Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Howdy! from Montana

It has been an interesting first week here in the mission field. I am currently serving in the town of Laurel, just outside of Billings. My companions are Elders Freeman and Neilson. It was the strangest feeling to be outside the MTC. At the airport everyone was staring at us (Elder Dearborn and me) and members were constantly coming up to us and ask us where we were headed. I wanted so much to talk with people on the plane, but on my first flight to Denver the people either slept or were plugged into the TV, and on the plane to Billings the plane was so small that the sound of the propellers was too loud to talk over. Elder Dearborn and I are not in a companionship together yet, because the President is waiting till transfers; which are next week. There isn't room in the basement we're living in for one more person to sleep, so I've had the couch for the last week, which is surprisingly better than the MTC mattresses. A lot of our work is with the less active members of the ward. The few investigators we do have are progressing slowly, but I have high hopes for a couple of them. (I have high hopes for all of them, but you know what I mean) We had zone conference last Tuesday and a visit from Santa, who brought us candy, and hand sanitizer. I've been trying to keep up with my language study, but with no one to practice on it's slipping a little. I am still determined to find the one Brasileiro in Montana and Baptize them. The culture is a lot different here. I have never seen so many houses with so many hunting trophies before. I'm having trouble with thinking of what more I could write. It's been "warm" this week; which means that it has gotten all the way up to 40. I've been warm enough since we haven't been doing any tracting and most people keep their houses warm. Hopefully I'll have more exciting news next week.
My address for this next week is:
1631 valley drive
laurel, MT, 59044

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