So I'm in the
sticks of Virginia Jordan ’s apartment is
in a town called Woodstock Virginia Baltimore
Reality
seriously slapped me hard in the face it was super difficult. We spent that
night in a nice hotel where they had a good breakfast, and then we went to the
transfer meeting where we all had to bare our testimonies in front of a lot of
people so that was scary. I found Taylor Petterson there and we were both super
stoked to see each other, so that was pretty awesome. My new companion elder
Zander and I are really different to say the least. He has only been out SIX
WEEKS and he is training me. He’s a good missionary for how long he has been
out but we both have different personalities and stuff so we butt heads a little
so that’s a little frustrating.
Anyway our
apartment is really nice by missionary standards. It has two bedrooms and two
bathrooms and a decent little kitchen so that’s nice. I just barely went
shopping at Wal-Mart (pretty much the only store within 30 miles) and bought
some food, I think I budgeted pretty good and got a two liter of mountain dew
so that’s good ha-ha. I have already taught so many people I have lost count,
many of the people are super nice out here until you travel 5 miles away then
all the hicks just want to kill us ha-ha. Living in the middle of nowhere is
really weird and hard. There is a little over a 100 members in our branch that
covers about 30 miles ha-ha. To put things in perspective of how in the middle
of nowhere I am, I have seen two wolves, a snake, a fox and about 300 possums.
Apparently there are black bears every where too. The bugs and humidity here
are INSANE I look soaking wet all day from how much I sweat, and the bugs just
flock to me, there are humongous spiders and roaches everywhere. Mom you would
NOT like it here ha-ha. Yes people eat possum and all other crazy stuff out
here, its like a place you would see in a movie. I have had lots of great
experiences out here but even more hard experiences.
There is so much more things I could tell you,
I just don’t have time. We had three baptisms on date yesterday and all of them
fell through :( hopefully on sunday though they will be ready. Everyone out
here has already heard the gospel from the previous missionaries or already has
an opinion so its really hard to get investigators especially with our large
spread out area. Anyways please send me letters and things as often as
possible. You dont truly understand how important mail is until your out here.
Your letters and things sometimes are the only thing that gets me though the
day. I am really trying to lose myself in the lords work and focus, but it’s
really hard to not think about home. Btw you can send all letters to the
mission home, it takes awhile to get to me though I guess because I haven’t
gotten anything since I have been here. Anyways enough about me, how are you
all doing
LDS members out here are all huge BYU fans
including the stake president who is one of me and Elder Zander’s good friends.
He writes for the AP and Dessert news, he’s a super awesome guy and has bought
us dinner 3 times already. You have no idea how good it is to have so many good
members back home. There are only a handful of really solid families out here
and they have so much responsibility with multiple callings and things, I feel
bad for some of them. BTW one our new investigators are from New York
Anyways I
better wrap this up even though there is so much to share. Oh yea btw thanks
for shipping my bike, its way to hot to ride it right now ha-ha, good thing we
have a 2010 corolla to drive around hahahahaha. Anyways I love you all so much I
hope I come back alive ha-ha I almost got killed 5 times already by various
things, not to make you worry! hahaha ;) I hope to here from ya soon. I think
about you all every single day.
-love Wes
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