A difficult week

New companion is Elder Jensen. He's from Morgan utah. Its been interesting training a new missionary. He's humble so thats good. He's doing better and better each day. This transfer will be a good one. Michelle is doing good. She enjoyed conference and has lots of questions. We are having FHE with her at a members house tonight, so that will be good. She accepted Baptism, she just thought the 26th of this month was too soon, so we are working with her to pick a date. Had a huge rain storm come through a few days ago and it flooded. And its raining again today really hard.

I'm gonna go play basketball for a little while and get my mind off things for a little bit. Ill be back on later to email. Love ya all.

I'm not quite sure what words to use in this email to express my emotions. its ok and I understand it was an accident. 

Man this week has been tough. Losing Colleen and Bonzi. It's been really tough on me. I miss Bonzi so much. I've missed him since the day I left and I dreaded the day of hearing of his passing. Many prayers have been said, pleading that he would be there when I get home. But somehow I knew inside that he wasn't going to be. I guess it just wasn't the will of Heavenly Father. I just don't understand why it had to happen while I am on my mission. This is so hard to type this. Each sentence I have to hold back tears. I had to just get up and go into the bathroom to pray and cry because I couldn't hold it in any longer. Knowing of the Plan of Salvation is a blessing and it helps to cope with the pain. But the pain is still there. I know we will see him again but, I just was hoping to see him when I got home. This is going to be a tough day to finish out. Ironically we will be teaching the Plan of Salvation tonight to Michelle. She came to conference on saturday and she is interested in temples and Families being sealed together. I have a new perspective on the Plan of Salvation and the atonement and a greater testimony of them. I pray that the atonement has been comforting you all. I sure miss Bonzi a lot right now. He was one of my best friends and buddies. I remember when Eden broke up with me and I was losing it and really sad, I layed next to him and just talked to him about it and I remember how much that helped. I hope you told him how much I loved him and miss him. Thank you for the pictures and the letter. I love you all.

Elder eastin