Hey everyone!
   This week was good  I have a question for Braedon that I forgot to ask on skype, was your mission presidents name president Donaldson? President Donaldson from the missionary department did some training and he was talking about how he served in San Diego as mission president, and I think he was talking about the Preach my Gospel DVDs that they were making while Braedon was there.
 
The work started picking up this week here, we met with Kodie this week again just before basketball. We taught him the gospel of Jesus Christ, hes still awesome, he had some good questions and definitely is searching the truth. He accidentally got into some anti mormon stuff on the internet, so that brought up most of his questions, but we cleared those right up so it was good haha. And were gonna be teaching him on Wednesday and Thursday this week, should be good. We also got in with a lady that weve been trying to see for a while, shes usually not home, and that went good. Kind of a bummer though, she takes care of her parents and the state is trying to take her parents away from her. She was out of town and she hires some people to come stay and watch her parents while she was up in anchorage, and her dad had some seizures, I guess they happen alot, and the person called 911 because she didnt know what to do, so now the state is saying shes unfit to take care of them and is trying to get them out of there. So that was kind of a crazy visit, but it was good to finally get in. Also today we had a lesson with a lady we tracted into last week, thats why I didnt email earlier today. It was good, she belongs to the Seventh Day Adventist church and was curious what we believed in. So we started teaching her about the Restoration and I shared Moses 1:35 and that brought up a whole other discussion about the book of mormon. Haha so we only got through one point in the first lesson during the whole 30-40 minutes we were there, oops haha. Shes got a really firm belief that the bible is the only true word of God, but the lesson was good because it helped her understand why we use the book of mormon and that its not a replacement of the bible, and she wants us to come by again. So that was good, it ended up being a good lesson. And we saw Willard, that native guy again hes still doing good, hes waiting for the test results about his lung cancer, he didnt have much time or I was gonna see if he would share some of his peoples history that his grandma taught him but we didnt have much time with him. So hopefully next time Ill find out more about his peoples history and how it goes with the book of mormon like he was telling us.Oh and last night we saw this less active guy, he lives on a tiny sailboat on the docks. We just stood on the docks and talked to him while he was sitting in the boat. Kind of a weird visit haha, he was drinking when we got there and im pretty sure that he was on some drugs too. Like 5 minutes into the conversation he started talking about how the rebels over seas steal the supplies that the church sends to help with humanitarian aid stuff, and how the ones with the guns (and does shooting actions and sound effects while hes telling us the story of how the rebels do it) get the supplies and win. Then started mumbling stuff and got gradually quieter at the end of each sentence. Then he pulled out a lighter and started snapping his fingers and making a funny face for a minute then played with his beard, it was weird. Then when we were walking away he had us stop and said hey wait a minute I wanna show you something, so we stopped while he got something out of his little boat. Turns out he wanted to play his trumpet for us, and he started playing taps and kept messing up and told us how it wasnt his favorite mouth peice. Then when he was done we left and he kept playing while we were walking to the car. Very strange way to end the night haha.
 
It was good to see you guys yesterday on skype! Everyone looks a little different, but good. You guys are lucky its so warm there, I wish it was warmer here.   Elder Weber loves it cold and cloudy, hes crazy.  That was an awesome song on the ukulele Brolin, good job, keep it up! And Averys so flippin tall, oh my heck, howd you get so tall anyway! Braedons lucky that he gets to fly for free! Congrats to Virginia for getting invited back to teach another year! And Im glad Britts doing good still, hope youre liking your job! And hopefully you win in that upcoming tournament Dad! Thatd be sweet, And Happy Mothers Day Mom!  Hope it was just wonderful for you. Oh and I'd use one of the ukuleles if you sent one up. And I got those birthday boxes and card today! Thank you guys so much! I just love getting mail! It makes me so happy to see mail in my little po box. So that was pretty much my week, it was pretty good and pretty interesting haha. Well I gotta go, I hope your week will be as good as last week! Love you guys!

  Love Elder Ashton Roney