Dear Crafts!
Sorry that this will probably be shorter than some of the previous ones. There are a lot of things that have happened here in the last week. We had an exchange that I did in the Plymouth area on Tuesday. If you can believe it it was 55 degrees! We stopped by a potential that they talked to a couple weeks ago who ended up not being interested but we asked if there was anything that we could do to help him out. He had the families van and suburban pulled out on the lawn with a couple buckets, and told us he was just about to wash the cars and we could help with that. We helped to hand wash those cars with the hose on January 10th in Minnesota! I never thought that I would ever be able to say that in Utah let alone out here in the land of cold! haha Just a fun little crazy story for the past week from here. I'll try to send you a picture of that whole event at the end of this. haha
So you may have already known that today is transfer calls. To answer Nick's question the average missionary has I have no idea how many areas. I've heard anywhere from 3 or 4 areas to 16. So it's pretty hard to tell. 14 months is definitely the longest I've ever heard of in an area haha. For me I guess I get to add another one. I know that Mom really wanted to keep the Neilson connection going in Eden Prairie, but unfortunately the Lord and President Clements had another idea. I found out that I'm not going to be staying here for the next transfer. I have really loved this area and serving with Elder Pope and I'm sure that you guys have loved all the fun little calls, emails, and rare visits from members here in Eden Prairie. I got a call on Saturday afternoon from President Clements about where I'll now be serving, so I've known for a couple days and just haven't been able to tell you. President Clements has now asked me to serve as one of his Assistants here in the W. Bloomington Area. It was definitely a shock to me and still kind of is. I'm very humbled and excited to serve in this new assignment. Like I said before I might not have as long of emails for the next few weeks due to a lack of time haha. Just as kind of a warning too I might not be able to email every Monday, but I will be able to email each week. I'll make an attempt to keep you updated and informed haha. There's going to be 3 Assistants for this transfer, so I will be with Elder Lo and Elder Crepeau who I was with for a couple days at the beginning of this transfer. It's going to be a lot of fun and pretty busy too. We have all the Zone Conferences this transfer so I'll get to tour the whole mission and see all the missionaries. It's going to be intense trying to learn all the missionaries names and areas and stuff like that. We're pretty busy doing transfer stuff today making all the calls and in the next few days we'll be picking up the new missionaries and taking the going home ones to the airport. It shouldn't be too bad since there's only 4 going home and 3 coming in. I'm pretty excited and thought you'd be pretty surprised to see how this transfer went.
I'm way excited to hear about Brady's call coming hopefully this week! That's so exciting! Remember my guesses too haha. Thanks for the pictures and emails this week from all of you. I'm glad to hear that everything's going well. I love and appreciate all that you guys do for me. Good luck for everyone this week with school, work, and everything in between (including running the mile ;) haha JK). Talk to you soon!
Love, Elder Craft
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Monday, September 12, 2011
Chaska!
Dear Everyone,
Haha I'm running out of fun clever ways to start off these emails each week. This week was definitely busy and chaotic in a sense. I spent all my time trying to pack up not only my stuff but Elder Haupt was having to pack up his stuff to move the few miles down to the Southern end of the ward. We had to try to divide up supplies and the Area Book into North and South again. Amid all this we were trying to figure out the final details so that Elder Haupt would have a place to live and trying to see these investigators that I've grown to love. We didn't get to see all of them but we did see a few people. I don't know what it is but the last couple moves of mine haven't been as easy as they could be. Most of the time transfers are just you packing up and getting your stuff out and on to your new place. Oh well we got it all done so that's what's important haha. We do transfers here a couple different ways depending on where you serve. Almost everyone in the mission that's being transferred will meet at the mission home on transfer days to meet their new companion. You can either get there in your own car if you're close or what I've done every time is get a ride with a member there. Once you're ready to leave the mission home and get to your new area you will ride with the member that brought the missionary that you're replacing typically or with a member that is taking missionaries to your area. The only time it is different usually is of you're heading South to the Rochester Zone or North to Duluth. South isn't that different. You just ride with the other group of missionaries going down in a members van that they have and your luggage goes on a trailer. The ones going North are the only ones that have to ride a bus. They catch a Greyhound from the mission home, so they have to weigh their bags and make sure they're not over 50 lbs and all that fun stuff. For that reason I'm not particularly excited to ever be moved up there. Transfers are usually pretty smooth and easy though so I'd tell a certain worried friend of ours not to worry about it because the Zone Leaders coordinate everything out here really smoothly. :) It's funny what Lance said about being with your companion more than your wife because that's something we've talked about a few times out here. Realistically you are with your companion about 23 hrs of the day. You definitely learn to cooperative and survive together haha. Either that or it can be the longest 6 weeks of your life. We get our money each month or MSF ( Missionary Support Fund) automatically from Salt Lake at the beginning of each month. They give you a debit card when you come out that is directly connected to that account so it's nothing complicated either. These are good questions but I would tell them not to worry about it again. Kevin should have his own personal account to use for things that MSF doesn't cover like I do but not to worry. Everything will be taken care of haha. I actually got my boots for free from some members in my first area. They had some used ones that fit that they just gave to me so it saved me some money. Mine are some Thinsulate boots. I don't know the specific name but Thinsulate is the brand and typically the best brand to get. I wouldn't worry about getting any specific ones before coming out unless he finds some really good ones he wants to use. Most missionaries I know have gotten theirs out here when they get to their first area. His trainer and the members will know the best place and kind to get some. Hopefully he can just luck out like I did. I hope that answers a couple of the major questions.
