South Carolina Columbia

May 19 Hi Everyone,   This week was a pretty fun week! I went Spanish for two days and that was fun! I google translated a prayer during our studies during the morning to hopefully use it but the Spanish missionary I was with didn't ever let me say anything.  It was all good tho because it was probably pretty bad anyways. But other than that we didn't have much happen. We did get to meet some cool people and this week should be a good one.   Some flooding pictures from last week.   Love, Elder Gurney

  May 5 & 12 Hi everyone, This week was pretty fun! I was able to go to zone conference and got to see everyone in the zone.  President Hamblin gave a training on baptism and it was really interesting hearing the difference between our type of baptism and other ways.  It was a great conference and during lunch I sat next to President Hamblin and we chatted it up a bit.  Not much else notable happened this week.  We have not been seeing too much success but that's alright.     May 12 This week was a pretty quality week.  We started out by going on exchanges with the APs and I got to stay in my area with Elder Forese.  He's a cool missionary and this was our second exchange which was fun.   We have been working with a man named Fred.  He really wants to get baptized but has some habits that he needs to break or make progress.  I talk to him every day to encourage him.  I think that if he had...