Dear Mom,

Wasn't your power bill supposed to drop when I left or something? Haha, why were they even comparing your electric bill usage with the neighbors. Sounds weird but anyways. I'm not even gonna ask about why you guys have been having...moustache parties, but it sounds like Clark had fun. Anyways I guess I have to answer your questions.

Teeth brushing, retainer, washing sheets, first of all never write me that again LOL. I can take care of myself don't worry Mom. The other questions are okay. The new apartment is cleaner than the old one yeah. It's also smaller unfortunately, we don't have room for much, it's only like two rooms. I like the kitchen in the new apartment though. I guess we're kinda supposed to clean up the old apartment but we haven't finished that up yet. We have to call the Housing Missionary to come and take care of everything with us. But we've raided all of the good stuff that's left in the house. Now there's just furniture really. There's a treadmill in there but we don't have room for it, so my old companion is going to come and take it over to Kansas City Missouri where he's serving.

Anyways my new companion is pretty cool. We've been getting along just fine, getting along good actually. We've been having a lot of fun. We get up early at 6:30 and then head down to the Church 12 miles away and work out. He's started me on a Navy Seal training program and it's been killing me.

Our area is really hectic now. I'm covering both Paola and Gardner wards now. Suddenly we have two dinner calendars, completely filled up. So now we have two dinners scheduled every night and it's just crazy. We've also been dealing with the old apartment, so we haven't even really had a lot of time to even visit people. We even have two phones now. Things we'll be easier this week though I'm sure.

Anyways let's see, let me tell you about the "J" family this week. They're a really cool family we had dinner with a couple of nights ago. They have one son that's on his mission in California. Brother "J" works at a boxing store, he gives the missionaries products with defects that they can't sell, but they're still basically brand new so we have all this cool stuff from them. The "J"'s are extremely good cooks. The other day they cooked us brotz which were really good. But the best part were the baked beans they cooked. Real barbeque really is the best. Speaking of which I went to Oaklahoma Joe's which is extremely good.

I guess I should probably describe Paola for you. Paola is super...well I guess I can't say small. But it's super spread out, so it's like a small town with not too many people in it. Theres dirt roads everywhere and so forth it's all right. Anyways things are going good with the new companionship. He's not at all what I expected. I'm safe and fine, and you need to stop worrying about me brushing my teeth Mom. Anyways take care at home everyone.

PS. Sorry I don't have my new address yet. I forgot to write it down before I came here and my companion doesn't have it memorized, but I'll get it to you by next week. Probably earlier cause we'll have to go to the Library again sometime this week.