My companion is a Texas boy through and through!

So you guys all know that I got transferred. I am now serving in Draper. In the Draper Crescent View and the Draper Eastridge Stakes. My new companion is Elder Davies from Texas. He is a Texas boy through and through! It sure is true that Texans have a lot of pride!

But anyways things so far are going really well. I am on a bike now and I do believe that we are in the hilliest area of the mission. I am starting to get back in shape really fast though so that is good! Because I was really starting to gain some weight and get a gutt.

So yeah over here on the East side of the valley it is a lot different then the West side. The people are a lot harder to work with! We only have 3 people on date for baptism right now, where as my last area had 11 people on date for baptism when I left. But that is also partly because of the missionary's that were in this area last transfer. I just need to kick this area into shape now and get it rolling and hopefully by the end of this transfer we can also have 11 people on date here.

But things are going really good. I am so glad that I am serving my mission. I am glad that I am serving my mission even though I am so close to home, and even though I can see my home neighborhood from some part's of my new area. But I know it is what I am supposed to be doing at this time of my life.

So the 4th of July was pretty much horrible! First of all we got invited to a 4th of July morning ward breakfast. So I was like alright and I was expecting it to be like what ours is every year. So we woke up early and rode our bike's down to it and were there by 7 o'clock when it started and the following is what they gave the children to eat; all the fruit they wanted and TWO pancakes. Now, the following is what they gave the missionaries to eat; all the fruit we could eat, and ONE pancake. They would only give us one lowsy pancake! But whatever I guess we are just spoiled in Bluffdale over in our neighborhood. Then the lockdown was alright I guess. The movie selection could have been better for one of the movies. We got to watch Cool Runnings (one of my all-time favorite movies) and Madagascar 2 (LAME) Then we had to go home without seeing any fireworks.

But all in all we had a really good week. I love all of you and hope to get LETTERS from all of you next week!
Love,
Elder Anderson