Okay okay okay, so It's time for a big letter.  Wow, it was a REALLY long week.  Yet, it feels like I just got here so that's great.  I guess i'll start from the beginning which was last Wednesday, I'll kinda skip out on MTC stuff, I'll tell you about that later one day.

So Wednesday we had to get up at 1 AM for our flight, showered, finished up packing, and then hauled my 100 pounds worth of luggage down 4 floors.  We ate breakfast in the dark abandoned cafeteria, we had some cereal, it was a nice little snack.  Eventually we drove to the Salt Lake City airport, on the way we saw the fire in Highland?  I'm not sure where it was but it was a fire and it looked pretty dang awesome at 4AM in the dark.  We got to the airport and then we went to the McDonalds there.  We heard music playing and ate McDonalds, it was like heaven since we hadn't had anything besides MTC food for the past 3 weeks.  The music was also nice, I hadn't heard something besides a hymn forever.

Skipping ahead a bit we flew on the airplane.  We had to fly to Denver and then to Missouri.  To Denver, I had a Sister Missionary sitting next to me, and then to Missouri I was completely alone so yeah.  I had no chances to talk to anyone about the gospel but it was all right, I listened to the people across the aile talk and it was pretty interesting.  As soon as we got out of the plane suddenly a blast of heat hit me.  It was intense.  The humidity was crazy, Missouri is definitely not Utah.

For the rest of the day we got to go to visitor centers.  First we went to the new Kansas City Temple, and then we went to Liberty Jail and the Independence Visitor center.  The air conditioning in there was amaaaaazing.  It was a cool experience and I could definitely feel something different about both of them.  We went back to the mission presidents house, did some orientation and then it was time for bed.

Woke up the next morning and it was time for transfers.  I waited around a bit until my companion/trainer finally came.  His name is Elder Meisenheimer, he's pretty cool.  He looks a little like Kira's ex boyfriend Abe, but more...mexican?  Anyways.  I've been assigned to a little town in Kansas for the next three months, it's called Gardner.  On our first day I unpacked and then we went to go to do some appointments.  We don't usually call ahead to anyone, we just show up on investigators doors and they usually let us in.  In Gardner we aren't really focusing too much on new investigators, most of the things we focus on are inactive members. 

For dinner we went to a family called the Jensens, they're really cool, they have 3 boys and a girl.  It was nice going into an actually nice place for once.  (Our apartment is like, terrible.)  They brought an investigator for us to dinner, her name is Liza, she's taking care of her friend's little girl named Denver, Denver is abused and her mother is in jail but Liza can't adopt her and really wants to.  Liza has already taken lessons from the Missionaries before, her mother was so anti that she get baptized.  Fortunately she doesn't care about her mother now so I think Liza is ready to commit to baptism soon.

Sorry my brain is a little scattered, so many things happened, but thankfully I've got it down in my journal.  I met a lot of part-member and less active families, so we've been seeing how they are and leaving them with a little message.  One family we visited was the Cocrofts, he's less inactive and he's really cool.  He's really funny and he kinda looks like the one guy on Jurassic Park that did Law and Order for a little bit.  His brother works at American Crew so he ended up giving me a bunch of hair products to help me with the ladies, it was hilarious.  He has a daughter named Prestley, she was afraid of me.  :(  She warmed up a little, but she still doesn't like me.  Hopefully a few more visits though and she will! 

Yesterday (Sunday) we had dinner at the Livellas, it was really nice,  He works as a national salesman for Sennheiser sound or something like that.  He showed us his studio downstairs and said we were free to come over whenever.  He was grown up as a mormon, but fell away from the Church and has been trying to come back since 04.  Since then he baptized his two daughters, but his wife is still not a member and he tries not to bug her about it.  Secretly she wants to take the lessons from us, but she doesnt want anyone in her family to know about it because she wants it to be a surprise and have no pressure from anyone.  Its going to be awesome because we're going to start teaching her at someone else's house and hopefully she'll get baptized which would just be awesome for Brother Livella.

Kansas is HOT.  For the past few days theres been record highs, the temperature was about 103-108 for the past 4 days.  And I dont have a bike yet so we had to walk everywhere.  I've been walking about 5 miles a day in this small town.  I sweat like crazy.  I've lost 10 pounds already despite the amount of food members are feeding me.  We get to drive a car this next week thankfully though.  (Temps are cooling way down though, week I had to walk was terrible, go figure.)  Agh what else is there for me to tell you guys..

Anyways things are going pretty good so far.  I'm having so much fun and meeting so many people.  It's amazing how much my prayers are being answered.  I'm having so many extremely powerful and personal spiritual experiences.  I know that the gospel is true and I hope I can convey that to other people now.  Keep me in your prayers everyone and hopefully I'll be safe!  By the way I look hideous on my blog, what is up with that.  :(

Don't be shy, send me some letters, I'm getting plenty of email but I would love some letters cause I can reply to them better.  :(

PS.  I'll send some pictures home soon maybe.  You should send me some family photos though Mom, I'd love to have those around. Allright I'll stop writing now, sorry this email is a mess but its so hard to think right now!  D: