October 15, 2007

**Brady was transferred, but he didn't send his address. Coming soon? 

Here I am, writing you from Houston, Texas (county)Missouri. My new companion 

is Elder Hause, from Wisconsin.

We actually cover two areas. Apparently the other one we cover was 

just opened two weeks ago. We have a 17-year-old with a baptismal 

date for November 18, right after her 18th birthday (apparently her 

parents are not supporting her).

This place makes me thing of Carbon and Emery counties, just with 

trees. I've decided I like cities more. Luckily we have a Wal-mart 

Supercenter. It's not too far down the road. The chapel is not too 

far in the other direction. The Texas County Library is tiny. I 

wonder if Mom's school library is bigger. Apparently pretty much 

everywhere has been tracted already in Texas county, from what I hear.

It's quite strange going from a city of over 60,000 to a tiny 

village. It's even more strange, and a bit of a downer, going from 

essentially 6 elders in one apartment to just two. I've realized I 

really am a rather social creature, but I need my space. This change 

has taught me a lot about myself in the past three days alone.

We were able to move Ashley Thompson out to her mother's house. It 

was a bit of an adventure. It was way out there too. I'm just glad 

that Harley is now out of the picture. But Ashley is doing really 

well. She just needs to quit smoking and she'll be able to be 

baptized. I think she'll be able to do it.

Anyway, I don't know what more to say, other than 3 more days and I 

turn one, and a week after that, I have only 1 year left.

Better get going. We still have to do our laundry. Apparently we do 

it at a member's house. See you next week!