I'm Furious

To put it short: I am not happy right now. We got our transfer notice and it seems like I will be transferred somewhere else. I was not expecting this. I was hoping either I would stay in this area with my companion or that my companion left. That is neither the case. The reason why it changed is because this Lethbridge West Zone will not be a zone anymore. It is now turning into a district and becoming part of the Lethbridge Central Zone. We knew this was coming, but on who was getting transferred, we did not know what was going on. To be honest, I am pretty dang close to be saying that I am done with missionary work and that is not good. We'll just see what will happen this next transfer and if I like the area or not.

Conference was pretty good. Lots and lots of talks about marriage which is pretty sweet. But it made me a bit trunkie as well. It kinda amazed me when that guy opposed the first presidency and the quorum of the twelve. All the missionaries were quite surprised. I don't think it shook our faith much, but how it was handled was pretty good. We had a good time watching all sessions. None of our investigators came seeing that they did not even communicate back with us. So, yeah.

This week was slow because the members were gone for most of Easter weeking and our investigators were not making any contact with us. Plus a missionary went home for medical problems, but he is grateful that he is home so that he can rest up and see if he can get better. I already told you my opinion on people getting set home so I won't repeat it.

I got the Easter package and I thank you for that. For my next package, I would like more socks. The books that you sent me I already both have and read so I gave it to my companion. Thank you for all the treats and the explanation of school. It seems the best choice is BYU-I because I would be saving a lot more money, but i am torn on going or not going because when we went there, there was nothing there. I will worry about it more as I get more and more closer. I am not saying that I don't want to go to school. I want to go to school, but I am having a hard time deciding where to go. 

Again, I am sorry if this email is short. It was just not a good week at all. I guess it is now time for questions:

Question #1: What was my favorite talk in conference?

Uchtdorfs talks were all good and I really love Elder Hollands talk. I did like all the marriage ones however and how much emphasis they put on it. I don't think I have a favorite yet.

Question #2, have Jordan and Seline been living together for very long and what is their feelings about getting married? 

I am not exactly sure on how long they have been living together, but I am guessing a while. They are totally fine with getting married, but for planning with it, not a fan. 

Question #3, with today being Easter, did any members invite you and your companion over for a special Easter dinner?

Yes, one did. The Woods invited us over for a Passover dinner which we followed the tradition of the Passover, watched Prince of Egypt, and ate with them. It was pretty fun and it filled our day up pretty good. Did it effect my watching my eating thing? Not really.

 Question #6, was Nick Seiter your age or was a little older than you?

No, I don't think so. 

Well, that seems to be my email. I will let you know who my new companion is asap when I get him and hopefully my mood will improve. Also one more thing: I am sending a package home to you guys. DO NOT OPEN IT TILL I GET HOME! Thank you! Love you bye!

The PURGE!!

Holy Cow we are getting purged! My mind is totally blown right now! I am just losing it!! GAH! We got the call yesterday that both me and Elder Robinson are both leaving our area! We were both excited, but pretty dang freaked out! We have so much cleaning to do it is not even funny!!

We mostly spent this week just doing service which always helps when we don't have anything to do. Service helps fill in the times that we don't know what to do. This service was extremely hard though because we were doing demolition. We were tearing up floors and all that and it made me so sore for some odd reason. Still, I liked it.

To be honest, I am kinda happy that we are leaving this YSA ward. It was really fun and all and I loved the members, but the work was hard to do here. Now hopefully I will go to a great ward with family and all. I am still going to miss all.

On facebook you can see my pictures I recently took. We were with two members named Natalie Harris and Graham. They are both hilarious people and we had one final dinner with them before we said good-bye. It was amazing! I am going to miss them. I am also going to take some pictures of our mission mom in this area who is Sister Sannes. She was awesome! She is also hilarious and we will miss her dearly! I will post some pictures of me and her and all the family. The family was awesome and I could relate to them so much!

So next week is mothers day eh? That will be pretty dang sweet to talk to my family. To be honest, it felt like it was last week when I talked to you guys. Maybe you guys have gone through some changes since then. I can't wait! I don't know what time will work best for us. Hopefully I can talk to you before we skype.

Well, I got to go get some cleaning done with our pad and car for transfers. Love you all!

This week just sucked!

This entire week was just horrible! Not just work wise, but everyone in our YSA is leaving! I am going to miss them soooooo much! I loved talking with them and hanging out with them and now they are going to different areas! BLAH! This is the last week of this transfer and I will probably leave this week so if I am getting package, it better be soon or I may miss it if I am going somewhere else. Still, I feel like I may stay for one more transfer here, but who knows. 

