Well My new comps name is Elder Price, he's from Sacramento! Its weird talking about the places back home with him, Folsom, the malls, church buildings. He's been out for 15 months. I'm still district leader, we have 6 elders in the district now, with a Samoan, elder Sua, he's pretty funny, reminds me of Tuielu.

We had a mission tour on Tuesday, Elder C. Scout Grow was here, he was a really cool guy. As a new mission we've been doing pretty bad, Its been the Pittsburgh side though, not to sound prideful or anything... but its true. The mission organization has changed on how numbers work and how baptisms should be planned, which means a lot more work and stress for district leaders now.... instead of having 1 zone conference every 6 weeks, once a month. And the remaining weeks of the month we work on what we learned at zone conference, which means the DL's have to know everything and re-teach it each week. If there's something going wrong or not being taught that should be, its all the district leaders butts now.... weeeeeeeee. So far Elder Price is pretty quick, I'm used to being funny and talking all the time with comps, he doesn't really say much and he's kinda different with people but hopefully its just because its his first week. I was able to get the package yunz sent, oh wow I'm speaking Pennsylvanian without thought.....crap....

I'm ganna send out a small package for mom, something inside, hopefully you like it, a late B-day present. I forgot to get something for dad, but hey mom's had to go through my crap the past few weeks ahahah :P.

Other than that we are going to work a lot harder this transfer as a mission, we need to step it up and get better trust and excitement from the ward to help us out with the work. I just hope Elder Price can keep up, we need to get the ball rolling over here on the Pittsburgh side.

The weather has been really nice this week, in the 70's, all the leaves are turned color now and are starting to fall everywhere.

Elder Holmes