Thanks for the letters and the news from home. I am glad that you are both feeling better Dad and Mom. That is cool to hear about Hammond's son in law, and Mattie going to Chicago.
So one of the exciting things that will be happening for us on September 10th--President Ahlander announced that Elder Neil L Anderson and Tad R Callister will  e coming to speak to us!  This will be the first time that both Vegas missions will b e together in one place, about 500 missionaries.  We are very excited about it. We are thinking that it has to do with technology of some sort, like ipads, or facebook, but we're not sure. That will be a great day!  This week has been good, trying to find more people as usual. But we got to stand in the circle while our investigator received the Priesthood yesterday, It was a great experience for him and his family, and for us as well. They both  are going to the Temple on Wednesday to do baptisms for the dead with the ward. That will be a very special day for them as well. They always mention how excited they are to go through the temple in a year, so I will definitely be making a trip back down for that!  It's important for every new convert to go do baptisms for the dead soon after they are baptized, that gives them a lot better chance of staying active, so I'm glad they can do that.
Well I appreciate the video of Charlie and can't believe he's almost walking now!  Thanks for everything you do for me. Love Elder Smith