Hey Everybody! LONE PINE IS THE BEST! A picture is worth a thousand words, right? (Insert picture of scortching desert here. Should be 0016. Delete this) This is %99.6 of my area. Completely uninhabited, scortching desert. The Jack Rabbit population far exceeds that of humans. Sometimes when we walk up to our truck 3 or 4 Jack rabbits come out from underneath the tires and go running in every direction. (0021) This is my district minus me. We're at district meeting. Can you believe that? (0025) This is me and my new comp. The guy is a STUD. (0029) This is me next to my truck. And wearing a cowboy hat. This is what happens when you come up to an area like this. (0040) This is my first Pday. We went and hiked up the Onion Valley. That's not a misnomer, wild onions grow everywhere. They are pretty good. So yeah, I'm turning into a cowboy. Nah, just kidding. But it is really really cool up here. I pretty much love it. The work is hopping. I'm in an English branch, but we have plenty of Spanish work up here. There were some Spanish sisters who would come down here and work, and we're picking up their old investigators like nothing. This is the busiest I have been. By far. I hope I get to stay up here for a good long time. It's a small town, but the missionaries have a good reputation around here. The Branch seems to love us. It often gets over 100 around here, but this little patch of the desert is like paradise for me. The place is a haven for tourists, so the stores around here are extortionately expensive. But I can deal with that. I used to spend $15 or so dollars a week in Burbank, I think I'll make it up here. Anyway, I feel really happy and sunburned. I wish you all the best! Elder Call Sorry, guys i can't get these images onto the blog. You are just going to have to take joe's word on the discriptions.

Lone Pine

Hey Everyone! I've finally gotten transferred. I am now in the middle of the scortching desert, in a small town called Lone Pine. The place is exactly like Chihuahua. The ride up took like 5 hours. I have a truck now! I feel like a boss. My comp and I are the first spanish elders to come around to this area so I'm excited to go to an area that's pretty untouched. I'm now serving in an English branch of about 30 active people. My new comp is a really cool guy named Elder Maxwell, who is from Utah. We had a really good week last week. We ran into this lady that lost a daughter about a year ago, and has very recently regained her faith in god. We had a really intense lesson with her. But now they are shutting down my old area, and the sister missionaries are taking it over. They are going to have a lot of work to do with those two areas together. I'm kinda jealous. I'm still doing well, and I am excited for the change. Change is good. I sincerely wish you all the best! Don't do anything I wouldn't do, Elder Call

Tough Week

Hey Everyone! I apologize for not putting anything on here last week, the library was closed. We had a pretty tough week. I'm not going to give you exact numbers, but rougly 15/17ths of our appointments cancelled in the last 4 days, and my comp ran over a nail. Believe it or not, today while we were shopping he got offered a job as a one time actor playing a super hero. Some people would give their left arm and every ounce of honor they have for that chance, but he turned it down. He's doing the work of the lord, which is way better than fame and easy money. The Lord is probably humbling our district for our pride or something, because the rest of the missionaries have been having tough luck too. But I figured that by the end of all this I'll be able to say that I can do anything! Of course, I said that after I wrestled 5 years, worked 5 months at Boulder Creek, and spent 6 weeks in the MTC. Dang, maybe the Lord is punishing me for my pride, ha ha. But those things were successively harder. But they were all fun in their own way too. We had a zone wide soccer/ultimate frisbee match today, and guess who won? Yeah, my district. Because we are the best. Dang, here we are with the pride thing again. My pride cycle lasts like 4 minutes. But anyway, even though right now sucks, I'm sure everything will be worth it in the end.