Easter

soo...hopefully nobody's disappointed in me for having this on my mind, but i saw a commercial when we were getting our tires checked. it was a commercial for The Office and Will Ferral is coming in as the new boss. man that got me good. i had to re-focus myself real quick. kind of like i do right now i guess. but anyways, i just wanted to say that i heard about the worldly excitement and got a little excited. enjoy!

back to the mission. so things here in roseville are going great. Elder Ploeger is my new companion this transfer. he and i are both new here so we're guessing we'll be here together for a while. that would be cool i think, i haven't had a companion for more than one transfer yet. including the mtc, elder ploeger is my fith companion now. and he's a cool guy, a good missionary. pretty funny. i'm excited to see what happens here in roseville.

thanks a lot for the package :) i've been taking years off of my life and pounds on gut with all of these Easter sweets. totally worth it. ha but i'm just kidding about the pounds, i'm still doing a pretty decent job of keeping the flab from creeping in. knock on wood. but i definitely could lay off the sweets. but at the same time, don't feel like you need to stop sending it all. really though, thanks for the package! the pictures you sent were perfect, thanks a lot for doing that. it was a breath of fresh air to finally have some pictures of you guys. the pummells, the hurds, and the rexes sent packages too, which was really nice. if any of them happen to be reading this, thanks a lot! you guys are awesome and i really appreciate your guys' thoughtfulness :)

so here in roseville, some exciting things have been happening. we are working with a kid named Escalon. He's 16 and he's pretty sweet. he had been meeting with the missionaries a few months back but things sort of lost momentum. but we've picked him back up. we needed to get him to church yesterday, sort of a challenge since his family hasn't showed any interest (yet) and he doesn't drive. but a lady in the ward just got a car and she said that she'd be willing to drive anyone whenever we need some help. so we took her up on that offer and Escalon got to church. they live pretty close to each other too which is nice. so Escalon had a good time at church and a lot of the members remembered him. he's on date for the 21st of May. we even started teaching his friend who lives a few houses down. he's awesome too. really solid so far, and we're going to bring up the same date for his baptism too. stay tuned for that.

more exciting things have been happening and i'm really excited for this transfer. how was your guys' Easter? we went to the baptism for two 8 year old kids in our ward and had dinner with some members. a lot of fun. it stood out to me how important the message of Easter is, but how the holiday itself isn't such a huge deal in our church since we're always focusing on the message anyways. that's really our message at it's core: that Christ lives, and because He lives, we too can live.

Love you all, have a good week!

Elder Lamb