(Mom) When we have changes, the assistants announce them all. It was a change, announced as everyone else’s. When they called me, the assistants beckoned me up and sat me down on the bench next to them and President in the chapel. They handed me the paper with all the changes on it and said "You do this zone". I got up a little nervous and looked out into all the missionaries and made a face that made everyone laugh. After the conference, President said "Welcome aboard, we are really excited to work with you". Landon, who is Presidents son, is leaving this week for his mission. He has spent a lot of time with him this week. We haven’t seen him really at all. We had one meeting on Monday morning and received some instructions for the mission that we had to do. The majority of our days are spent in service to the missionaries. …we are still normal missionaries…have some investigators and quite a few recent converts. Mission work is great here in this ward. President Corbridge and Amado from the Seventy are in this ward and lots of other great people. The members give us references and we show up at their house, teach their friends the Gospel and they get baptized. We are teaching two elderly ladies, about 70 that want to be baptized. They are in a bordering ward, but their friend is in ours, so we have been teaching them. We are going to get them settled in with their ward though this week. We defiantly haven’t taught as much, but when we teach, I love it. It feels like we are on the district videos when we teach. I love it. I don’t know if it is natural to feel bad for not teaching so much and tracting so much. Josh told me that it would come. I need to be more in tune with the Spirit. It’s interesting that I have been feeling further away from the Spirit, from the Lord than usual. We have been so busy, I really haven’t gotten a good study in for a while. We get home super late and are pretty stinkin’ tired. I’m just kind of rambling. I love trials like this, because it stretches me. I love thinking about personal growth. It has become a new personal favorite topic. Heavenly Father really wants me to become like He is, like the Savior is. When I feel myself going that way, it feels me with excitement. I love the Gospel and how it changes the very nature of a person. I love love love love love being a missionary. It is the greatest thing on earth.I don’t know if it has happened to you yet, but I think it has happened to me. We’ve taken quite a few people to the airport and we have received their "arrived home OK letters" and I am not looking forward at all to being released as a full time missionary. I love serving the Lord. I can’t wait for you to be missionaries and for Jayce. Wow. …I thought a lot about our family yesterday as I had the opportunity to experience one of the more special moments of my mission with one of the missionaries. This missionary had a close family member pass away while in the MTC. Yesterday, he invited us to watch with him the funeral procession that his family had recorded. I was surprised that he invited us to watch with him. It was really hard for me to watch his face as he watched the procession. I cried lots and felt much for him. …he testified about the truthfulness of eternal families. I was amazed at this boy… I am praying that you are all well. I love you so much, Love, Elder Tilley
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