This week went amazing. I will copy and paste from my email with President Welch so you can read more about it in detail. I love the new area. I was so excited to come here and it has been amazing.  My new companion is Elder Westover. He is from Weiser, Idaho. He is a farm boy who is very hard working. Cool fact, he graduated a year early from high school, he came out here at 18. He was on the wrestling team, took Jui-Jitzu classes and loved to shoot guns and do outdoor things. He also loves to work out so morning workouts get pretty wet. We pretty much take a pre-shower before our shower.  Being a trainer is great. I love it! We do have a car every other week. We switch with Angola. Our address is  1000 Old Brick Rd. Apt. #214, Auburn, IN  46706. I love the place. We are in an upstairs apartment. It needed a bit of cleaning. We are purging the place and it is feeling/looking much much better.
I loved this week, I was able to see time and time again the Lords hand in his work. I have been trying my best to follow every prompting, to always pray when I feel we need guidance or strength, when I am thankful etc... and the spirit has been filling our hearts and this area. We have been receiving so many blessings this week, though we were doubled in that did not stop us because we both know, that if we turn to the Lord and act when prompted, he will guide us where we need to be. We have been blessed with 4 wonderful new investigators and 11 referrals, a few of which were from members and are now some of those new investigators. We have been speaking to everybody and the first day my wonderful companion was willing to be the one to strike up a couple of conversations whether on the street or door approaches etc... I am so proud of him, he is dedicated, motivated, and powerful. Expect great things from Elder Westover, I am confident he will surprise you many times. I could not have been blessed with a greater companion at this time and I feel a great sense of trust from you and the Lord at this time, I am grateful for that. I also know the Lord hears and answers every prayer, there were a few weaker points I wanted to strengthen and he has exactly those things needed to help me grow.
2 awesome miracles. 
1) We received a call about 9:30 from a guy named John who kind of frantic and wanted to meet up as he had just been kicked out of his apartment, I think that is what he said. We set a time for 2:00pm to go see him, 12:50 came around and he called again urging us to come sooner but with no good reason from what he told us. Our 1:00pm apt was a no show, so we went to meet him at the Library and called him on the way, he was excited and said he would be there in 10 minutes. We get there, and call him. No answer, we shoot him a text. No answer... We walk around, in the library and then come out, he is still not there and its been around 20 minutes, we tried calling again with no answer. We felt prompted to walk around the building, as we did we saw a house across the street and I knew we needed to knock on that door. So we did, a 13 year old (Breanna) opens the door and states "hold on, my mom usually meets with you guys". After 5 minutes her mom comes down and speaks with us, not 10 minutes into our conversation she has told us "Im not joining the mormon church" "my uncle is a mormon" "you guys tried by for a year before i let you in last time" well she said she was not interested. With a few inspired questions she opened up about her past few weeks which have been rough, I felt to share how we came to knock on her door and she immediately began to tear up and express how she had been praying for Gods help and knows God sent us to her. Minutes later she said to us "Okay, you guys can come back, I am going to give it a shot because I know God sent you, I also want my children to join us". Then she began to grab food and water for us to eat as we had not had lunch and invited us over Sunday for lunch. (had to reschedule). This experience was a miracle, we have tried calling john multiple times with no answer and I know "John" was one of the Lord servants urging us to get to Garrett so we could speak to one of his so loved daughters.
2) Last night we were driving around with 40 or so minutes left to find something to do. We drove around for a moment and pulled over to get out and speak to a couple people with all rejections, as we headed towards the apartment area we felt prompted to park and get out and start speaking to whomever we could find, so we did. We desired that the Lord would give us the opportunity to share the gospel with atleast 1 more person, after one attempt and rejection Elder Westover says "lets go speak to her!" We walk up to her and ask, can we speak with you for a minute and share a quick scripture. "Sure" she says and sits down on the steps with us, and we begin to feel the spirit enter her heart as we shared about Jesus Christ and how she can come to know of him and the truth of all things by the power and influence of the Holy Ghost which we taught about, she was smiling brightly as she was enlightened to a new understanding and recognition more fully of Gods love for her. I know the Lord will provide us with his Children if we are willing to follow the spirit, I am grateful for that, I love him.
I hope you have an amazing week, I love you!