Anywho, we been focusing more on less-actives here because our two recent investigators have been dropped. Andrea is "dropped" because here member boyfriend is telling us to give her space so that she can think about our discussions and all. So we won't be seeing much of her. Our other one is Kevin who was new last week, but we heard he also is moving somewhere else this week. Dang it! Everything that is about to happen that is good just gets turned around and goes the opposite way! It sucks!

To be honest, at sometimes I feel like I am done with this ward. It has tried my patience a ton and I don't get mad that easily. Gah! If I am staying, I am going to probably tell all the ward members that we need desperate help for the work. 

Our district is still getting pretty dang close. I cannot complain. We have fun when we spend time with each other and it is awesome! We have our laughs here and there and I love it. It is going to be sad IF I do leave this next week. This last week did go pretty dang fast. I wonder why as you go longer in the mission, the time seems to go faster and faster! It may be because we are just getting used to doing it over and over and over and over. 

Yesterday was super brutal! We were pretty busy with church and stuff, but couldn't meet with anyone. And at the end of the day I lost my wallet and I was stressing out like crazy! They say that if you stress out then it is a good thing because it shows you are alive, but I don't like this amount to stress. :/ I am sure I will calm down when I either find something to do or move to another area.

Sorry for the bad report this week. This week was probably the worst week ever, but I am moving on and I am sure that no week can suck this bad right? :/. See you all and love ya!

The mission just keeps getting harder...-_-

Looks like everyone is leaving this area because of the summer which is bad. I am going to miss people so much here. But we may get some few new people in our ward because people will also be moving here in the summer. But they still can't replace the people hear before them. :(

Anywho, we found a new investigator for the moment. Turns out he is also moving sometime in the summer which makes me kinda more depressed, but oh well. Easy come easy go.

Our district is getting as awesome as ever. We enjoy each other so much as the pictures you may see on facebook. I am just putting them on facebook to store them, but we haven't got the ok quite yet for facebook, but it is coming very soon. It is just something I do. I don't trust the electronics I have to store my photos so I am posting them on the web so that I do not lose them forever over some accident.

My interview with president was swell. We talked about a few things and it was sweet. I can go to the temple...as long as a member takes us and we can't find a member to take us quite yet. I hope we can sometime. I haven't gone to the temple since before my mission and I really want to go there again sometime. there are two temples in our area and I haven't gone to either of them yet. Anywho, I also asked President about why the mission was changing soooo much! It is crazy how much it changes. He just told me their are different ways that we can touch peoples lives.

Andrea has not contacted us yet on how her reading the Book of Mormon is going...I think she's either busy or trying to get away from us. Spooky. 

That is cool that my package is coming. I hope it comes not right at the end of the transfer so I can use the stuff before I pack up and go to a new area if I am getting transferred. I can also see that I am becoming a better missionary than I thought I was. I can talk to people easily now than before. I guess that will help me pick up a girl when I get home ;), Just kidding!

This week might fly by again like any other week. It is weird that about 4 weeks is a month and the weeks fly by! Anywho, I got to go! I will send another email next week! Love you!

Another fast week flew by and I am 8 today!

Jeez!! Can the mission fly by any faster?! That was a pretty dang fast week!!! I can't believe that it has already happened for 8 months. 4 more and I am halfway done!!! Freak!!!

Well this week we try to focus on finding. Not only is it difficult to find investigators here, but it is becoming even more difficult. Every one is leaving because school is getting out and the people that usually talk to us are leaving. We are very likely to get purged at the end of this transferred since they are combining the YSA wards together and they only really need just one set of elders there. But we are doing as much as we can!

My companion and I are getting along so well! We talk about people we know at home quite often! It is crazy how much we can talk about with people at home. We get along so well and with our district as well! 

President Interviews are actually this week and I am going to talk to him about a couple things and see how he answers to my questions. I love my President however. I heard that he does have 10 kids which is...wow! He is someone I can really open up to and that is crazy that I can do that with him. 

The work has been...flowing. Trying to set up an lesson with Andrea. We committed her to read the Book of Mormon with only her Heavenly Father. We want to see how well she is doing with that. 

It is crazy how much our mission is changing. We are changing how we do goals and all that. I am just overflowed with all this change and it kinda stresses me out like being senior companion. I still can't believe I am in charge. I mean, I was in charge a lot when I was with my friends of telling them what we were doing, but here it is a whole different story. Its like being in charge is a pretty freakin important deal here! Like...my salvation depends on it :/. GAH!!!!

