6 September 2011

Hey yall, just keep sending that mail to the mission office address I gave you, they'll send it to me :) (you'd better be sending mail :P) got here yesterday. we woke up at 4am utah time to get to the airport, that was pretty awesome! they just piled us all up on a couple buses and we caravaned up to the airport. there were 19 of us missionaries on our flight, that was pretty cool! when we got of off of the plane in Las vegas, we met prez and sister black and the took us to their house for breakfast! then we went to the mission office for orientation. that was kinda awful! we were there from about 11-5 and the whole thing was watching safety videos and filling out forms. finally after all that we got our assignments and our companions. My new comp is Elder M. He's from British Columbia, been on his mission for a year, and has trained 3 other new missionaries. Elder B is also with us for this week before he heads off to England. Our area is the Tule Springs area and we're over 3 wards! from what I've heard, one of the wards really loves the missionaries and works with them a lot, and the other 2 don't really trust the elders too much. so we'll work on that. but everyone says that the members hook us up all the time. Someone will feed us dinner every night. Last night we ate with The E family, they are way cool and take care of the missionaries well. Our apartment is supposed to be a 4 man apartment but once B leaves at the end of the week, there will be only two of us there for the rest of the transfer. so we wave 2 bathrooms, 2 bedrooms, a kitchen and a big living room for just 2 of us :) and we have a mini van lol. we have a baptism on Wednesday for V. i haven't met her yet but she sounds way cool, shes 13 and is joining without her parents, but they are supporting her and Elder M says she has a great testimony. the goal for the mission is to get 1000 baptisms by the end of the year, right now we're at 580, so we've got some to do! anyways, so far so good! haven't had the chance to do too much work yet, but I'm sure by next week I'll have some fun stories about my failed attempts at teaching. Hope everyone is well! I was glad to hear that both BYU and OSU won their games on Saturday, that's always good! I'll get you some pictures soon. miss you all! love elder chambers :)