Week Four

 Last Sunday at the MTC was fast Sunday and it was not bad at all I did not get sick like usual, I felt hungry but not too bad, I guess if you pray with real intent it helps. The day getting to LA was probably the longest day of my life I had to wake up at 3 AM get to the bus that took us straight to the airport, once there we found out that our plane was two hours late which meant we were going to miss our flight from Atlanta GA to Baton Rouge LA but we all made it with our stuff at some point in the night. I arrived at 7 PM and some arrived at 12 Pm the next day.

OK. So I am here in LA, I am serving in the Marksville area, I got a new companion his name is elder D. he is form Tremonton UTAH, he has been out here for almost a year now. its pretty cool because he had 4 older brothers and one of them served in Bellingham WA a while ago.  It is super flat here not a mountain in site, which is sad but o-well, so its been 7 days so far and its rained every one of those day and one of those days it stared raining at 12am and did stop raining until after 3 or so in the afternoon. When it rains here it really rains. There were a ton of roads closed because there was 2 feet of water on them and every where you look every yard and ever field you can see looks like a lake. It is kinda funny. So the night we had all of the rain we also had a lighting/thunder storm and holy cow that was by far the loudest thunder/anything I had ever heard in my entire life and it went on for hours, but it was super cool. 

Here in Marksville we have a small branch of around 30 people who attend regularly.  It is pretty cool, there are some members that are super awesome and they feed us at lest twice a week. We have a senior couple that is from Utah but that love the branch/ people so much that they bought  a house down here and when they get off there mission they are moving here, which I mean is dedication. It's funny when we were driving (o-ya we have a car) back to the apartment elder D. told me that we were speaking Sunday he said that we are the program,  so ya I had two days notice to speak on priesthood I felt like I did OK, I still speak to fast especially for the people down here,  but o-well. It was fun-ish. It was fun to finally get out here. We knock on about 5 doors a day and try to teach 3-4 lessons a day.  Tell ever one at church that I miss them and tell them that our ward is huge because it kinda is.

Other then that I am loving life. 

Love, Elder Gordon