Happy 4th, in Utah or Alaska! ;)

Hey fam! I love you guys 7 much (which is the max and then some =])!

I hope you had a wonderful 4th there in Utah; I think that's definitely one of my favorite holidays back home. It's just fun to spend the 4th of July in Grantsville, UT. This has been a fun and busy week. Let me tell you a way cool story that happened on Monday... :)

So, I was at the church with a bunch of the missionaries playing basketball. We were shooting around and I look over at the door and see some people walk in. They look kind of like Teresa and Abi McNeill. I don't think anything of it, and then I do a double-take and they look EXACTLY like them! Well, it turns out it really was them ha ha! I ran over and was like, "HEY! Wow, ha ha, what's going on?" It was so much fun. We talked for a few minutes, they brought us a bunch of delicious Pizza Hut pizza, and then they headed out. I guess they have friends/cousins in the Ocoee ward, the Claibornes, who they were up here visiting. It was awesome to see them though!

And congrats to Kenni G and Brach! That is exciting. I saw that they were coming to Orlando for their honeymoon! I almost half expected to see them at church or something ha ha. Hopefully they had an enjoyable time and got to see Disney or something fun like that!

So... word on the street is that Elder Lancaster Joel Brown I is engaged. Ha ha yeah buddy! That is so funny. Elder Larsen definitely predicted that one - his guess was 4-6 weeks after he got home. Well, it was a month and a day, which falls right into that category. Congrats Lancaster! =] He is engaged to Ali Krebs, who has faithfully waited for him these two years. How exciting. Anyway, just thought I'd give a shout-out to the Man LB.

Right now the zone is doing alright; some areas are doing great and some not so great. We need to get things rolling with all of the areas instead of just some. It's really interesting to get to see how the zone is doing and follow up with the district leaders and all. It helps me want to be a lot better!

For the 4th here, it was our P-day, which made it really nice (not a lot of people like talking to people they don't know that knock on their door on a holiday). The morning went pretty normal, we had our studies, shopped, etc., and then the Flores family took us out to lunch! They were going to take us to a bbq place called "4 Rivers," but it was closed. We ended up going to Lonestar, which was still really good! After that we went to the church and played some basketball. For dinner, our WML invited us over to their place. It was super good, we had grilled chicken and bratwurst and watermelon and salad and some good dessert too. The Js from the ward were also there. We had a good lesson with them after that about the Atonement. They are such nice people to invite us over and share the holiday with us :)

That evening we got to go on exchanges with Blake Johnson, and went and followed up with some people. We had a lesson with a really nice lady named Judy, who works at Disney. Her husband passed away and she lives in the apartments right by Magic Kingdom. It was a good lesson and we will be going back to teach her soon. After that lesson, we met Ed & Joanne Peterson at the Church and they took us to the backside of Disney to watch the fireworks! President Hall let us stay out until 10:30 to watch the fireworks. The Disney fireworks were amazing! They put on quite a show. Grantsville's is still definitely one of my favorites though too ;)

Well, we are still trying to get some solid investigators rolling. The Lord has blessed us with some wonderful families to work with - the Cs (J, the 18 yr old son, is B's friend), and the Ts (G & L are friends of the Fs'). We have shared a short lesson with them, but aren't quite actively teaching them yet. Please pray your hearts out that we will be able to continue to develop a good relationship and help them accept the gospel! Pray that the Spirit will work with them in their lives and that their hearts will be changed. Also, please pray that we will receive the needed inspiration and revelation to best help them. Thank you so much, your prayers really do have a big influence on me and the work that is going on here.

Well, transfer calls are this Saturday; it will be interesting to see if Elder Johnson will stay or go because he has been in this zone for so long. I think he is gone, but we'll see when it comes. I love you all so very much and feel your love for me each day! Thanks for being who you are. Oh, and weird thought - next 4th of July I will be spending at home with my FAMILY! Aaaah! HA ha love you all =]

Oh, btw, we had church for the first time in the Lake Reams chapel, and it was great! It's a nice building and the ward is great. There were a lot of wonderful testimonies on missionary work, and the ward is excited and ready to go! The stake has put a great fast on missionary work for the month of July. Well, talk to you next week! Lu ya!

-Elder Beckett