11, 12 & 12

To quote Patrick - "I hope you are doing amazing good!" He says the weather is HOT!

One of my favorite things from the past couple letters is how nervous Elder McBride seemed about general conference. He says he has never sat and watched all four sessions. I don't' think I've ever done it either.... Focus.... The next letter he said how much he loved watching it and it was historical because he made it through all the sessions.

The people he is around are taking good care of him, he's eating ribs and sent home a picture of the missionaries in front of wonderful looking pool. He is making plans for returning in couple years so he can actually use the pools!

Patrick has been busy teaching and preparing people for baptism. He had one girl who backed out because she wanted to tryout for America's Next Top Model. Patrick was so disappointed, but has asked us to keep praying for her!

He also wants all of us to focus on our friends and neighbors with missionary work. "Have you guys ever heard of the Perry Plan? All of North America are supposed to be doing it in their wards with missionaries. L Tom Perry went over it briefely in his talk and gave a really good story that applied so good to it - listen to it if you have it recorded. It was about the sheep way up on the Provo Mountain without a way down and rescue workers were trying to get it - but the sheep would probably get scared by them - so he wondered where the sheppard was because the sheep knows him...oh I LOVED it! Us members are the sheppards to the lost sheep (nonmembers and less active members) and us missionaries (the rescue workers who sometimes scare the sheep) it is by the members help that we are going to be successful - so my assignment for ALL of you is to take these words seriously and talk to your friends about the gospel and bring them into your homes and the missionaries too so they can receive a message comfortably with someone they know and trust!"

Each letter Patch puts the week # in his letters, this week should have been 13, but he did 12 again... He's already losing track of time! Go Patch!