Aug 30th 2010

Dear Family,

Thank you for the email. Well Elder Haley and I are doing well. We are
still together, but we have transfer calls this Sunday. So this sunday
we will find out if we are leaving or staying. We have had a good week
though. Zone Conference was really good. I like President Perry alot.
He is very good at uplifting you and making you feel very capable of
anything. The mission is being uplifted by him alot because we have
already doubled the number of people that are set for baptism. One
thing the church is utilizing more is mormon.org. The church has
completely redone that website. And it is being tied to facebook. It
allows people (nonmembers) to meet people that are mormon through the
internet. We are told to encourage members to go to mormon.org and
create a profile. So you should all do that and make a profile. There
are alot of interesting things on there. He also told us that the
church is doing an experiment where missionaries in New York spend
there proselyting time on Facebook and teach people through the
internet. So missionary work is moving forward as technology advances.
Also, there were alot of rules that President Millburn had that were
specific to the Virginia Richmond mission and President Perry got rid
of all of them. Which is very nice and I think it makes being a
missionary less stressful, because you are not as worried all the time
about breaking a rule. There were alot of them.

So tha'ts what is happening with president Perry. He said to tell you
hi dad. Our investigators are doing well. I hope i do not get
transferred. I can never remember which ones I have told you about,
but our top investigator is Andrew. He is doing awesome. We didn't even
get to meet with him last week but he comes to church on his own, he
was answering questions in Elders Quorum, and we had the bishop
interview just to get to know him and that went really well. We are
planning on settign a date for him to be baptized on Wednesday which
is the next time we are planning on seeing him. We also are seeing a
guy named Shawn and yesterday we stopped by and talked with him for
awhile. We showed him mormonmessages.org and also mormon.org and he is
really interested. We are going back to his house today.

Thank you very much for the pizza. We got it Wednesday night and it
was a nice surprise. It was very good, and so were the breadsticks and
lava cakes. They are very good and rich. Well we are doing good. My
testimony gets strengthened all the time. Have a wonderful week. I
dont know how emails are going to work because I think the library
might be closed on Monday. We'll see. I love you.

Love,
Elder Larson