Anywho, I think that is all I have to say about this week. Hopefully my stress will die down next week. Till then, see ya later!!!

Well...

This week was pretty difficult to find work. Finals is about to start and people usually are hard to talk to because of it. However, we are doing our best out here so that we can talk to people. 

We did have a do or die lesson with our investigator Andrea! GAHHHHHHHHHHHH!! I wanted to die at the begining of that lesson because we watched this weird anti Mormon thing that just...was horrible. Not as in horrible as faith shakening, but like bad as in they didn't do a very good job. After we explained that it wasn't important that she learned those kind of things. We told her the thing she really needs the most is the read the Book of Mormon with Heavenly Father and Him alone so that she may be able to know if it is true or not. It was a good thing we brought our ward mission leader with us because he was really powerful when he was explaining stuff to her. It was probably way better than what I could have said. We are still going to work with her though and see if she needs any more help.

That one referral I talked about with the Zone leaders gave us, yeah she got dropped. She didn't want to get baptised anymore which is pretty sad. I have a feeling it was because I spelled her name wrong. She is pretty easily offended and I feel bad that I did that. Like I am the reason why she didn't want to get baptised.

This area is getting pretty hard to work in. YSA can be fun, but it is difficult to find people to talk to. I am trying to be an example to my companion. It is tough being senior companion making as much decisions as I do. :/ 

Elder Robinson, I didn't know him before no. We didn't know each other at all. We do know people in common though. We do like much of the same music and such. We are both pretty chill. We do hang with the district and give them rides quite often because we have the most clicks. Our district is pretty dang tight. 

Well, other than that we are getting interviewed by President soon. I guess I will see you guys next week! Love ya!

Well this transfer is going to be...crazy

Well, as you know like I told you last time it was transfers. My old companion went up north to South Calgary. He seems to like it there so far. I got a new companion and he is younger than I am so I am the senior companion! O my goodness I am freaking out so much! Cool thing is that my companion is from American Fork as well. We learned we live like 3 minutes away from eachother. HIs name is Elder Robinson. He pretty legit! I like him a ton and I feel like this is going to be a great transfer.

Our investigator that we got from the Zone leaders has not contacted us and we try to keep contacting her but she hasn't responded. Her roomate told me is because apparently I spelled her name wrong in the text I sent her and she took offence of that. So....I don't know what to tell ya. She has to push back her baptismal date though because she didn't come to church this Sunday and she needed to go at least twice in a row. So when we meet her, we will have to tell her that.

Andrea, our other investigator, we have gotten closer to her, but she is still progressing really slow. Yes her boyfriend is a member. We plan on teaching her this Thursday, but we still need to figure what exactly we need to teach her.

We got a bunch of changes in our zone. This transfer alone, President moved 108 missionaries including 28 purged areas. It was crazy! Almost every companionship in our zone has a new elder or sister. But our zone is pretty legit I think. We have so much fun together when we meet up and talk or work together. I have a feeling that this transfer is going to be a blast!

The missionary work is picking up insanely this transfer and we are hoping to get lots of investigators introduced to us. It will go swell.

I am completely shocked with all the news that is going on at home. Courtney getting married?! Kelsey as well?!!! Kyle going on a mission!? ASHLEY AS WELL!!!??? Jeez, what am I missing here!? I am freakin shocked on what is going on, and I only have been gone for 7 months!!! Gah! O well, we will see how it goes when I get back.

We are also expecting a purge after this transfer. The reason is because they combine the three YSA wards here and take two of the missionaries companionship out. If not it will probably be a shock to us. O well, we will see what will happen. 

Well, this is all I got for what has been going on this week. Crazy week as you can see. Phew!! I am still pretty stressed about being Senior companion and doing most of the stuff here. Well, talk to you guys next week!

-Elder Perucca

This week was great...but ended off...ugh

Heyo,

This week a lot of things happened. First of all we got in with our investigator Andrea and had a...pretty rough lesson. I am not sure we are getting anywhere with her. She is reading and coming to church and praying, but she keeps kinda Bible bashing us as we try to explain stuff to her. She is getting a lot of information about us from different sources. Some not so good. It was mainly a talk on what we do in the temple without telling too much about it. Luckly, her boyfriend came in at times to back us up, but I still feel that she will not progress if this keeps happening. I hope that we can help her a ton to understand.

