Hello hello,

It sure sounds like this week has been a great one! BASEcamp is BOOMING and blessing lives of many! How are we almost in August?? Where has the time gone?

I am glad to hear that you got to meet up with the Santana's again as well. How I love them. I remember all the times where we would go over to their house for parties and how they were just family to us. They also gave us those great Root Beer mugs that we always used for Root Beer floats. Haha great memories. 

Happy happy Birthday Dad!!! What have you guys done for it? Eat any chocolate cake? I had an opportunity to talk with Nalin this past week on Facebook and she said she misses your chocolate cake the most! Hahaha I told her that I felt the same way:) They miss you guys alot.

Transfers are coming up again! I have a friend who is coming into the mission this upcoming transfer. I don't know if you remember Tessa Hermann or not, but she will be coming in with the Elders and Sisters this transfer and there will be another friend coming in December. We are being blessed.

This week we had a new investigator come in to the church. We were starting to teach her and she said something really interesting. She said she was given a Bible about 10 years ago, loved reading it and wanted to change, wanted to follow Jesus Christ, but when she went to go investigate churches, she found a lot of different sects all saying that they had the truth and they were the right church. She was very very confused. (Does this sound familiar? Like Joseph Smith?) But instead of prayer for an answer like Joseph Smith, she forgot about the whole thing and dismissed it as just a different feeling. As we were teaching her the whole time I was silently praying to Heavenly Father, thanking Him for the fullness of the gospel that we now have on Earth. She then asked, "What really is Christianity? Where is the truth?" I was overjoyed and humbled as I said, "We have the answer that you are looking for." My companion Elder Tamang bore a beautiful testimony about the apostasy and about the Book of Mormon. It just strikes me how interesting it is that how clearly you can see the Lord's hand in people's lives. She has been clearly prepared since 10 years ago and beyond that to come and find the truthfulness about Joseph Smith, The First Vision and about the Book of Mormon. I know these things are true, not because I believe other people, but because I've prayed personally about them. Anyone can receive an answer. That's the best part about it:)

How is Sean and Jaimie and Finn doing? Have you gotten to go see them?

Love you all so much! 

Elder Tanner