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Hey everyone,

    Ill start out by answering questions. So for the boots, its better for them to be black but its fine if theyre brown. Elder Butler has brown boots. So if you want to you can send me my brown boots, if dad wants me to have black boots dont send me any and Ill buy some up here. Also, Soldatna is about a 2 hour drive away from Homer. And I dont mind hearing the details and all the stuff about the upcoming wedding. 

   This week was super good. On Tuesday we went up to Soldatna for specialized training and leadership training. I was only able to be in the specialized training meeting so me and the only other elder not invited into leadership training went on a short exchange for a few hours. It was super good though, I was on a short exchange with Elder Duval, hes a funny kid and a way good missionary, and then specialized training went from 1 to 5. It was really informative and gave more ideas on finding, how to do things more effectively and they talked alot about waking up on time. I guess alot of missionaries struggle with waking up on time, especially during the winter when its dark all day except a couple hours or so. So they gave alot of ideas to help missionaries to wake up on time. Also, its starting to get into winter, recently its started getting dark at around 6:30 or 7 and the sun comes up around 9:30ish or 10 and we lose about 5 or 10 minutes of sunlight everyday. But it was just a really good meeting overall that gave alot of insight, and im sure leadership training was pretty good as well. I got to see Alyssa there, that was pretty cool, it was good to see her again. Oh, and its getting pretty chilly, in the morning when we wake up its in the 20s.  Oh and it was elder Butlers birthday on Saturday, one of the members that he baptized set up a surprise birthday party for him, it was pretty cool. Hes a farmer so they had John Deere stuff all over and had a John Deere birthday cake for him. It was pretty cool.On Saturday our investigator Michele was baptized, that was pretty sweet. Ill attach some pictures from it, but it went really well and there were quite a few members that attended. So that definitely made the week good. Also, weve had a few more lessons with our investigator Julian Massey. He used to deliver yachts in the carribean for a living, and was in the coast guard in Florida, and was a ski instructor at deer valley and park city, and a bunch of stuff like that. But weve been doing alot of preparing him for baptism, those lessons are always pretty good. We went over the baptismal interview questions with him and helped clarify any questions or concerns he had about them, and on Friday Elder Yang, one of our zone leaders is coming down to do his interview. So were excited for his baptism on the 5th of November, thats gonna be sweet, hes super cool. But thats pretty much been our week. Oh and Im getting another haircut today, thats gonna be good, my hairs getting longer.

    It sounds like everythings going good at home, alot of staying busy. Thats fun that uncle Mark and Mari and her friends came over, that sounds like it was alot of fun, did everyone carve pumpkins in the family? And dads friend came over to look at pictures, thats sweet, did he end up buying any for his new house? Thats awesome that the NuSkin convention is this week, what bands gonna be doing a concert at the end of the week? do you know? Thats good that Aunt Marys arms getting better, and to bad that Aunt Deannas not doing so good. Sounds like the alpine slide was fun, that stuffs always fun. It sounds like everythings going good at home. Everythings going good here in Homer, the works progressing slowly but surely. Hopefully well be able to find more investigators so well actually have some solid investigators after Julians baptism. Anyways, I gotta go, Heres some pictures. Theres a halloween costume for a familys dog, the baptism, one of the stingrays we caught and one of the sharks we caught. Im using pictures from elder Butlers camera because the lady took blurry pictures with my camera, she didnt focus it and I didnt notice until after the baptism was all done.  There you go! Love you guys!

Love Elder Ashton Roney

Im gonna go get my haircut in a few minutes and Ill be back to check my email, so let me know quick if dad wants me to have black boots.