On the other side, we got some rather happy news. We got a call on Thursday from another Zone Leader in Lethbridge saying that a investigator that is in our area called him and wanted to be baptized. They went to meet her and they set her date on April 14th! We just have to teach her the lessons and also hope that she will be able to come to church twice in a row. Her name is Mickayla and she seems super nice and solid. I hope that she goes through with this as we work with her. 

We are still working with the ward here and there. We are hopefully going to do splits with them on Wednesday. We are also trying to get in contact with more people and get to know our ward more.

Also, Elder Smith is getting transferred :'(. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! We had such a fun time together. He is going somewhere in the north, which means either in Calgary or somewhere near there. It is going to be tough seeing him go. I wonder if I am going to like my new companion or if its going to be another rough one. :/ Hopefully it is one that we like.

I have been out almost for 7 and 1/2 months. This mission is going by pretty fast, but I wonder if it is going to go faster. Perhaps so. Anyway, there is quite a bit that is going to happen this week with the new companion and all and the new investigator with the baptismal date. It will be hard to juggle it. 

This last sacrament meeting was awesome though. It was mainly focused on the spirit of service! There was a lot of times where I did feel the spirit of peace come over me when the speakers talked about it. It was swell. I hope our investigators felt it as well. Well, I think that is all I have to report on this week. Love you all and stay safe!

This week was...meh

Heyo,

The week has been better, but still not too active in the work. We were surprised however that the ward mission leader wants to start doing exchanges with the ward missionaries and us as well. It will get us to do something. The ward is getting more and more into the work and because of Elder Holland coming down to Lethbridge for a Leadership training, I think that was the final push that helped them want to do something. Hopefully, it will give us more activities to do. 

Yes, next week is transfers week and it is highly probable that Elder Smith is going to leave this area. He was a cool companion though and I learned quite a bit from him. He is very intelligent. He has also taught me a lot of valuable insights. But we will see how my next companion will be.

We don't have any senior couples serving in our area, but I don't doubt that there are other senior couples here in the mission.

Elder Nelson's devotional was awesome. We only saw a broadcast of it here in Lethbridge. It was pretty funny though how he called up 4 elders and they weren't expecting anything. Then he asked them to role play with them. It would have been terrifying for me if I got called up to role play with an apostle. But he taught us that we need to talk more not just to investigators, but to our members as well. We need to work hard with the members cause we can't do it alone. Me and Elder Smith both looked at each other and nodded because that's what we were trying to do. After the devotional, we helped moved this family in a new house for 6 Freakin Hours! I have been so sore these past 2 days and it is nuts. I have to keep popping my back and all. Anyways, that is mainly what happened this week.

We are trying to do, as usual, help our ward do missionary work. I don't know how exactly they are responding, but the ward council wants to do something. We are also trying to help some less-actives come back and there are quite a bit of them. 

Well, that is really the main points of what happen this week. We are going on exchanges with our district leader tomorrow and we will see how that will go. Love you all!

This week is warming up

This week has gotten a bit better. The ward is now trying to work with us so we can get to know more people and all. We will start going home teaching with them sooner or later as soon as there time is free. This week however was pretty grand. We went to a less-actives house again and made some lasanga. It was really good. However, we ate it three days in a row and I am kinda sick of it so I am going to take a break from it and focus on finishing my mac & cheese.

I got mail last P-day. I got a package from my priest leader and I loved all the letters the priest sent to me. Although, they were pretty old, but I could feel the love and care for me. Thank you guys for supporting me out here. It is really tough and I hate to say what everyone else is saying about missions, but it is a lot of fun! 

We have been getting more and more less-actives lessons and it has been going swell. I seem to do better with less-active lessons than investigator lessons. Plus though, we are planning a finding activity with the other YSA wards in our zone. WE are going to have a movie night where members can invite their friends to watch 17 Miracles. Hopefully, this will spike up a few interests.

I may get mail today but I am not too sure. Hopefully the zone leaders will bring it to us mail today after their little activity for their P-day.

I got some exciting news though. Elder Russell M. Nelson is coming to our mission to speak with us. Jeez, just keep the apostles coming. Our mission must be pretty popular for a bunch of apostle to come here. Also, Elder Holland is coming! It is freaking crazy on what is going on. I wonder what they are going to say to us. :/

Well, that is all that has happened this week. We are still trying to get in with members and help them with missionary work. Hopefully, that will pick up this week! Love you all!

Ok...

Alright, the reason being why my letter was so stinking short last week was because my computer decided to freeze up randomly and go crazy! I couldn't really do anything! I couldn't email much people and I only had like 5 minutes to email all of you so I am sooooooo sorry for that! Hopefully the computer won't do that again which now it seems to be working great now!

