9-4-08 Mon.

"The (white) Chevy Silverado is a blast. lol. But unfortunately it has no pick-up so as you go up a hill it goes from 65 mph to like 50 mph until you hit the top. But it's still really good for all the dirt roads here. And like 90% out here are dirt roads."

Regarding his companion, Elder Besler Jake writes. "He's big like me as you can see from the photo of me and him. He is comfortable to work with. Fairly easy going guy. He is a sports guy. He is understanding and wise. He supports The U of U and that's where he went (to college before his mission)."

"There are two other sets of missionaries besides us, 2 Elders and 2 sisters. The Elders & one sister are from Idaho, the other sister is from UT.

"We have Cortez 2nd and Mancos Wards. We go to the Cortez 2nd Ward's meetings one week and Mancos Ward's the next. 2nd is everything west of Highway 666. (The town of) Towaoc and (the Ute Indian Reservation)is included(but there are only)
3 Indian families or so.

"Mancos is a town to the East of Cortez, so we travel a lot. Mancos Ward only has about the same number of people attending as the Hudson Branch.

"We have 2 investigators and about 3 potential investigators, which Elder Besler says is really good for this area.

"Wow, have I met any interesting people? lol Mancos is like all 'interesting' people. Crazy stuff. Like a few days ago we were tracting and someone told us to go to he**. But for the most part, people are nice and listen but they all believe in something else so they politely say no thank you and shut the door."

"We have had a dinner (appointment) just about every night. We have only had to eat about twice in our apartment so far. The food is about the same... not 2 much weird stuff yet, but I heard Mutton Stew is coming up pretty soon.

"Yeah right, healthy stuff ha, fat chance. I've gained 13 pounds. Yeah, figure that out. 10 in the MTC and 3 out here.

"We extended one baptism commitment but he declined saying that he wants to study it more. We are also getting a lady pretty close but she has other ideas rolling around in her head. "

"I do love getting snail mail!"