Missionary Update

Elder Dustin Tanner has been out in the mission field for almost 4 months now. He is doing so great. We always recieve such positive emails from him each week that I can't help but grin from ear to ear as I read them. He has just gotten a new companion, an Elder Boyed from Colorado. He thinks that they will get along great. He also got to move to a new apartment, in a new neighborhood. He describes it as a much nicer place in a nicer neighborhood but their are still lots of cockroaches. You get a picture.
He has had such great experiences since being a missionary. You can just feel the spiritual growth that he is going through in the messages we recieve. They are short but sweet. As most missionary moms know, you don't get a whole lot of detail, but you can read between the lines. He has met some very interesting people in N.Y. and a lot of different nationalities. They have had a baptism and Dustin was asked to baptized the young man. They are now getting a young girl and another man ready for baptism on the 23 of this month. He loves the people in the Bronx ward. He says that he thinks they all like him too because they remember his name and they don't remember the other missionaries. He is such a people person that I think he can influence people just by getting to know them.
I am so happy to have him there. People always ask me if I worry about him and I can honestly say that I don't. If I could see where he was that would probably change, but probably not. I don't worry at all because I know he is where he needs to be and he is on the Lord's errand.
Dustin has had a mission conference with all the missionaries in N.Y. Elder Uchtdorff attended and Dustin said it was a highlight to shake his hand. The couple missionaries in his district, The Morrisons have sent a couple pictures of their district missionaries and we have loved seeing him. He looks healthy and happy.( Though he did inform me he was sick for a while and lost about 20 pounds) He has also had the opportunity to go to the museum, The Bronx Zoo and A Yankees game. My favorite part of his letters is hearing about the people he teaches and how the spirit effects their lives and changes their lives. Overall Dustin is doing great and loving what he is doing.