{J-DuB & JeSSi}

That's so unbelievable that J-Dub and Jessi are getting married today! I wish you both the best of luck...I hope everything goes well. Tell the extended family I say hello! I hope your week has been awesome because mine was...

Tell Grammy and Grandpa Turley that they have no idea how amazing those caramel things are! My zone is loving them! And tell uncle tom i loved his letter and he should be expected one from me soon...and tell will jensen that i got his letter as well and that i'll be writing him asap! So this week has definitely been pretty crazy. Everything is in Spanish now...all of our classes...the lessons we teach...basically any time we are wearing our ties haha

And our branch president asked me and elder Dangerfield to serve as zone leaders until we leave for Panama...basically we're here to welcome "nuevos" and take care of zone activities, plan sacrament meetings, ya know. It's going to be sweet because we have such a cool zone! It's kind of like starting over at the MTC though...i felt like I had no idea what was going on for the first little while-no i still feel that way.

I have to tell you that I've never thought about our James as much as I've thought about him here. It's not that I've been missing him but I just can't stop thinking about him and the work he's doing. I'm starting to realize how hard he's working I think. I'm so grateful for the knowledge that we'll see him again. The fact that he passed away makes lesson 2 in Preach My Gospel much more meaningful to me. I haven't doubted for one day that we would see each other again. I know he's been with us a lot more than we realize. When I read D&C 138...it's probably one of the greatest sections of scipture in the standard works.

Oh speaking of which...yesterday I opened up the Book of Mormon for personal study, and then I stopped to write down a question. I wrote "what can I do to better fulfill this new assignment?" or something like that, and than I turned back to my scriptures and suddenly every scripture was talking about leadership-amazing! I think it was 2 Nephi 5:18 or somethin around there.

So last Saturday we went to the TRC again and we challenged our investigator to be baptized. Even though they are just volunteers (a lot of the people there have served missions) it's still kind of crazy extending someone an invitation to be baptized. Oh and he accepted no worries.

Dad...you got an iphone. I'm proud of you. You're gonna be all mac when I get home! Then you'll be able to keep up with mom. Thanks for that part of Elder Gonzalez's talk about the Book of Mormon it's way awesome!

Oh I forgot to tell you...there's an elder in our room (Elder Huckaby) whose mom was pregnant but she just had a miscarriage yesterday. He's having a way rough time with it but he's staying stong. I absolutely love him. And he didn't know his mom was pregnant until he got out here in the mission field...he was so excited about it...it's pretty rough.

Well fam i'm running out of time here. I love you all! Send my love to all of our family members! J-Dub, Jess, I'm way happy for you two! I hope everything is incredible today! I'll be in the temple today to! How sweet is that?! I love you all so much!

Hey lib- Take care of Marsh-man after j-dub moves out. Keep him in line! Love you!

Much love,
Elder Tanner