Staying in Little Rock

Hey guys!  Hard to believe another transfer has gone by again!  
I'm staying in Little Rock with Elder Anderson.  We are so excited 
to continue serving together.  

This week was good.  Tuesday we went up to Sherwood to visit 
our Spanish Branch mission leader and work out a mission plan 
for the Branch.  We have been helping him a lot because he is 
pretty new in this calling.  I feel the Branch is starting to improve
but there's always room for improvement!  It is our hope and our
prayer that we as missionaries can help the people here even 
more this next transfer.  

Wednesday was fun.  While Elder Anderson went to a leadership 
conference I stayed here and did a blitz with Elder Ralph. He is an 
English missionary in the area next to ours. We had a good day and 
visited with some of his investigators.  It was fun to get to know him 
and meet some new people.  

Friday we did our weekly planning and studies.  Then we watched 
the broadcast of President Monson's funeral.  It was truly amazing.  
What an amazing example of service and love.  After the broadcast 
we went out proselyting and found a marine recruiting office. We met 
some cool guys there and had an awesome gospel conversation with 
them.  While we taught them about the gospel they taught us about the 
Marines!  It actually was a really neat experience.  We also had to take 
our car in to get an oil change and rotate the tires. That ended up taking 
forever and we didn't get to proselyte much more after that.  

Saturday we were on our bikes the whole day.  We went to an apartment 
complex we hadn’t been to before and met some really cool people. So -
some success!  We are going back next week to teach a couple lessons.  

Sunday we watched the church broadcast.  I really enjoyed the messages.  
My eyes were really opened about the atonement.  I loved reading about 
your experience with the Goodwin’s going to the temple.  I am so happy 
for their family and feel blessed to have been a small part of and witness 
Tod's conversion experience.  This true gospel can bring so much peace 
and happiness and I am so grateful and blessed to be out here sharing it!  

This week Elder Smalley is coming to stay at our apartment so that will be 
fun to see him again.  Elder Anderson and I are looking forward to spending 
another transfer together and working hard.  There is still lots of work to do 
here in Little Rock!  I love you guys!  Have a great week! 

Love Elder Merrill 

Our district

The Marines

We love Guillermo!