Anyways, this last week was insanely cold! Yeah it said it was like -25 C when we call for the weather, but they don't usually tell us of the extreme wind chill which could make it go to -40!! If that happens, we are not allowed to go out anywhere. We have to stay in, so guess what we did most of this week? Stay in!! Yep! Whooooooooo!!!!...and it was boring...but hopefully the weather will do better this week.

We did go to a small activity with our YSA members. They had a talent show and before you ask, No, I did not participate in the talent show because of short notice. I wanted to, but I was a bit late. But the entertainment was great! All the members were great and they did pretty dang good. One did like a little rock concert. Another did a magic show. Then there was a random pie eating contest which was slightly entertaining.

However, the thing that was pretty dang cool was even before the talent show, we went to help and after we were done setting up, members took us out to dinner and we went to Little Caesars! Holy fetch they are different! They sell salad here! What the Fetch?! And there pizza for hot and ready is so small compared to ours and it cost $8! But we still bought some and me and Elder Smith gorged ourselves with pizza and it was fun. The members that took us out really like us and we try to help them to do missionary work.

And on that point that is what we are mainly focusing on out here. We are trying to help members get involved in missionary work because we can't all do it by ourself. We are trying to meet with as many members as possible and possibly get in their house to sit down and get to know them and help us do some missionary work. It is pretty hard to adjust to the members schedules because they have school and work. But we are trying to do the best we can do here. Sometimes it is a pain to be in this area, sometimes it is a blast.

Anywho, that is all that we got so far and again I am sorry for the short email last week and hopefully it does not happen again. Love you all and hopefully I will get your snail mail soon!

Sooooooo...rough week....

Yeah, lots of crazy things happened that made this quite a rough week. Elder Smith has been feeling sick quite frequently which is not good, but we are hoping he gets better. And guess what happened to the Elder who had his companion go home last transfer? His new companion also went home so now he is back with the Zone Leaders again. He was kinda freaking out at that time because he didn't know what the heck was going on?

Also, no one really has responded to our text messages for us to talk to and that sucks. We tried visiting a couple less-actives which was swell. but not much. But, a less-active member did call us and asked us to leave a spiritual message with him and give a blessing which was very nice! Got us something to do.

As for the two chinese women, they haven't responded to us either. Seems like everyone was busy last week which was somewhat odd. We also got some new Elders in the zone with new companionships and all. They seem cool. Our P-day though was super tiring! We played basketball and volleyball all day! I am so sore from that day. I may probably lost a little weight from that day as well. 

I could write more letters yes, but I don't have any stamps and I am kinda low on money at the moment, but when we get more I will definitely get some.

Also, I haven't taught any classes or gave any talks since I got here. Seems like they got that taken care of so it is good. Well, I should be getting mail tomorrow so if you sent any letters, I may get them tomorrow. Love you all! Bye

Transfer week!!!!...but none of us are getting transferred (yet)

Yep you read the title right. Me and my companion are not going anywhere as for now. I am still freaking out that none of us are leaving seeing that we enjoy each others company. The district we are in is not changing as much either. Only one Elder is leaving from our zone and our elder who's companion left is getting a new companion. 

We have been trying to meet people this week and it has been going pretty well. They are still busy with school and all, but they are nice enough to let us in and talk a bit. We haven't got in touch with our investigator yet, but we are hoping we will soon. We got two potential investigators whoa are both Chinese. They have been reading the book of mormon but haven't invited us over quite yet. We will work on them sooner or later.

We made some bread with a less-active family this week with another set of Elders and it was awesome!!! I will send you pictures here:

(This is the edge of my head, Elder Black, and Elder Tesimale having fun making bread)

(Elder Black is on the left, Elder Tesimale, and my companion on the bottom right, Elder Smith)

 We had such a blast making bread! The member we made bread with gave us her little secrets on how to make bread and all. She is a sweet sister and loves to have missionaries over. Sorry I can't show a picture of her. I will see what I can do with it.

Well, here comes another transfer and we are going to make the best of it. Wish us luck and love you all back home!

-Elder Perucca

This week was...crazy

Well, this week was quite interesting. We talked to some less actives and got to know some more people of the ward. We also got to go to YSA activities and learn more and more about the gospel and it was sweet. 

