March 5th 2012

Hey mom and dad,

hows everything going? thats great to hear about home and everything thats going on, i'm sorry to hear about mr. wargo...thats pretty sad, but its true he's in a better place now. Thats cool that dad bore his testimony as well, its always good to bear your testimony and express gratitude publicly. As for me, I've had a long week. I had to go on two exchanges this week and its brutal. I get upset at myself if I'm not working hard and if I don't have good plans for the day...but then seeing others that just don't have much of anything going on, its rough. thats kinda how it was on the exchanges, both the elders I went with didn't seem to know what they were doing and basically planned to fail, because they didn't have anybody in line to see. That just wore me out a bit. Luckily the work in my area seems to be making progress, we're constantly finding new people to teach and new ways to work better with the ward, so its pretty exciting. I reallly hope they don't transfer me, I feel like there's still a lot to be done. I've had a bit of a cold the past few weeks, so hopefully that'll go away soon, mainly I just want to have more people to teach and more ideas on improvement, once that comes I'll be fine.

thanks for sending me victors letter, i love hearing for everyone. I've got about 9 letters to write so hopefully I can get on that a little bit today, i hope people aren't upset. The works been really good though, I've been trying just to forget about everything and focus more on the work, but I'm still working on that. If there's anything I can say about how i'm doing now, its that i'm doing great, My teachings gotten a lot better and so has my finding, just working with people in general has gotten better, I still hesitate in big crowds and sometimes even talking to people at church, but overall its getting better. Now the goal has just been to perfect the teaching and everything that goes in to it, like extending different kinds of commitments and incorporating commandments within each lesson. We're also just working on being even more united in everything we teach, always feeding off of each other. I really think that as we begin to utilize the gospel as whole within each teaching scenario, that our lessons will improve and we'll be able to feel the spirit more, so thats what we're trying to do now. Anyway, my times runnning low, so take care. Have a great week. Love, Elder Farnsworth