Things are going great here in Hamilton. Elder Glad and I are both being transferred tomorrow and I am training! :D I am going up to Kendallville, Indiana which is right below Angola. I am sooo excited! I love that place!!! :D It is going to be the best!
The other day I was studying John 17, the Lord's intercessory prayer, and I came upon a verse and a quote. John 17:16. "They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." The quote is by David O. McKay and is one of my new favorite quotes. "This question of being in the world but not of it is a question of increasing concern. The world is ever shrinking in size and we come ever closer to the influence and attitudes of others and there are ever more compelling pressures to be as other are, to do as others do, with questions of compromise and of preserving principles. How far to go, how different to be, how to live comfortably among men? One of life's most important problems is learning to get along with the people with whom we live in the world without compromising our principles. One of the plausible ways of getting along with people is to make concessions pertaining to principles or to go the way of the world. "Abandoning principles is no solution to the problem of getting along with people. Indeed, it is false and foolish to suppose that compromising principles will win the respect or acceptance of anyone. Compromising principles isn't getting along with people; it is simply surrender; it is simply self-betrayal. And he who betrays himself is never solidly accepted or respected anywhere by anyone." (Conference Report, April 1959)
I know that what is said in this quote is true. I look back on my life and wish many times that I did not lower my standards or compromise who I was, even on the mission! So I just want to invite you all to remember who you are. To remember that you are sons and daughters of a loving Heavenly Father and that you have the potential to become like him. In order to become like him though, we have to act like him. I love you all and hope you have a great week!

This week we have interviews with President and Sister Welch. Those 2 are so amazing. I love them! 

Also this week Elder Glad and I and our group twig leader, Brother Martin, held a funeral service at the church for an investigators friends family. It was sad. It was my first funeral I have been too and knowing that they don't know about the plan of salvation was the tough part. We both said a prayer in the program and I read the obituary and dedicated the grave. It was an interesting experience to say the least.

Conference was amazing!!! I loved it so much, but I did get to hear Elder Holland speak so I didn't feel ripped off, though I wouldn't mind hearing him speak more haha! I would need to relisten to and review my notes to know which would be a solid favorite. I really enjoyed Pres. Uchtdorfs first talk though. I loved his quote, "We are of the royal house of Elohim the most high God." It is interesting if you look in the Hebrew or Greek (can't remember which) Elohim actually means Gods. So it may mean Father and Mother when we say Elohim. If you read in Genesis it says and they shall be one flesh, speaking of Adam and Eve when married. So I learned about that and it's not official doctrine but I personally feel it is right. And I learned that a couple days prior to conference which made that statement to me so much more powerful! I really enjoyed also the 2nd or 3rd speaker, it was the lady that spoke on prayer, wow that was a beautiful talk, so powerful!

This week has been a joy, about half way through the week Elder Glad and I realized we needed to be more diligent in listening to the spirit for finding and speaking to our brothers and sisters. So we have been doing our best to do so and we are starting to have more success now in finding. Though it was towards the later part of the week so we only found 2 new investigators but will find many more this week.
This week I have been working hard towards growing in my temperance/self mastery. I quote I heard this past week was something along the lines of "self mastery is necessary to invoke the power of the priesthood". I believe that full heartedly to be true. If i get frustrated or angry and cannot learn to control those emotions and reactions I will have no power and will end up listening and acting based off satans views. I do not want that. I have been working towards learning to control thoughts and motivations and pushing through when i am tired or unmotivated. For example in the mornings I do as you suggested and when i get up and as we run i start to think of the future, of visions, goals, and dreams i have and how i need to learn to push through and keep going in diligence to get there, i know to well that without being uncomfortable i am likely not growing. As i have been doing this there has been much change in me. I am also doing the same with diet, as i have realized God has blessed me with a beautiful tabernacle and i am the steward over and need to take great care of it. Especially if i want to access the full blessings the holy ghost can offer. If i am not taking care of my body I will have limited access to this gift and blessing from Father.
Henry is doing alright but not as hot as he was before. He has been slowing down quite a bit on his personal prayer and scripture study and that is where his problem lies. Our last lesson we invited him to pray and think about where he wants to see himself in 1 year and in 5 years and to write down his goals/vision for himself. Next time we will help him make plans to get there. (reading,praying, listening to spirit). We also were blessed to be able to get Pat Spurgeon to go to womens conference with Sister Reed, we heard she had a wonderful time. That she showed up in a bad mood after fighting with family but was about in tears by the end of it, she felt the spirit.
This was part of a talk I loved.
After Jesus had been teaching the Nephites as a resurrected person, giving them as much truth as in his wisdom he felt they could absorb at one time, he counseled them to go to their homes, and to ponder in their hearts the things he had said, and to pray to the Father in his name to find out if they were true, and then to come again on the morrow and he would teach them more.

Now that gives us the pattern by which we should operate in the Church. We come together in congregations, seeking the guidance of the Holy Spirit, studying the revelations, reading the scriptures, and hearing expressions of doctrine and counsel given by those who are appointed. These teachings ought to be delivered by the power of the Holy Spirit. They ought to be received by the same power. And if they are, then the speaker and the hearer will be mutually edified, and we will have true and proper worship.

Then when the meeting is over, the “amen” should not end it. We should go to our homes and to our families and to our circles, and we should search out the revelations and find out what the Lord has said on the subjects involved. We should seek to get in tune with the Holy Spirit and to gain a witness, not solely of the truth and divinity of the work in which we are engaged but also of the doctrines that are taught by those who preach to us. We come into these congregations, and sometimes a speaker brings a jug of living water that has in it many gallons. And when he pours it out on the congregation, all the members have brought is a single cup and so that’s all they take away. Or maybe they have their hands over the cups, and they don’t get anything to speak of.

