5/01/09 update

On April 10 Daniel and his companion got to baptize Suede. Here is a picture from that baptism.

On April 27 Daniel was transfered to Johnstown, PA. Johnstown is located in the western portion of the mission, only about 60 miles east of Pittsburgh. Johnstown is famous for its floods. This is the biggest town Daniel has served in - over 23,000. The terrain is very hilly and forested. Daniel's new companion is Elder Reese from New Mexico. Elder Reese has been out only a few month's longer than Daniel.

4/6/09 update

The big news from Daniel is that he will not be coming home from the Pennsylvania Harrisburg mission. He will be coming home from the Pennsylvania Pittsburg mission. As of July 1, when Elder Pugh, the Pennsylvania Harrisburg mission president, completes his service they will be combining the Harrisburg mission into the Pittsburg mission. That gives the mission the entire state except for the Philadelphia area. He does not know anthing else about it at this point. Daniel is looking forward to a baptism this weekend. He said he really enjoyed conference, particularly Elder Bednar's talk. He and his companion got to teach a combined RS and priesthood lesson recently on PMG. They taught how members should learn from it and use in just like the missionaries do. They have still been doing a lot of tracting, but do not have many people they are working with.