Letter from 7-9-13

Well, 4th of July ended up being pretty okay here. There was a ward breakfast we
went to and a couple of our investigators came to it, so that was great! Then we
had district meeting, then this non-member guy who isn't in our area, but
apparently he really likes the Sisters at the trail center, invited a bunch of
us over for a steak dinner. It was almost as good as your steak, Dad! :) Then
after that, we were told that we had to lock ourselves inside for the night and
do weekly planning, which was kinda lame. But we did our best to make it fun -
got in our pj's, popped popcorn, etc. Holy crow, it's a good thing I got those
ear plugs, because people here in Braksa go all out for the 4th! People spend
thousands of dollars on huge fireworks! I stepped outside for a minute and it
sounded like I was smack in the middle of the revelutionary war, it was so loud
and it never stopped!

Aw, Thomas' baby blessing! Is it a good thing or a bad thing that I completely
forgot that I would miss that? That's so awesome! From the sound of the blessing
you gave him, Dad, it seems like he's going to be some serious missionary
material! Just saying. ^_^

Yup, I got your letter! Btw, thank you so much for all the info on Thomas! Still
working on reading all of it, but I've already used him a bit in my tours!
That's on thing, here at the trail center, everyone's always asking about your
family history. I should probably pull out that 4 generation pedegree chart you
made for me, but I keep forgetting. *blush*

And btw, it's a good thing I didn't give you my address 'cause I've moved!
Again! We were living with members, but now they're moving, so they kicked us
out, so we're living in an apartment until they can find another member to take
us in. It's actually, for now, faster when you send it to the mission office
'cause then they just bring it to the trail center mail room and we just pick it
up when we're on shift. In Holdrege, it seemed to take forever for mail to get
anywhere!

So fun story time! First off, to give you a quick description of our temporary
apartment in one sentence: Elders used to live here. 'Nuff said. So the other
day I killed a giant spider in a moldy bathtub by pouring straight alchohol on
it. I immediatley thought of Brother Harrop. :)

Then remember how I said they have wild rabbits all over the place here? Well,
one day while were tracting, I caught a baby bunny! It was
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
cute!!!!!!!!!! I let it go, but oooooh, it was so adorable!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHH! :D

Then they had a new thing arrive at the trail center yesterday; a first print
edition of the Book of Mormon! It turns out there's only 1800 of them, and most
of them are lost, so it's now worth millions and millions of dollars. And they
let me hold it! I've put pictures in the gallery. :D

And I will get pictures of the trail center to you! Because it's summer, it's
super busy, but when we have a slow time I'll snag some for you. :)