The thing that was pretty dang wierd was that we had an investigator that looked up some Anti-Mormon videos and wanted us to watch the movie with her next time we came. We didn't know how to really respond and we are not sure if we can or even we want to. It will be interesting on what will happen. She has been coming to church though and participating well in the Gospel Principles class by answering all the questions which is alarming to us because I don't think investigators usually do that at church.

I see one of my MTC district budies here since he is in our zone. He sprained his ankle yesterday during P-day. Which reminds me, last week on P-day we went shopping at Costco which brought many memories of home. It was like the structure of Costco was the same as home. But we got lots of good deals there and I will think I will be good for the rest of the transfer. We also went to a Sushi buffe this P-day and for someone who didn't like seafood before my mission, it was really good. I loved it and we stuffed ourselves so much. I also learned how to use chopsticks there which was awesome!

I sent a letter home explaining more of what last week was. Hopefully it will get to you soon. Love you all! See ya!

WHOOOOOOOOOOO!

This week was pretty sweet. We actually got to talk to people since they got their school figured out and all. It was just an introduction to the missionaries. We just have the YSA ward. No family wards. Nada! Zipo! Just the YSA.

Anywho, we got a lesson with an investigator. Her name is Andrea and she had a ton of questions. Very deep questions and she is very knowledgeable! We talk about one subject and then she has a question about another and it was just crazy trying to keep up with her! Although we did answer most of her questions and invited her to read the Book of Mormon more. Hopefully, she will do that next time we see her.

We also got a referral from the Lethbrige zone leader in our area and we went over, but no one was there. We will check back with them sometime and see if he is still interested.

Elder Smith and I have been getting along quite smoothly. He is way better than my last companion. He has been out 15 months and is sweet! We find things in common and have plenty to talk about! Tis sweet.

The weather out here has died down for now, but they say it is going to be crazy again soon and it may get too crazy for us to go out. :/. Hopefully we won't get snowed in this week.

Anywho, that is all I got to say. Love you all! Bye!

Lethbridge's freaking crazy weather

Heyo!

What is going on out there? The weather out here is freaking crazy! It is so fetching windy here! It has, as they say, 60 km of wind and it is hailing as well here! It is so crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!! GAH!!!!! I guess this is what it means on Canada weather.

Real quick on the games I have mentioned: WE ONLY PLAY THEM ON P-DAY!!! I said my companion got me into it by talking about it. We didn't play it till P-day. It is ok.

Now, out here in the YSA ward, we don't go tracting. It isn't really effective out here. We usually just text the Young Adults and ask if we can come over and share a message. The investigators that we have have been busy or been gone. We are working with our ward council teach people and according to the people in Ward Council, some of their friends want to take the lessons. The problem is just getting the time because school is starting and it has been crazy for them. This week will be a good one though since everyone will be back. We only cover the YSA ward.

We do however go over to this less-actives house quite often and keep inviting him to activities and share spiritual experiences. It is amazing because they love us and try to come, but work is crazy for them, but we still try to be polite and keep inviting. 

I am going to have to get used to this weather pretty soon or else I may die out here! By the way, I did say my companions name in my last letter...-__-. Well, I got to go! Lots of stuff to do today. See ya.

New Area!

HEYO,

Yep, the subject of this email is right! I have been transferred to a new area and you probably do not know it. It is in West Lethbridge and HOLY FETCH it is cold and windy here! We are in charge of a YSA ward which seems backwards to me because my last area was mainly...old people. Here its just all my age. My new companion is Elder Smith which is way different than my previous two companions. My last two companions were athletic, jocky, and was somewhat in good shape. Here it is way different!! My companion is a huge nerd, geek, and is very smart! Plus my new zone is also nerdy. Well, it is split in half with Jocks and Nerd, but I hang out with both. My new companion got me into Dungeons and Dragons!

We do have one investigator here, but I haven't met here quite yet because she hasn't come home from the holidays. We have quite a bit of less-actives here though. One who is a very very very very very very nerdy person and knows a ton about video games. Like he knows so much, he could probably give you a history of it. You thought I knew a lot about video games? OOOOOOOOOO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

My cold is getting better. Still have a bit of it still and my nose is still stuffy at some times. NO biggy. My zone is really really close together which is nice because we see missionaries every day here and its so cool!!! They all like me and I like them as well!!!!

It is crazy to hear all that is going on in the ward back at home! So much change and it won't be the same when I get back! Wow! Then again, this is only the beginning of the change eh? I do want to admit something. Canada has successfully left an imprint on me. I have now begun to say "eh" a lot frequently now. :( It is not although with a Canadian accent so hopefully I won't pick that up.

Love you all and fight through this winter!