Hello everyone!! How's it going?
When I arrived at the Tucson airport, I saw U of A basketball star Alonzo Trier! He's really tall. Got to say hi and good luck to him.
We left 30 minutes late, but got there when we were supposed to. I didn't see President Hillier or anyone with a tag. Lucky for me, a family friend was on the same flight with me. So I was able to get in contact with the mission office, and President Hillier found me with my new companion!
My comp's name is Elder LeTerneau and is from Littleton Colorado. He was originally serving in Fukuoka Japan but the bikes tore up his knees, so now he has to be in a car for the rest of his mission. He has 8 months in the mission so far, and is 19 years old. We actually have a lot in common. We both love to sing, play sports, the Lord of the Rings, and the High Kings (Irish music group). He is also 6'3".
We are serving in the sixth ward in the Murray Stake and the Dai Ichi ward (Japanese ward) in the Granite Stake for now. The wards are incredible, and the members are great. I do have a tablet, and it is very useful. I will probably be transferred to a Spanish area next transfer. I am in a car. There are 14 Spanish areas in the mission and for the most part they're big, so cars.
Salt lake city is incredibly diverse when it comes to people you meet. Just from tracting this week, we have met people from Iraq, Arabia, Korea, Japan, Mexico, El Salvador, Burundi, and China.
We have two awesome investigators in the 6th Ward, J and A. J is a golden investigator. He even works for a company contracted by the church. A is a great guy, and he's also a conspiracy theorist. In the Dai Ichi ward we have an investigator named S, I only met him 3 times and he seems cool. He doesn't speak very good English, so most of the talking will be from Elder LeTerneau in the lessons. Japanese food is weird. Especially nato, look it up. I'm trying to get a Japanese name tag. I'm gonna learn how to introduce myself in Japanese.
The best day of the week was Saturday, though it was the coldest day with a high of 25 degrees. We started off the day with service. We helped an awesome couple from a Spanish branch move out. The husband and his parents took us to breakfast to Village Inn. Then, almost directly after that, we helped the Japanese ward make an amazingly good "desert" called mochi for 4 hours in the cold snow. Mochi is pounded and melted rice, formed into kind of like a chewy cookie. You can put a lot of stuff in it. The two most common is jelly in the center or sugar being pounded and melted with it. We did the second one. Some of the members were there from 6 in the morning to the end at 3 in the afternoon! We were just there from 11 to the end.
We both gave talks Sunday in each ward. It was very interesting in the Japanese ward. They spoke both English and Japanese.
It has been amazing so far and I swear I'm doing my best to stay warm!
Joshua 24:15
-Élder Wilkes
Frozen rain on the windshield.
Cool pictures of one of the mountains.
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