Returned With Honor

Hi Family
It's been a really good week. It was kind of hard though because there have been a lot of goodbyes. I was in Chalmette on exchanges so I was able to see Dreka and Azareeyah. and say good bye to them. We then went on exchanges to Kenner and I got a call from Mary, that was a surprise, she is so funny, I'm really going to miss a lot of the people. I'm excited to be coming home too!

Love Jeff

 Crab Boil!!!

Everything has been really good. My companion is Elder Baker who is from Connecticut. We don't have a car so for the last few weeks I'm going to be on a bike. I'm in a branch so that is good. most of the people here are actually from Louisiana so thats a good change too. Elder Jones has a year and a half left on his mission. He goes home in two decembers. We had a day where we went crabbing so that was a ton of fun. We ended up catching over 200 hundred crabs and then we had a crab boil for the branch. It"s crazy how fast the time has been going these past few weeks. We got a surprise on Saturday night, we were asked to speak at church in the morning. My companion was really nervous and didn't prepare anything. In the middle of his talk the branch president stood up and just kind of interviewed him on the pulpit to take up more time (it was just me and my companion speaking). We got fed last night so that was good. It's hard to believe I only have two weeks left, it's going to go by so fast. This week I'm going to be on exchanges so that will make things fast and the last week I'll have to send all my stuff home its going to be really weird. To be honest it hasn't really hit me yet. Grandma looked like she was in a lot of pain I sure hope she is doing better. Please tell all the family hi for me. I'm getting excited to see y'all.
Love Jeff

 New Orleans Cemetery 

City of the Dead

Baptism!!!

Sorry it took so long to let y'all know what happened for transfers, it's been pretty crazy!  The baptism went great this weekend. So, in short I got transferred to the West Bank area in New Orleans! Just across the river. I got doubled into the area with Elder Baker. I'm in the same district and everything. We showed up to the apartment on Wednesday night and realized we didn't have power. So, we stayed the night at the spanish elders apartment. We got power the next evening but now it's fridge duty. Just imagine a fridge left in the Louisiana heat for a month and a half! Its pretty nasty. We are going crabbing tomorrow with the New Orleans ward and having a crab boil to celebrate Pioneer day. It should be a ton of fun!
my new address is
500 Wall Blvd Apt. 246

Gretna LA 70056
Love Jeff!

Dear Family
Wish Grandma and Grandpa a happy anniversary! speaking of Grandma and Grandpa I met a guy from Casper a few weeks ago and he said he was going to go see how they were doing. Transfers are next week, so I have at least a week and a half left in New Orleans. I'm really hoping that I get to stay here with Elder Jones for the last few weeks. I don't know if I ever told you but the Book of Mormon that you gave me was given to a 9 year old girl a few weeks ago and now this saturday she is going to be baptized. She has been waiting ever since her aunt was baptized back in May so she is really excited. We are all really excited too. We had exchanges this week and while I was gone Elder Jones and Elder Fifita found a new family in our area. We have been teaching them some more this week and they are really excited about the lessons. They weren't able to make it to church this week because of work but hopefully they will be able to start coming every week soon. Other than that things are going good and its only getting hotter here. This last month and a half is going to be fun! :) thanks for everything!
Love Jeff