Happy Valentine's Day

Today Josh was able to call us since it is Valentine's Day. He has been assigned to Goldsboro, NC. His companion is from Washington State. (I am not sure how to spell his last name so I will wait until I get an email.) He stated that his companion was born in Samoa and lived there for 9 years and then moved to Washington.

Between training and missionary study, he has been doing service and some tracting. On Thursday his companion and him met with other local church congregations and went and built ramps for people in need. Josh helped build a ramp for a school girl who is in a wheel chair. Today they stopped by the local senior home and were asked to come back tonight to help them with their Senior Valentine's Party.

Josh said that basketball is really big in that area, bigger than he expected. He said that the missionaries will go to parks and play basketball with the locals and talk to them that way. I think he is super excited about that.

Josh also said that he enjoyed the emails that he has received. He apologizes for not being able to respond to each of them. He also asked that if anyone has missionary journal entries that they would like to share with him, he would love to read them. He asked Ethan to send him one, once a week. So if you have any to share he would appreciate it.

Here is a picture of him with his Mission President, his wife, and all the other new missionaries. Also I have posted a link to a video of the new missionaries arriving in North Carolina last Monday.



Video of new missionaries arriving in North Carolina