Hello all!

Family!!

Hello all! Haha, I can't believe you got Carley a car. Sososo cool. haha it looks sweet! And the house is St. George, holy cow!!! That's so nuts. Tell them I will be very upset if they sell the cabin though, but good choice with the house boat.  But thank you for keeping me updated always!

Mom: The package just arrived in the Visitors center last week, so I'm gonna pick it up today. No worries. Sorry I never responded to that question, haha.

Also to answer some other questions! Things with Elder A are going well. We may have been in several heated arguments, but all is well now. Most of the time he just recited some sort of Shakespeare-or-something play to me while I try to speak French to him, but he refuses to speak French with me so I honestly have no idea if my French is good or not! But oh well, he is a nice person and really just want to do good. Which kind of tells you how my French is going; I really don't know. I think it's getting better, and also I can understand it more! Which is really good, I can only get better from here! I study really hard though and just speak as much as I can. My knees are doing well, now it's my back! I'm getting a little out of shape honestly. I use my workout time in the morning to the best of my ability, but I don't have anyone to run with so I can't work off all the food I eat! Which is another thing; I have gained this ability to just eat gigantic amounts of food. More than I ever have before. I am always hungry. I don't know if this means I'm growing up or just out, but still, I'm growing. And also I just heard from Sister Gledhill today!! Her email is waiting to be opened, but I assume she is doing really so great. Actually I'm pretty positive of it.

What is ratchet?

Carley and Erin and Lizzy, I heard of this French girl that I think you might like to listen to, even though it's in French. Coeur de Pirate (heart of a pirate) look her up!

Oh and I thought of some things you could send! 

-american floss

-cholula

-pictures

-a new smallish french dictionary

-ties

-music! such as: Alex Boye, Mindy Gledhill, EFY cd's, Lower Lights and Nearer albums, other church songs.

-peanut butter

-other candies but not too much cause I don't want to continue gaining weight

Work is going well. We are teaching more and more, and we set a baptismal date with this lady named A! She is African, and Africans love Jesus so much. She is really cool and I really think she is going to go through with everything! Also we've been inviting Chris to come teach with us lately which has been super, super cool. He has so much knowledge of the church already and is very eager to share and testify! Despite the language barrier, he really has become a very good friend of mine and I'll miss him a lot when I have to leave Antony. We do a lot of finding, and I'm getting better at it, I think. I've started putting into practice the "Teach when you find, find when you teach" idea, where as soon as I meet someone, I just testify and try to teach kind of a mini- lesson so they can have a chance to feel the spirit, and always, always asking for a referral. It really has made a difference in our work! Also guess what? on the 11th we're going to have a conference with Elder M. Russell Ballard! So cool huh? I'm super excited to get to meet him and hear all his advice! Also I've just started reading my old replica Book of Mormon and it's been really cool. It really is just like reading a story book. 1 Nephi 13 is a super cool chapter, it talks about the pilgrims coming to America and the Revolutionary war, and all this cool stuff about American History! It is really cool to see how much the Lord really is involved in our lives and how he has given us so many blessing in the Promised Land. Also, in the next few chapters afterwards, Nephi has some trouble with his bow and his brothers trying to kill him and he gets asked to build a ship, pretty huge things, but you know where he always goes to find answers and help? The Mountain, or the Temple. Unlike the members in France who have a good 3 hours to the nearest temple, you are like 15 minutes away from 3 different ones!! Thats such a blessing! Go to the temple together.

Autumn: Thank you so much for your messages! I wish I could go to your dance recital, I miss you and love you very much. I'll write you a letter back today and guess who the painter was that you were talking about! Also if you have any math questions, you can write me a letter and I'll try to answer them.  Good luck with school and I love you!

I miss you all and love you very much! Thank you for all the things youve done for me! Have a really good week, Carley, have fun partying for the next 3 days, cause seriously, it's gonna be awesome, you all rock so much. Write me letters, and I'll talk to you next week!!

Love Elder Wood