3709 San Pablo Rd. S #2105
Jacksonville, FL 32224

Heres my address! Oops... Sorry i didnt email yesterday. We ran out of time so im sending a quick one today. Dad did you get the letter i sent you for Father's Day? Sounds like either a boring or a relaxing weekend with everyone but you and rachel gone. Sounds like mom and Aaron and Caleb are having fun! I played soccer for the first time since my surgery yesterday. My hip was better than i thought but i havent played sports for so long that im really sore today. Hey i was thinking about what i need for my birthday. I really need a hair cutting kit so i can cut my own hair. Just on of those razors with all the different sizes that clip on. Also, we go to the gym every day here and ive been running a lot but all i have are my Pumas which are very worn out and dont have much support. I was thinking i could pick out some running shoes or something. This week has been a bit crazy for me. Ill be Spanish for the rest of my mission. I got my new name tag in spanish, a preach my gospel, and a new set of scriptures in spanish today at zone conference. I love zone conferences! They are extremely inspiring and keep me going. We have them once a month now instead of every 6 weeks. Last friday was insane! Our zone had a challenge for each companionship to teach 200 lessons in one day! It was 115 degrees and and we spent every second of the whole day tracting and contacting to reach it. Our zone and our mission broke all of our previous records. As a mission last week we taught 6600 lessons, found 1069 new investigators, and had 22 baptisms. The mission is fire and i have never seen so many people work so hard in the blazing heat day after day to brings souls to God. We have seen miracle after miracle this week. At zone conference two people told stories of how they prayed for their investigator to have a dream to know they need to be baptized and that very night they had dreams about being baptized. Another was a man who was woried about the salvation of his mother who died a year ago and was gardening wen he passed out for six hours in the mud and had a vision where she spoke to him and told him he needed to do what the missionaries said and pray about the Book of Mormon, be baptized, and then go to the temple so that she can be baptized. Another miracle was from the english missionaries in our area. They told a recent convert to think of a friend they can teach. She prayed for someone she knew that the missionaries would find her. Later that day her friend knocked on her door and said the missionaries finally found her. The missionaries in a different area had knocked on her door and she said she had been looking for them for a very long time. They compared times and at the very moment the lady prayed, the other missionaries knocked on her door. Another miracle of a brand new missionary who ran into a lady who wanted them to come visit her husband in the hospital. He was going to go through "cheemo" therapy later that day so they taught him and gave him a blessing. Then when he was about to go in for kemo he starting shaking all over his body. They couldnt figure out why but they did some tests and he had neumonia and a blood infection. The doctor said if he would have gone through chemo he might not have made it because if youre sick at all beforehand, chemo weakens your body so he wouldnt have been able to fight it off. Without that sign of him shaking, noone would have known and he may not be alive. Miracle after miracle after miracle. Never has my faith in Christ grown more than it has this week. Its taking a while to learn the language but ive been able to at least approach people by myself and teach them about Christ coming to America, bear my testimony, and invite them to be baptized or if we can come back and teach them. Thats about all the Spanish i know my companion pretty much teaches all the main lessons. Its a lot of fun though! Well i hope these miracles strengthen your faith as much as it did mine. I wish i could have shared more detail but i dont have much time. I love you and miss you all very much. Have a great week!

Love,Elder Carty