Excerpt from Josh's email Sept. 9- I have been reading Jesus the Christ i just started it the other day.I'm on chapter 4. It's really good. I was reading somewhere that we need to study the life of Jesus Christ so i decided that was a good way to do it. I have also been reading the Book of Mormon as always. I love the Book of Mormon. It's got so many great things in it. Just all the scriptures there are a lot of good things. My scripture i wrote in my planner for this transfer is Ephesians 6:12. It's a really good one. I have a testimony of that for sure. That's why i have been trying to strengthen my testimony, because that is the armor that is what gives us strength, Sister Sheppard sent me something too that helped it was about testimony and how we need to use it or we will lose it. In preach my gospel it talks about our testimony builds a protection or armor around us, which is so true. I know that as we are obedient to the commandments of the lord we are blessed and we become free. I have been pretty busy lately. We have a lot of work to do here. We need to go contacting and also tracting more.  Next month i will be gone 1 year! Pretty nuts! It really goes by so fast i can't even believe it! I have learned and grown so much on my mission.