Sorry I don't have much time today but as for me here in the Eden Prairie ward it's going really well. The ward is huge and really nice and loves the missionaries. I actually live in the city of Chaska and we cover Chaska, Chanhassen, and a little part of Eden Prairie. Elder White just refers to it as the Garden of Eden. haha He's so funny and we get along really well. He's from Sandy and went to Alta High. I actually found out that Elder Bennett from my last district is in my district again, so that should be fun. To answer Mom's question no I am not District Leader again. I guess I didn't cut it the last time haha jk. They switch them up usually at transfers.
I wish I had more details to talk about with you to make this a little longer, but that's about it for this week. I'm trying to learn this new area where I swear there's not one straight road and all of them have the most random names haha. Like we live on Walnut St. right next to Yellowbrick Rd. I'm not even kidding. haha Thanks for all the letters and support this week. I love you all and look forward to talking to you again! Hopefully I can send some pictures next week.
Love, Elder Craft
Haha I'm running out of fun clever ways to start off these emails each week. This week was definitely busy and chaotic in a sense. I spent all my time trying to pack up not only my stuff but Elder Haupt was having to pack up his stuff to move the few miles down to the Southern end of the ward. We had to try to divide up supplies and the Area Book into North and South again. Amid all this we were trying to figure out the final details so that Elder Haupt would have a place to live and trying to see these investigators that I've grown to love. We didn't get to see all of them but we did see a few people. I don't know what it is but the last couple moves of mine haven't been as easy as they could be. Most of the time transfers are just you packing up and getting your stuff out and on to your new place. Oh well we got it all done so that's what's important haha. We do transfers here a couple different ways depending on where you serve. Almost everyone in the mission that's being transferred will meet at the mission home on transfer days to meet their new companion. You can either get there in your own car if you're close or what I've done every time is get a ride with a member there. Once you're ready to leave the mission home and get to your new area you will ride with the member that brought the missionary that you're replacing typically or with a member that is taking missionaries to your area. The only time it is different usually is of you're heading South to the Rochester Zone or North to Duluth. South isn't that different. You just ride with the other group of missionaries going down in a members van that they have and your luggage goes on a trailer. The ones going North are the only ones that have to ride a bus. They catch a Greyhound from the mission home, so they have to weigh their bags and make sure they're not over 50 lbs and all that fun stuff. For that reason I'm not particularly excited to ever be moved up there. Transfers are usually pretty smooth and easy though so I'd tell a certain worried friend of ours not to worry about it because the Zone Leaders coordinate everything out here really smoothly. :) It's funny what Lance said about being with your companion more than your wife because that's something we've talked about a few times out here. Realistically you are with your companion about 23 hrs of the day. You definitely learn to cooperative and survive together haha. Either that or it can be the longest 6 weeks of your life. We get our money each month or MSF ( Missionary Support Fund) automatically from Salt Lake at the beginning of each month. They give you a debit card when you come out that is directly connected to that account so it's nothing complicated either. These are good questions but I would tell them not to worry about it again. Kevin should have his own personal account to use for things that MSF doesn't cover like I do but not to worry. Everything will be taken care of haha. I actually got my boots for free from some members in my first area. They had some used ones that fit that they just gave to me so it saved me some money. Mine are some Thinsulate boots. I don't know the specific name but Thinsulate is the brand and typically the best brand to get. I wouldn't worry about getting any specific ones before coming out unless he finds some really good ones he wants to use. Most missionaries I know have gotten theirs out here when they get to their first area. His trainer and the members will know the best place and kind to get some. Hopefully he can just luck out like I did. I hope that answers a couple of the major questions.