On other occasions we have meetings where the speaker comes and all he brings is a little cup of eternal truth, and the members of the congregation come with a large jug, and all they get in their jugs is the little dribble that came from a man who should have known better and who should have prepared himself and talked from the revelations and spoken by the power of the Holy Spirit. We are obligated in the Church to speak by the power of the Spirit. We are commanded to treasure up the words of light and truth and then give forth the portion that is appropriate and needful on every occasion.

I want to say I love the Lord, he works in such mysterious ways you never know what he has on his agenda and if you follow the spirit you find out, and it is wonderful! We have been working with Pat Spurgeon, the lady whom your wife and grandson kimbal came to see and we felt we should invite her mother to take the lessons with Pat. Well, we followed that prompting and while in the lesson she was not to keen on the idea. So we spent some time asking inspired questions and made some observations and she opened up a lot! After asking to "make an observation" she opened up about her history with her deceased abusive husband. Which then gave us an opportunity to bear testimony on the Atonement. As I had been looking around the room trying to observe and read things better (goal I have been working towards) I noticed some Native American decorations and that she looked a bit native. I then asked her if she was native american and she opened right up! She then spoke of 2 native americans that live down the street and referred us to go see them. Well we did, and the lady opens the door and says "Well where have you guys been?" and told us to come in. Turns out she is a member who feels left out and forgotten because nobody has visited her. Only 1 lady knows where she lives (not on roster) and her phone number had changed. So because we chose to listen to the spirit we found out Gods agenda and we are now starting to re-fellowship and teach these 2 wonderful people! :D

I am grateful to be serving as a missionary and to be able to serve as a District Leader, to be able to watch carefully my brothers and sisters and see their growth is a joyful work. I love being able to serve in any way they invite me to and try my best to grow my Charity for each of them daily and to make sure they know that I love, trust, and care about each of them. Thank you for giving me this opportunity. 
Also as for Henry he is doing okay. He did not make it for his baptismal date and it really is working on him and his level of hope went down a lot. He is bipolar and Schizophrenic and is on one of his lows as he did not make his date but is still desirous to learn and grow. We are going to work towards building his faith and desire to be baptised and he will go for it again and make it this time.
I love you and hope you have a wonderful week! :D 

We also had a wonderful sacrament meeting this past Sabbath, we had 3 wonderful speakers. One of whom really shocked me, he is so mature and spiritually strong and powerful and knowledgeable in the scriptures already. He is only 19 and is preparing to serve a mission (mission delayed a year) and leaves to Poland probably in November.  He has 2 callings already. I believe he is a teacher in young mens, something in elders qourum, but also got his third calling yesterday as stake young mens secretary. Holy Cow! He will go very far in the church and do much great work if he keeps it up. 

This week is going real well! There was transfers of course. Sister Tawzer left and we got Sister Lee. Sister Tawzer has been one of my favorite missionaries. That was my 2nd time being her district leader but Sister Lee seems really great and I am excited to have her here.  We lost Elder Nielson and Elder Quinn got sent here and I haven't had much communication with him yet, but have heard great things. Will get to know him more today.  Then for our zone leaders we lost Elder Blackburn and got Elder Tolbert who came out with me. He is a great missionary from what I can tell, but has a bit of maturing to do as well, but that is okay. He has a strong testimony and is a hard worker.

    (snippet from Presidentsemail)

Henry Sizemore has had his baptismal interview to be baptized on September 24 so we are excited! This past week he has had a total change of heart! We found out his eyesight isn't the best for reading, so we got him the cd's and he has been whizzing through them. We got them to him on Monday and he is already ending Mosiah, and he is retaining a good bit as well and is feeling the power and spirit that comes as he reads the scriptures. A cool experience and miracle though, was we started a fast with him. He started at 3:00pm on Saturday and we went over around 8 and he told us there was a point where he was really struggling and feeling withdrawal symptoms. Well he humbled himself and started praying to Father and was comforted and the suffering was eased immediately. He started to feel the atonement work in him. He was glowing and the spirit had filled his heart. He had the baptismal interview the next day. He is struggling to overcome smoking though, but has no desire as all to do it, but is fearful of the suffering from withdrawals. For the fast he had the feeling he was supposed to not sleep during the 24 hours so he stayed up all night praying and listening to some scriptures, came to church in the morning and had his interview. I love his willingness to be so diligent in trying to follow his fast, however it did tire him out and he did smoke a couple times. But is giving it a fresh go this morning and is excited and hopeful.

    We also had the privilege of Sister Welch and her grandson coming out teaching with us and it was amazing! She is so kind and loving, yet so bold and powerful in her knowledge and testimony. I could easily see her in some future time in a general presidency for young women's.

   It has just been a real good week and I am excited for the one to come.