First week in Kentucky

First pic is of Tow mater! Saw this on our way to the church on wednesday night.

Second one is of when we had to drive to Louisville early in the morning and it was super awesome to see all of the green rolling hills and horses and farms everywhere! Tons of horses down here.

So the last Elder that was here was super super small and he left a bunch of his clothes so Elder Burns and I decided to try them on see how they looked. This was the result of that!

Howdy ya'll!

Wow, this is a whole different part of the earth. I tell you what, you haven't seen true back country folks until you have been to London kentucky! I absolutly love it here! My new companion is Elder Burns. He's from spanish fork Utah and he's been out 17 months I think. It was a 2 1/2 hour drive from Louisville to London and man is it beautiful here in Kentucky! I like it so much better than Indiana!

I'll just start off by saying that our ward mission leader is amazing! His name is Brother. Johnson and he is a 3 year convert. He is one of THE nicest people I have ever met in my whole life! Hes probably late 60's and is super super happy and is always excited about church stuff and missionary work!

Its actually a ward here, not a branch, but its a small ward. I think about 120 active members. Only 80 or so were at church. But its made out of a lot of recent converts. These are some of the most humble and nice people I have ever met. They had me give the opening prayer is sacrament and then they asked me to speak in sacrament in a few weeks. I haven't said a prayer or given a talk in sacrament meeting in any of my other areas ever. So that felt nice to be recognized as a member of the ward and not just a missioanry. The people here just love the missionaries. I can just tell. I want to say we have been fed or brough food about 7 or 8 times already and I havent even been here a week yet!! I've been taken out to Cracker Barrel twice already haha thats some good ole country food there. And we went and did service for a lady in our ward and afterwards she made a huge country dinner of corn bread with bacons bits in it, fried spuds, baked beans, and pork chops!! haha sooooo good! I'll have to tell you next week more of a story about when we did serivce for her, he 40 year old son is a collector of trains. And he has a big set up in his basement. Ill send pics next week of that.

Anyways, back to the ward, the church is in a different town than we live in. Its located outside of Corbin, that where the sisters area is. Man it is hard to find haha not very big and hidden by houses and trees! But its a nice building.

I've done more driving this past week tahn I have in my whole mission haha. I had to drive back to Louisville on friday for a leadership meeting that lastest all day. It was probably one of the most inspirational meetings I have ever been in. Super great. All about being good leaders and how we can do better and set smart goals. The trainings were given by President Brough and the Assistants. Then last night was the monthly fireside, which is held in Lexington, so that was another hour drive there and then on the way home there were a bunch of wrecks and contruction so it took 2 hours to get home. Last night was a late night for us. And then today a recent convert drove us and the Mckee Elders to Richmond to go bowling for Elder Koeneg's birthday. So that was a 45 minute drive or so. We went to buffalo wild wings and then went bowling. I have never bowled so good in my whole life. Bowled a 170 and a 177. I got 4 strikes in a row one of the games haha it was a miracle.

Sheesh this is a lot of stuff and there is a lot more that has happened! I wish i could just call and tell you all about it!

Oh, our apartment is super nice. WE HAVE A WASHER AND DRYER NOW! I am so grateful for that. Makes life real nice. And we have a new Ford Fusion, its super sweet. I feel like Im driving a space ship. It makes that long drives really nice. For district meeting every thursday we have to drive 30 miles to Mckee for district meeting. The Mckee branch is sooo small. Their building is in a super small strip mall and it has like 4 rooms haha. Things down here are just so awesome! It might be a little harder to help people live the word of wisdom since EVERYONE smokes and Dip's tobacco but that wont be too bad! Nothing too bad for the Gosple to fix!

I love you all so so much and hope you have a wonderful week! Pray for us to find lots of people to Find and Baptize! We're gonna be workin hard this week!