Sorry I don't have much time today but as for me here in the Eden Prairie ward it's going really well. The ward is huge and really nice and loves the missionaries. I actually live in the city of Chaska and we cover Chaska, Chanhassen, and a little part of Eden Prairie. Elder White just refers to it as the Garden of Eden. haha He's so funny and we get along really well. He's from Sandy and went to Alta High. I actually found out that Elder Bennett from my last district is in my district again, so that should be fun. To answer Mom's question no I am not District Leader again. I guess I didn't cut it the last time haha jk. They switch them up usually at transfers.
I wish I had more details to talk about with you to make this a little longer, but that's about it for this week. I'm trying to learn this new area where I swear there's not one straight road and all of them have the most random names haha. Like we live on Walnut St. right next to Yellowbrick Rd. I'm not even kidding. haha Thanks for all the letters and support this week. I love you all and look forward to talking to you again! Hopefully I can send some pictures next week.
Love, Elder Craft
Monday, March 21, 2011
Spring Thaw
Hey Crafts!
I do have a home now, so everything's going much better! haha We live back in Kasson right on Main St. in an apartment that Missionaries used to live in before they were taken out of this area. It's a pretty nice apartment. I' hoping the computer won't be stupid and I'll have enough time to send the pictures that I keep promising. One of the greatest blessings about having our new apartment is that I got my mail sent to me! I think it must have been a missionary record for mail because I got 11 letters and 1 package!! I was so happy!! Elder Russell not so much. haha I knew after that day that unlike Moroni "my kinsfolk had not forsaken me". Thank you so much for everyone that sent me stuff! I know I've said it before but it really does mean a lot to know that you guys are taking to time out of your busy schedules to remember me.
It sounds like we might have close to the same weather as Utah now. At least maybe we did for a few days. Most of this past week it was 40+ degrees! It was so nice! It was almost like everyone came out of hibernating too. Everyone and their dog (literally) were outside working or running, so as a result we were able to talk to a lot more people because we knew they were home. They were already outside so they couldn't hide behind the door. Sometimes I really can swear that we see people moving inside the houses we knock on, and as soon as we get there the people crouch down and hide behind the couch or something because then the house is silent and no one's moving around. haha I find it really funny.
So I don't know if I told you guys before, if I did that's too bad, but funny fact here about the Kasson Branch is that there are an average of 30-40 members. Which means that apparently we don't have enough people for all 3 hours of church. I only go to church here from 10-12. I just thought that was kinda different and funny. One of those random facts of Kasson I get to tell you guys all about.
I'm really happy to hear that Fremont's doing so good again! That's awesome! I really hope that they take it one step further than we did last year. BYU sounds like they're doing pretty well too. If there's one thing that we can relate to people with around here about the church it's BYU basketball. Especially when we're tracting and the only thing that people have heard about the LDS Church is that recent controversy of that player who's not on the team anymore. People seem to really respect that around here which is something that I find really good.
It's crazy to think that transfer calls are a week away from today! Elder Russell says he's pretty sure he's leaving, so we'll see who's prayers will be answered. ;) hahahaha jk It is going to be interesting though that's for sure.
Dad and Mom: Thanks for the letters. I'm hoping to write you back today. Thanks for getting that delivered to Keaton too. I had an interesting card delivered to our mailbox on Saturday. It was from Todd and Brent Zaugg addressed to an Elder N. Craft. hahah I just started laughing. I don't think he's had that title for awhile now.
Nick and Tati: I hope that you interview went well Nick and that you guys are doing great out there. One of the Sisters from my MTC district wrote me and told me that she went on exchanges in your guys' area and saw your names on the records, so that was kinda cool. She said she'll probably serve there because it is a Sisters area, I guess we'll find out.
Kat and Tommy Boy: Thank you so much for the package and all the "Tommy Tricep Treats" or whatever you called them. haha I was laughing pretty hard with that email and your stories from your mission. Speaking of which who was your mission president you were an assistant to when you were out there and the name of that island you served on? Was it President Miller? Because there's a member in the branch here that said he and his wife served in the Canada Halifax Mission and served on the island of Newfoundland I think (?). But he later went back and served as a counselor in the mission presidency, so when I told him about you he said that he would have been there with President Miller as President Baker the same time as you. So I was just curious if you could know him. I don't know how he'd forget someone like Tom "Lemon Fresh" Benincosa though. ;) haha
Camie and Brock: I hope you had a really good birthday and that you got the package that I sent you. If you really don't like it just send it back and I'll get something else for you.
