How is everyone doing? Aweful quiet in my inbox. Hopefully everyone is doing good and having fun! Happy Birthday to Jeff and Sadie! Hope that you guys both had a great birthday!
This last week we had changes. They combined my area with another, so I had to move all of my things to the other house. My old companion went to Ayacucho, and I am still here in San Juan, or Lima. I am now with Elder Salgado, from Chili. He is really cool and I can´t wait to work with him here. I have to learn all of this area and lead my old area right now, along with being the district leader. Elder Salgado was only in this area a week before I came, so he doesn´t know all of the people here yet very well. It is going to be a lot of work this change, but I know that God will help and bless me here.
I also got to have interchange with my old companion from the MTC, Elder Seguin from Canada, this last week. That was super awesome to get to talk with him about all that has happened in our missions. It is crazy to see the difference and how much each one of us have changed. I remember when I started my mission, I said that he was super crazy and that he drove me nuts, but now I absolutly love the guy. Crazy how we change here in the mission.
I was studying this morning and I started reading into the Christlike attribute of virtue. When Christ was touched by the women in the street, he says that virute was taken from him. The wording in this verse seems very interesting to me. When we sin, we have to repent. How is it that we recieve the forgiveness of these sins? It is that we are restored because of the suffering of Christ and then restored through the endless light that He radiates. It is throught this constant light that the scars of our old wounds can be healed. It is through this light that we can become truly converted. The light of the savour is such a great blessing that we are allowed to have. The virtue is when we contain a great abundance of this light through viruous living and also through means of repentance. 
Thanks for forwarding again Teryl. Bill & I sure enjoy reading Jaden's experiences as he tells all of the family about what's happening in his letters home each week. Observing his spiritual growth is a happy blessing in our lives. I've only missed one week (when I was ill) in writing to him since he left. Love him so much!
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