Eric if he received his iPod that we loaded with Mormon Tabernacle Choir songs and Conversational Swedish lessons.

Eric replies:

No I haven't gotten my iPod back but it will probably be here today if you've sent it.

Molly told Eric about Becca finally getting her driver's license and driving her sisters to the University Mall.

Eric says:

Yes that is big news for Becca and she's told me about it.  Everybody's told me about it.  Because, well, it's big news.  I'm surprised she's already confident enough to drive on the freeway if that's the route she took to the mall.

Molly is coaching Katie's soccer team and is 2-0 on the season so far.

Eric says:

It's cool that your soccer is having success. I recall you saying you wouldn't be good at it but both you and Katie are giving good reports so far.

We saw an article in the Deseret News about Elder Olsen in Eric's mission. The article is about how he can accurately type 180+ words per minute. Click here if you are interested in reading the article.

Eric says:

You might find this exciting but Elder Olsen was in my district.  He is one of the coolest and most interesting persons I've ever met.  He can type 200 wpm, and I've seen it with my own eyes.  He also has an incredible memory when it comes to numbers.  If you tell him your birthday he will never forget it.  I'm serious, he greeted me by saying, "Elder Larson! 3-4-93!"

But about that article, we were actually pretty upset to hear about it.  We have a pretty strict rule in our mission when it comes to nicknames, as it shows disrespect for your calling as a missionary.  So when we found out that his zone leaders managed to send in a Deseret News article with a big blazing title of "Elder Awesome!," we kind of panicked.  I told Elder Davis about it and he said that the mission presidency was aware of it, and had already talked to who needed to be talked to.  The biggest problem in our mission right now is the senior missionaries misunderstanding of our mission rules, and things like this happen.  Oh well, the intentions were good it's just unfortunate that rules were broken.

Alright so I have some big news concerning my mission as well so here it is:
We had our young missionary conference last Wednesday and President Workman made a huge announcement concerning how we are going to be doing things in our mission.  He said that as he was interviewing all the elders over the past month, he was startled to find how little of them seemed to understand gospel principles.  He found this pretty sad, considering we're missionaries and all.  So this was his solution: us elders as companions are now going to be teaching.  We're not going to be teaching investigators, but we are going to have a senior missionary couple assigned to us every week and we're going to be teaching them lessons from Preach My Gospel as companions.  It's still new and we're trying to work out more details but that's a very exciting announcement and I'm really excited to be teaching.  (Well I already teach because I'm a district leader but most elders don't, now they're going to have an even better missionary experience.)

I also got a letter from Sister Mariah Johnson, she's in Finland now and already has some really cool stories that I'm not going to tell you because I forgot to bring her letter with me and I forget what she said.  So take that.

Anyway, I think that's all that I have.

Love ya lots more,
Elder Larson