Brady: Congrats on the goal man!! That's so sweet!! I had no idea that Clearfield could be THAT bad! ;) haha Really though that's way cool! Keep it up. I would tell you to keep up with Jex's favorite 3 letter acronym but it's not exactly missionary appropriate. haha
Natalie: I hope you're still doing good. I haven't heard from you in a little while little girl, so maybe if it's convenient for you and you're not too busy on my phone ;) you can write me a couple lines on here. I won't even make it have to be hand-written. haha
It sounds like everyone's doing great!! I'm so happy! I pray for you all each night and thank you so much for all your prayers. Your support helps me out tremendously. I love you all and miss you so much!
Love,
Your not so frozen Minnesota Missionary Popsicle Alex.
I do have a home now, so everything's going much better! haha We live back in Kasson right on Main St. in an apartment that Missionaries used to live in before they were taken out of this area. It's a pretty nice apartment. I' hoping the computer won't be stupid and I'll have enough time to send the pictures that I keep promising. One of the greatest blessings about having our new apartment is that I got my mail sent to me! I think it must have been a missionary record for mail because I got 11 letters and 1 package!! I was so happy!! Elder Russell not so much. haha I knew after that day that unlike Moroni "my kinsfolk had not forsaken me". Thank you so much for everyone that sent me stuff! I know I've said it before but it really does mean a lot to know that you guys are taking to time out of your busy schedules to remember me.
It sounds like we might have close to the same weather as Utah now. At least maybe we did for a few days. Most of this past week it was 40+ degrees! It was so nice! It was almost like everyone came out of hibernating too. Everyone and their dog (literally) were outside working or running, so as a result we were able to talk to a lot more people because we knew they were home. They were already outside so they couldn't hide behind the door. Sometimes I really can swear that we see people moving inside the houses we knock on, and as soon as we get there the people crouch down and hide behind the couch or something because then the house is silent and no one's moving around. haha I find it really funny.
So I don't know if I told you guys before, if I did that's too bad, but funny fact here about the Kasson Branch is that there are an average of 30-40 members. Which means that apparently we don't have enough people for all 3 hours of church. I only go to church here from 10-12. I just thought that was kinda different and funny. One of those random facts of Kasson I get to tell you guys all about.
I'm really happy to hear that Fremont's doing so good again! That's awesome! I really hope that they take it one step further than we did last year. BYU sounds like they're doing pretty well too. If there's one thing that we can relate to people with around here about the church it's BYU basketball. Especially when we're tracting and the only thing that people have heard about the LDS Church is that recent controversy of that player who's not on the team anymore. People seem to really respect that around here which is something that I find really good.
It's crazy to think that transfer calls are a week away from today! Elder Russell says he's pretty sure he's leaving, so we'll see who's prayers will be answered. ;) hahahaha jk It is going to be interesting though that's for sure.
Dad and Mom: Thanks for the letters. I'm hoping to write you back today. Thanks for getting that delivered to Keaton too. I had an interesting card delivered to our mailbox on Saturday. It was from Todd and Brent Zaugg addressed to an Elder N. Craft. hahah I just started laughing. I don't think he's had that title for awhile now.
Nick and Tati: I hope that you interview went well Nick and that you guys are doing great out there. One of the Sisters from my MTC district wrote me and told me that she went on exchanges in your guys' area and saw your names on the records, so that was kinda cool. She said she'll probably serve there because it is a Sisters area, I guess we'll find out.
Kat and Tommy Boy: Thank you so much for the package and all the "Tommy Tricep Treats" or whatever you called them. haha I was laughing pretty hard with that email and your stories from your mission. Speaking of which who was your mission president you were an assistant to when you were out there and the name of that island you served on? Was it President Miller? Because there's a member in the branch here that said he and his wife served in the Canada Halifax Mission and served on the island of Newfoundland I think (?). But he later went back and served as a counselor in the mission presidency, so when I told him about you he said that he would have been there with President Miller as President Baker the same time as you. So I was just curious if you could know him. I don't know how he'd forget someone like Tom "Lemon Fresh" Benincosa though. ;) haha
Camie and Brock: I hope you had a really good birthday and that you got the package that I sent you. If you really don't like it just send it back and I'll get something else for you.
