hello everyone,

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 well another week has gone by here in gaylord, Michigan. glad that you got the pics i send last week in the email. elder coon tryed to send an email with pics as well to his family but they didnt get it so i am glad that you did even though it didnt come tell way late in the day. what did you think of the one with elder coon in the middle of the back seat of the car. we had to laugh when they said that i was sitting in the back seat and another big person was as well and then elder coon in the middle. so i had to take a pic of it. that was a fun and also a long day as well. i got some news i am not going to be going down to lansing this week for the traning but i am going to be in Kalkaska for the day with the missionaries their and elder coon is still going down to lansing and he is going to be going with some other missionaries from up here in the north part of Michigan. and thank you for the letter for the Driver's License thing mom i will sign that and then send it to them for they can get it going. cause i got a notice in the mail from the office saying that i need to work on it as well and i told myself that i was already on top of it and same with you guys as well. and here is a funny thing i am getting a Michigan acsent i am speaking like a Michigantor (people here call them selfs that cause they talk with a little acsent and putting the letter "s" on the end of words. so i am starting to do that as well. lol.. your wlecome for the fathers day card. the logs are the size of uncle mer's size o boy that is a huge logs. i am surpised that you guys was on up their in the vally tell sunday morning cutting word jk lol. i am sure that you guys would of quit for the night if it was getting to late. even though the sun doesnt go down tell after 10pm here and that seems crazy we go to bed when it is still light outside and we wake up when it is light outside. it is crazy.. i was reading in Alma this morning as well and i read that same chapter during my studies this morning. so thats funny mom. 2nd place for golf huh dad that is pretty good for you right now. you must be doing good now. you must have when out and hit a bucket of balls to get your swing back on order lol. thats a lot of pins to give away for bowling in one game and you still won wow. you guys are doing good if you can come back and win after giving up that many pins before the game even starts. you left a 4 pin dad wow i dont see that happening that often but i guess that it can happen. cause i can see leaving a 7, 9, and a 10 pin standing but a 4 umm i dont know. you did get robbed dad lol. well the reason why you see 80 dollors to my accout at a bike shop is because i had to get it fixed after i fell down going around a corner. but dont worry i am going to be getting money back for it from the mission office. i send in the recitet to them on saturday and so it should get their today if not tommorow and so i am going to get money on my missionary card for it.

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the members here in gaylord is doing awsome. sister brown is really good she is making sure that we have a dinner amlost every night even a lunch and a dinner sometimes. their are some big events coming up here in gaylord the town and also down in grayling that we are going to be in and walking around and talking to a lot of people. the one in Gaylord is going to be during the 3rd week of july and the one down in Grayling is on the 4th week and we are going to be down their in Grayling for a couple of days so we are going to see from President Hess if we can stay the night at a members home instend of going back and forth each day. cause we only have so many miles that we can use each month and that is going to save us on them. well this past week here in Gaylord we had another great week. we had 22 lessons again, and only 4 of them was with a member but we are going to get them up with getting more Presthood to come out with us to different apointments with different Investigators. on tuesday we was on trade offs with the alpena elders and i was in gaylord again for it and elder coon went over to Alpena. and that morning when me and the other elder that was with me was going and getting the bikes and about to put them on the Tischlers car i was going around the corner and the ground was a little wet from the rain that we got during the night. and well the back tire came out from under neath me and to the side and down i went and well the tire and the rim got bet and had to take it in to get it fixed. so thats way their is 80 bucks on my accout and i am going to get paid back for it from the mission office. and on wednesday we was down in Grayling for the day and we had a good day down their contacted a few people and also had 3 lessons one with a recert Convert and with a less active and then the other lesson was with an investigator that day. on thursday we got a call from sister brown and she told us that she was going to take us out to lunch at subway and she did and we was talking about different things coming up for different actives in the different towns that we go to. and on friday thats when we had to take the bike down to grayling to get it fixed for we could ride it and use the car less. and for we can loss some weight as well cause thats a goal that me and elder coon are going to be doing. is running at least once a week and also riding bikes at least once or twice a week. and on saturday and sunday all of are apointment fell thought except for are lunch apointment on saturday and are last apointment for the day as well.we had 5 lessons for a goal that day to teach and well we hit that goal we got let in3 different times while we was finding(door knocking). and on sunday we also had 5 lessons for a goal to hit to teach and again all of the apointments fell thought but we hit 4 lessons for the day so the lord is working with us maybe we didnt need to teach the people that we had to teach. maybe we had to go and do some finding and the lord is working with us. us, the Kalkaska elders and also the Aplena elders have been praying to find new people to teach and will we called the Kalkaska elders last night to see how their day was going and they told us the the members their is their branch gave them 5 referrals. 5 new people to teach the gospel to. and we are working on that to get referrals from the members here in the Gaylord area. and also yesturday we had planned to stop by a inactives place and give them some cookies and they was home and it is a part member family. and we sharded a messgae with them and their kids and also got to known them a little bit more as well. so it was a great week here in Gayord. we also had Branch Conference yesturday so we had a good meeting at church as well. but thats all for now. love ya guys and hope to hear from everyone soon.

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love elder webster