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Life is not a dress rehearsal. Keep your eyes on the prize - Exaltation & Eternal Life!" ~Unknown

Dear Family & Friends,
I hope that you are all having a great week and a good happy Monday! haha, I here you're getting more winter storms up there... I told Shaun to send me some, so I will definately be expecting a package with some snow... think it will last the trip over? I won't complain though, I did get to see snow just the other weekend! Well, I will try to send some showers of the scorching sun your way ;) haha, that would be funny if you had snow in June!
Wow May seems to just be flying on by! On Monday night we went to the Jackman family's house and read to them a scripture story that came from Alma...53 I think. It was a very spiritual night. The story was basically about how Satan is striving so hard to get us to "come down" from following Heavenly Father & if we come down just a little way off from following the gospel, the commandments and our covenants then that is when we fall - for it is a slippery slope down. At the end I bore my testimony of how important it is to follow the commandments and the blessings that come when we do. I told them the story of my dear niece Maggie who from following the rules of bycicling and the instructions of her mom she wore her helmet. I told them that a car had hit her and that she could have died if she had not been wearing a helmet. Good job Maggie for following Heavenly Father, I think it was President Kimble that said, "no righteous man or woman ever goes before his or her time." I know my Heavenly Father loves me and is keeping my family safe while I am out here on a mission.
As for the investigators... well they are pretty scarse in this area! Are closest investigators that are progressing are Nick Tallet & Brooke Reynolds. They are a family that was actually referred to us by one of our members. They are soo close & I know that they know the gospel is true.. the only problem is, is that where they have mormon friends they also have the complete opposite - anti mormon friends - and it's the ones that have been members and than have gone away from the church. We have gotten all the many weird crazy questions but we finally are at another good point with them. Pray for them - they are so close!
I love you all so much! Thanks for the letters and support! Remember to keep following God no matter what! There will be hard times ahead - Remember the council that our Prophet Thomas S. Monson gave us, "look to the lighthouse of the Lord" and that will be how we can safely arive home!-- Love, ELDER PATRICK McBRIDE