Mom,
Thanks for thinking about me. My area is different. In the city there're these "houses" that are very strange. They are super small and they are everywhere. They are about three stories tall and every time I walk into one I smell cigarette smoke. People here don't really even acknowledge us. All the people we try to contact don't want to listen to us.

I actually don't live in an apartment. I live in a small house. It's one of the three in the whole mission. This is good and bad. Now I have more room, but I have to clean all that room. We also have to mow our lawn. Elder Lewis says that it's easier in the winter cause the grass is underneath a bunch of snow. The house is really old too.

The ward is super small and full of odd people. They are a little different from back home in Gilbert. We probably only had about 50 people come to church yesterday. Same with school and priesthood. Only 6 people were in my Sunday school class and there are only about 5 young men in the whole ward. And in priesthood there is about 15 or so men. But everybody is very kind. People always give us
food. We did some service the other day and they repaid us by feeding us and also giving us bags of food. It was so nice cause they are older people and their health is not very good and they were just really nice to us.

My companion is Elder Lewis. He's from Tucson Arizona. We
aren't that much alike. He was a hard gamer back home and doesn't play any sports. Usually he's pretty quiet and is on his IPad a lot. He is really good at being in lessons though, he knows his stuff. He's been it for almost a year and he's never trained before.

The teaching could be better. Like I said people don't really want to talk to us. But some people do. This past week we have been trying to find new investigators and also visiting less active families and also members for dinner appointments.

Haven't gotten really anything great to eat yet. I've eaten a lot of pizza the last couple weeks of days. Hopefully I can get an awesome meal soon. Will send pics later when I'm at a computer.