Brady: Congrats on the goal man!! That's so sweet!! I had no idea that Clearfield could be THAT bad! ;) haha Really though that's way cool! Keep it up. I would tell you to keep up with Jex's favorite 3 letter acronym but it's not exactly missionary appropriate. haha
Natalie: I hope you're still doing good. I haven't heard from you in a little while little girl, so maybe if it's convenient for you and you're not too busy on my phone ;) you can write me a couple lines on here. I won't even make it have to be hand-written. haha
It sounds like everyone's doing great!! I'm so happy! I pray for you all each night and thank you so much for all your prayers. Your support helps me out tremendously. I love you all and miss you so much!
Love,
Your not so frozen Minnesota Missionary Popsicle Alex.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Homeless
Dear Family,
So there were alot of you that asked about the whole new apartment situation and I figured it would be best to start with that. Good news is that yes we moved out of Larry's. Bad news is that we don't actually have an apartment. Larry kinda kicked us out last Tuesday, so technically I have been "homeless" the past week. haha The story is that just as I told all of you we'd been advised by the mission president to look for possible apartments in the area fro a couple weeks. Elder Russell would always say that he wanted to tell Larry because he felt like we were going behind his back. So Tuesday morning 5 minutes into our Personal study Larry came in our room and said that we needed to get ahold of President Howell because there was a "situation". His step son, Greg, who lives in the house too was going to be having his 2 kids, a girl that's 14 and a boy who's 17, move in because there have been several problems at their Mom's. So Larry said we need to ask President Howell to be out by the end of the month. Well Elder Russell saw this chance and before thinking about how to present it or filtering responses in his head he tells him, "actually that's already in the process for the last couple weeks because the situation just doesn't work here". Right as the words came out I was just thinking,"No! Bring it back' and since it had already been said and couldn't I tried desperately to think of a way to recover anything I could with the conversation. By that point it was already too late. The switch within Larry had been flipped and it was something I saw happen right before me on his face. At that point he started yelling, "Oh well that's funny that the situation just doesn't work for you two! Everyone else has seemed to love it here! Nobody else ever had any problems here. You're the only ones there's been any problems or conflicts with, and you know what you've never really meshed or fit in here anyway! We try to make accommodations because you live away from home, but apparently neither one of you has had that situation before! (I'm not even entirely sure what he meant by that statement either) So maybe the problem is with you two and you need to ask yourselves what's wrong with you!" and he just stormed out. I was in shock. Just left in a daze like what the heck just happened. I tried to follow him into the front room and explain, "Brother Smith it's not that we haven't appreciated all you've done or anything like that. We've enjoyed living here. They just move missionaries. There not meant to be in one place for a long time". But as I'm trying to explain he just screams, "I don't need to hear any of this from you! I've got things to do today" and he left. Pretty crazy I know but that's what went down Tuesday. So after that we called the Zone Leaders who told us to call President and once we explained it to him he just told us, "Elders pack your stuff". And that's exactly what we did. We packed everything and smashed all we could in the Toyota Corolla before having to call Steven, our Branch Mission Leader, to come help fit some boxes of supplies and our bikes in his car. We had to then drive to Rochester to meet with President Howell because lucky enough for us he was there that day doing a training for the district leaders. We both had to be interviewed and he was going to have us live with a couple other Elders in Rochester but Steven volunteered their basement. It's kinda funny and crazy at the same time, but don't worry we've been staying in the basement of our Branch Mission Leaders parents home in Byron. The city right next to the Kasson and it's been just fine. The Josephsons have been great to stay with and have been really hospitable to us to let us come in at the last minute. It's kinda funny that for 2 years I'm somewhat living out of suitcases and this week I literally have been. I haven't gotten to unpack much because they don't have room and we didn't know how long we'd be there for sure. The Hida bed (or however you spell it) that Elder Russell's been sleeping on and my air mattress I sleep on take up most of the room. I'm sending some pictures hopefully if there's time at the end of this so you can see it. If not I'll send them next week. So I thought I should share this nice growing experience I've had this week with you all and let you hopefully get a laugh out of it like I have. Along with this though is a disclaimer that I might not be writing people back for awhile because they've been holding all our mail at the mission home since Tuesday. I was able to go by the house and get the letter from Dad talking about his new job and iPhone, but that's it. I look forward to getting your letters sometime hopefully this week when we move in. It's going to be the best mail day of the mission so far when they have to send it all and I get a boat full of it. I'm pretty excited about that! haha
