This has been a pretty good week this week. We have been able to meet more investigators which has been good except a lot of them took the change as an opportunity to drop us. That stunk bad. But we have a few golden investigators. Yesterday we got one of them to come to church! Her name is Janet and she is super stellar. She's been working really hard to quit smoking so she can get baptized so be sure to pray for her. 

I ripped yet another pair of pants by challenging Elder Fowers my zone leader to a race. We ran in our parking lot and I biffed it and shredded my pants and my arm. My pride was hurt more than I was but it was still fun. We have been getting fed pretty good which is exciting. Elder Batt and I have been walking everywhere since he sent home his bike so it's been a blast. We get flipped off a lot though. Cool thing happened two days ago. We were walking and then someone drove by and waved then whipped around and came back to talk to us. It was a man who served in North Bend 37 years ago! It was nuts. The craziest part was that his daughter knew Elder Batt's brother in college! Since Elder Batt is going to USU in a few weeks him and her will be going to school together! Haha he won't admit it but he is pretty stoked.

Everything has been going good. Just kickin butt and taking names is all. Later! Hope y'all are doing well! 

Elder S. Jackson Martin

Oregon Eugene Mission

Successful p day on the beach
North Coos Bay Zone

Since we had transfers yesterday we did not end up having the time to email so we are emailing today. It's been super crazy. I was on the transfer Truck with the APs for 2 hours and then when we got to Eugene we had a 2 hour drive out to North Bend. Cool thing happened! One of my tightest mission friends, Elder Holman, just became the new AP! I was pretty pumped about that. I had a good last week in Merlin. Elder Egan and I were trying hard to have a good last week of the transfer. Unfortunately since Merlin has been so slow for the past 10 months we got a call Friday night saying that President was going to close down the area. So Elder Egan and I had to clean the apartment to perfection. Elder Egan got sent to Roseburg and now I'm here in North Bend on the coast right by Coos Bay. It's absolutely Beautiful. It's so cool being over on the coast.

I'm pretty bummed to leave all of my cool homies in Grants Pass. I made some awesome friends. It was the first time that I got along with all the sister missionaries which was fun. Usually I didn't talk to them much but in that zone we got to party with them all the time. Anyway it was an incredible experience over there and its a shame to have been six week shafted but I'll go back and visit for sure. 

Now I've been called as a District Leader out here with my new Companion Elder Batt. He is about to go home at the end of this transfer so President told me to, "Keep him away from being trunky at all costs!" We double transferred into here so honestly neither of us know the area or even what's going on. Luckily we share a ward with the ZL's so they have filled us in on a lot of stuff. Our district consists of us, the ZL's, and the STL's. I'm excited to be out here and can't wait to get to know the area. Already just walking to the Church we had 3 people honk at us and wave, 2 people say 'Thanks for your service." and 1 person ask how many wives we have. Haha we are loving it!!!

Elder S. Jackson Martin

Oregon Eugene Mission

Dang - second week in a row with no letter.....This is all we got today.
Dad



Stupid! I've been in Merlin for 6 weeks and now I'm getting
transferred. I'm got called to be a District Leader in North Bend

Elder S. Jackson Martin
Oregon Eugene Mission
Merlin Ward

I don't think I'll be able to shoot off a weekly email but cool
miracle! We got a call yesterday about a referral who wants their
daughter to be baptized! So we are trying to get a hold of the person
to get it all figured out! Miracle!!!!!! Pray that it goes well

Elder S. Jackson Martin
Oregon Eugene Mission
Merlin Ward