Week 4

Alrighty!  First P-day in the mission field!  Let's start off with the plane ride.  We got up and like 2:30 to get everything we hadn't already packed all packed up and such-not,  then drove to the airport  where our plane left at 7 or something to georgia.  On the plane one of the sister's placed a book of Mormon and pretty much taught the first lesson to some other lady which was pretty cool.  We made a stop in Georgia for about 2 hours then flew the rest of the 25 minutes to Nashville.   Then the Mission Pres. and some of his family and the AP's met us there and we headed to the mission home. The next day we drove through one of the top 10 most wealthy area's in the US to get to our church for the transfer meeting.  SUPER nice houses, most made of brick... in fact, most of the houses are made of brick down here, keeps out the humidity better i suppose.  Got my new Companion, Elder Freeze from Provo. and headed out to my area, Shelbyville! McMinnville zone.  but we are actually in a town called Lewisburg, there is about 7 or 8 thousand people there i think...   Anyways, my very first lesson was with a guy named Thomas, he's pretty much a Golden investigator...  Really wants to be baptized and learn as much as he can about the church, so that was cool.  He's our only progressing investigator right now though.  We meet with a lot of other people, but they either don't progress or their less active's.  There is a Lot of inactive people here.  I think its about 35% active.  There is another guy named Jock, He's what you'd call an "Eternigator", someone who was been investigating for about 10 years.  He's married 2 different mormon's and really likes our church and the missionaries in particular, but he won't get baptized!!! its pretty frustrating, but alot of people around here are like that, they just say that Everyone is going to be saved so they don't care what religion they are.  But i think he'll come around pretty soon.  People are kinda strange around here,  But the other missionaries say its better in the city... i'm way out in the hickish part of Tennessee. about 45 or so minutes from Georgia.   But Tennessee is sooo cool! ALOT of rock!  All over on the sides of the roads there is just like rock walls about 4 feet high, its sweet.   And it's like only 2 feet or less till you hit rock from the ground.    Oh and we don't have a car in our area, which is i think, now the only area in Tennessee that doesn't. so we walk everywhere or get rides from members.  And we live in the ghetto too.  There is a guy named Jamal in one of the ghetto houses, he's pretty cool.  He looks JUST LIKE Theo Huxtable from the Cosby show. its hilarious.  Then we have a guy named Billy who i think might be dead, they used to go over to his house everyday and when they knock he'd always say "come in" cause he cant move around and stuff, but i haven't ever been able to meet him cause he either always gone whenever we go over or he's dead... and we go over everyday.  So thats a little odd.  Our appartment is nicknamed the Dungeon cause its just a basement of a hair salon and it has No windows at all, i'll show you pictures of it sometime.

Running out of time so just real quick,  Mom, can you send me the recipes for German Pancakes and No bake cookies? thanks.

Heres the address to send everything to.  You can put it up on my facebook too.

105 westpark drive suite 190 Brentwood TN 37027
I expect many real mails and packages now.. :)

And why is no one else writing me beside's mom and dad? HMM?? no Chris or even melanie anymore... How rude

Welp, Got to go
Love you guys