Letter from Mark 18 Sep 2006

Dear Family,

Things have been going well. It has been starting to cool off the past few days, some leaves are begining to change colors. it is wierd to see the change in the weather again and be able to remember last year as a missionary at this time.

Transfers are up again on thursday (sept 21) And I will probably be going, so please send everything through the office. there is a posibility that i will stay, but most likely not.

Gas has steadily gone down here. we were paying over $3 a gallon for a while, but now it is just under $2.50. It is amazing how $3 will make $2.50 look cheep, but when i left $2.50 was expensive. actually, it was about the same price when i got to wisconsin last year.

I had a cool Experiance this morning. the seminary teacher got some old time cloths and asked me to dress up as Joseph Smith and tell the story as if I were him. She had the Idea, and asked her neighbor who was the seminary teacher last year what she thought and she recomended me(we had taught them and i did the joseph smith part) so we did that and afterward there were a few people that wanted pictures, so we got a lot of pictures. It was fun. I should be sending a lot of stuff home this week, including those pictures. If i don't get transfered i probably won't send it though.

This past week i got a call from someone in that lake mills ward that i didn't know (and she didn't know me or that i had served there,) telling me that one of the youth from that ward was in the Elkhorn Hospital, and the father needed help giving a blessing. the kids name is James Delory, he was in a soccer game as golie and had someone drive on him and he grabbed the ball as it got a little a head of the other player. the kid on the other team couldn't stop and tripped over him, kicking him in the head, and after that James counln't remember a thing. he kept asking what happened adn as soon as they finished telling him he wouldn say "oh, ok, i don't know if i have asked you,but can you tell me the play." they said he just had a concussion and that he should be ok. One of their sons came home from a mission while i was their is now married, and another one of their sons is leaving on a mission soon. It was neat to get to see them.

Thank you for all that you do. I love you all.

Elder Lundberg