Well that's about it and all I have to talk about this week We have heard everyone talking about that earthquake and tsunami so we have been praying alot for those people. It looks like I don't have time to attach the pictures this week, so hopefully I can next week with even more pictures of our 3rd apartment that we might have by then. haha I love you all and miss you so much!! Thank you for the support and prayers! Sorry I can't write each of you individually again. I guess you'll all just have to deal with hand written letters from me this week! :)
Love, Alex
So there were alot of you that asked about the whole new apartment situation and I figured it would be best to start with that. Good news is that yes we moved out of Larry's. Bad news is that we don't actually have an apartment. Larry kinda kicked us out last Tuesday, so technically I have been "homeless" the past week. haha The story is that just as I told all of you we'd been advised by the mission president to look for possible apartments in the area fro a couple weeks. Elder Russell would always say that he wanted to tell Larry because he felt like we were going behind his back. So Tuesday morning 5 minutes into our Personal study Larry came in our room and said that we needed to get ahold of President Howell because there was a "situation". His step son, Greg, who lives in the house too was going to be having his 2 kids, a girl that's 14 and a boy who's 17, move in because there have been several problems at their Mom's. So Larry said we need to ask President Howell to be out by the end of the month. Well Elder Russell saw this chance and before thinking about how to present it or filtering responses in his head he tells him, "actually that's already in the process for the last couple weeks because the situation just doesn't work here". Right as the words came out I was just thinking,"No! Bring it back' and since it had already been said and couldn't I tried desperately to think of a way to recover anything I could with the conversation. By that point it was already too late. The switch within Larry had been flipped and it was something I saw happen right before me on his face. At that point he started yelling, "Oh well that's funny that the situation just doesn't work for you two! Everyone else has seemed to love it here! Nobody else ever had any problems here. You're the only ones there's been any problems or conflicts with, and you know what you've never really meshed or fit in here anyway! We try to make accommodations because you live away from home, but apparently neither one of you has had that situation before! (I'm not even entirely sure what he meant by that statement either) So maybe the problem is with you two and you need to ask yourselves what's wrong with you!" and he just stormed out. I was in shock. Just left in a daze like what the heck just happened. I tried to follow him into the front room and explain, "Brother Smith it's not that we haven't appreciated all you've done or anything like that. We've enjoyed living here. They just move missionaries. There not meant to be in one place for a long time". But as I'm trying to explain he just screams, "I don't need to hear any of this from you! I've got things to do today" and he left. Pretty crazy I know but that's what went down Tuesday. So after that we called the Zone Leaders who told us to call President and once we explained it to him he just told us, "Elders pack your stuff". And that's exactly what we did. We packed everything and smashed all we could in the Toyota Corolla before having to call Steven, our Branch Mission Leader, to come help fit some boxes of supplies and our bikes in his car. We had to then drive to Rochester to meet with President Howell because lucky enough for us he was there that day doing a training for the district leaders. We both had to be interviewed and he was going to have us live with a couple other Elders in Rochester but Steven volunteered their basement. It's kinda funny and crazy at the same time, but don't worry we've been staying in the basement of our Branch Mission Leaders parents home in Byron. The city right next to the Kasson and it's been just fine. The Josephsons have been great to stay with and have been really hospitable to us to let us come in at the last minute. It's kinda funny that for 2 years I'm somewhat living out of suitcases and this week I literally have been. I haven't gotten to unpack much because they don't have room and we didn't know how long we'd be there for sure. The Hida bed (or however you spell it) that Elder Russell's been sleeping on and my air mattress I sleep on take up most of the room. I'm sending some pictures hopefully if there's time at the end of this so you can see it. If not I'll send them next week. So I thought I should share this nice growing experience I've had this week with you all and let you hopefully get a laugh out of it like I have. Along with this though is a disclaimer that I might not be writing people back for awhile because they've been holding all our mail at the mission home since Tuesday. I was able to go by the house and get the letter from Dad talking about his new job and iPhone, but that's it. I look forward to getting your letters sometime hopefully this week when we move in. It's going to be the best mail day of the mission so far when they have to send it all and I get a boat full of it. I'm pretty excited about that! haha
Well that's about it and all I have to talk about this week We have heard everyone talking about that earthquake and tsunami so we have been praying alot for those people. It looks like I don't have time to attach the pictures this week, so hopefully I can next week with even more pictures of our 3rd apartment that we might have by then. haha I love you all and miss you so much!! Thank you for the support and prayers! Sorry I can't write each of you individually again. I guess you'll all just have to deal with hand written letters from me this week! :)
Love, Alex
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