Hi Mom!

 How are you? How's the Conference Center? I'm doing good. The stuff you need to send me should be on my floor in my room close to my microwave. My call letter should be somewhere in my room in the call envelope that it came in. It might be on a pile of papers in my room on my DVDs. The CDs I think they are in the living room. I can't have you send any CDs that are burned. D should be able to help you sort out which ones are burned. And only send packages through the regular mail. If you send it UPS or FedEX I have to wait weeks to get it. Send packages to the mission home address. Can you also give people in the ward my mission address and not my apartment address? Can you send me Charles Moulding's address? He e-mailed me and I don't have his address to write him back. I'm going to be taking about $50 out of my account this week so I can have a cash reserve. This transfer is short and so I might be getting transferred in three weeks. I might be training in when those transfers happen because we are having so many more sisters come into the mission field. Thanks for your hand written letter. 

  My companion likes to sing and so all of our investigators expect us to sing before we start our lessons. It kind of made me nervous at first but now I really enjoy it. We had a training for all the new missionaries this week. It was awesome! It was so good to see the missionaries that I was with in the MTC. My mission president is amazing! He talked about how we have to approach people the right way if we want them to feel the Spirit. He talked about how we must teach the gospel as if we were sharing it with someone we know from home. I hope I can do that. We were tracting one day this week and we found a man who wants to hear our message. He said he had a lot of questions. I hope my companion and I can answer all of them. I wish I could tell you more about some of the people that we are teaching but I don't have a ton of time. The man that we committed to baptism is still meeting with us. We are trying to help him come to Church. Hopefully he will come next week. 

  President Wilkey should have sent you a picture of me with him and Sister Wilkey with my new address. I'm sorry they didn't send you a picture. Yesterday afternoon all of our appointments fell through so we decided to go see some less actives. We had gone to see one and were headed to see another one. The road to the second one's house was snowy and we decided to turn around. Our car got stuck. All of the men in the ward were gone to a stake priesthood meeting. One of the sisters from the Relief Society came to help us. We tried shoveling around the tires and under but we didn't have any luck. The car just kept getting more stuck. We got a hold of a man who is not member to come help us. By this time its getting dark. His truck got stuck a couple time but we were able to get it out finally. We had decided to just give up and wait until morning to have a tow truck come get our car. We decided to try getting it out one more time. It worked! We were so happy that we got it out. My companion still can't believe that we drove the car home last night. It was a miracle that we got it out. 

  I wish I could reply to all of the families e-mails but I don't have time this week, I'm sorry! Please let Aunt Diane know that she is in my prayers. How are you feeling Mom? I have been studying in 1 Nephi this week. And I have been studying Lehi's dream in chapter 8. I have been thinking about where I am in Lehi's dream. It is so important for us to be holding fast to the iron rod! Where are all of you in Lehi's Dream?? Will you work harder to hold fast to the iron rod? This Church is true! I know that Thomas S. Monson leads the Church today. I know that by reading the Book of  Mormon and praying about it we can come closer to Christ! I know that the Savior is aware of our needs. Tell everyone hi for me and that I love them! Have a wonderful week!! You are in my prayers!! I love you!!!

   Love,

    Sister Griffin