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

Hi Mom,
This week has been pretty good. Elder Jean Louis had to have surgery on Wednesday, so for the week, my companion Elder Jones went with him to the mission home, in Baton Rouge, to get all healed up. I was with Elder Mills which was a really good time. I have been trying to get a hold of B. to see how he is doing but he has been out of comission for some reason. We haven't heard from him for quite some time. He said he was going to visit his family in Northern Louisiana but that was over a week ago. Hopefully his family is doing alright. Well most of all this week we just contacted a lot of less actives that we haven't been able to see since we were in the truck. We have been teaching A. some more and got her baptism date set for the 18th of July. so that will be really good. Our fourth of July was pretty alright, we didn't get invited by any members so we went to a place to get hotdogs and then watched the fireworks in Algiers. the funny thing was that Evanston's fireworks are honestly a lot better. I'm going to be going on an exchange with some Elders in my district so I'll be spending a couple of days in Chalmette. they have a car so that is perfect haha. Mom tell everyone hi and I love them!
Love Jeff