Well Hello everyone!! This last week has been quite exciting. It involves a new area, new companion, a hurricane, and a skateboard without wheels.
Well, it was sad to leave my old area, but I am excited to work hard here in South Baton Rouge. One cool thing about this area is that we have a car! Its kind of cool, but a little different. In my last area we could have done all kinds of work with a car, but being that this area is pretty big, its pretty necessary and we drive around quite a bit. It is really nice to not have to ride your bike to get groceries! My new companions name is Elder Terry. He is a pretty cool guy from Provo, and we like a lot of the same things. We live in an apartment with the english Elders, Elder Taylor and Elder Freestone, from Utah and Oregon, respectively, and they are both super cool as well, and its alot of fun. Elder Terry is into drawing and painting, and he has a bunch of paint supplies and has made some really cool paintings.
So this last weekend there was a tropical storm out in the gulf, which was reported to be moving inland, so president decided to go on the safe side and New orleans and surrounding areas were evacuated. Several missionaries stayed at the mission home, and at apartments of missionaries in Baton Rouge. So we hosted some "refugees" and had 8 of us in our cozy apartment. I kept everyone well fed with lots of home-cooked food, which they were grateful for. After a little while, president said our area as well was on storm lockdown, and that we were supposed to stay in. We were a little confused, because there was some rain, but not a whole lot of wind. But, we went in, and hung out with the other Elders, made some porkchops on the BBQ, I painted a masterpiece with Elder Terrys paints, we watched the testaments and many other church videos, and we had a good time. There was a couple breaks where we went out and worked a bit, to try to beat the cabin fever, and ended up still having a relatively productive weekend. Overall a pretty good weekend. I am a little bummed that 2 days after I leave New Orleans theres a storm and they get evacuated! Come on! Though the city apparently didnt take much damage, just plenty of flooding.
This last p-day we went to a skate shop, of which the owner is actually mormon, and he bought himself an early birthday present: a skateboard with rubber trucks. Its the deck of a normal skateboard, but has 2 pieces of heavy rubber instead of weels, shaped so that it feels like you really are on a skateboard, to practice doing tricks and stuff. We all messed around on it for a good bit yesterday, and my legs are actually a bit sore from doing it. I stll cant to anything cool, but, this will be an exciting new twist on our morning excercise!
We have some pretty cool investigators in this area as well. Theres a guy named Cruz, who is a super cool, really nice and really funny guy with lots of tatoos. We have found 2 neat families since I've been here, and this area definitely has alot of potential to have some miracles happen.
I love hearing from all of you, family, I was just thinking about how I have family on 3 continents right now, and yet we are connected both by simple e-mails and of course, by the loving ties of the gospel and our heavenly fathers love. Thats about it for the week, hope everyone is doing well. Write me letters!!
-Cam
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