I received the package on Friday and it made me feel bad because I was so whiny in my last e-mail. *still wants a pull-up bar though and then I promise I'll shut up about wanting stuff forever* But yes thank you very much. Last e-mail you told me you found something called "Manga Magic" not "Manga Mania." I know what that is, and yeah I'm glad you didn't send it to me because I didn't ask for it for a reason. (I kind of don't like that book I bought it because I thought it would help but it didn't help me at all.)
Thank you so much for the camera, and yes it works beautifully. It's the nicest camera I've ever had the privilege of messing around with. So yes you made a good decision and it works. I don't think I'll be able to fit all the pictures into one e-mail. (I've been taking a lot of pictures.)
Yes my moving strategy so far has been to stuff everything into a grocery bag (I keep every grocery bag) and haul it over to my next apartment as quickly as possible, and then once all the bags are in my apartment I spend quite some time trying to figure out what's what. But I did pretty good this time. (Don't worry I don't stuff my clothes into grocery bags, those I carry over carefully with their hangers.) I moved into a different building right next to my old one. It's a two man apartment on the basement, and Elder Call is my companion.
I'm sorry Becca damaged the car I'm sure that wasn't a nice experience for her. I learned how to park by just confidently (yet cautiously) pulling into whatever spot was needed. Take her to empty parking lots and just have her pull into spots and maybe put up some cones or something to represent other cars. I don't know. But yeah battle scar family vans are always fun to have I guess.
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| Becca hit a car while trying to park at Walmart. It caused quite a scene. On the positive side, the door opens and closes better now than it did when we got it fixed after Andrew's accident several years ago. |
This was a pretty big week.
SATURDAY: So I got out of bed just in time to get the announcement that the library is going to be closed all day due to unforeseen circumstances. Apparently security discovered an "object" overnight on Friday that caused them great concern. I guess that warranted them to close down the library all day. Details are sketchy(by the way, an artist was found dead in his apartment. Details are sketchy) , so we don't really know what happened exactly. All we know was that security closed down the entire library all Saturday. Since most elders have their p day on Saturday they had to go to the JSMB to do their e-mails. But since it wasn't my p day I just had nothing to do all day. (Except draw since a certain package arrived. Thank you again.)
During the evening some Elders including Elder Hurd wanted to go to D.I. and they invited me. I didn't really want to go to D.I. but I was really craving Subway for some reason that night, so I agreed to go and they said they'd stop at City Creek on the way back for me. To get to D.I. we have to get on trax and then we get off at the courthouse because that's freefare. Then we walk to D.I. from there and it's about a 10 minute walk.
Anyway to make a long story short apparently June 1st is Gay Pride Day. And there was a big "Pride" festival going on right where we were walking. So yeah that was a fun crowd to walk through. We got lots of taunts and boos as we were walking through but most people just ignored us, thankfully. But it was still kind of traumatizing.
The good news is that I still got my sandwich:
WEDNESDAY: That was the day I moved, and it went well. I didn't lose any stuff and I had plenty of boxes. That's not why this day was exciting though. Our new Mission President was getting announced this day. And because President Peterson has connections, he was able to make it a huge devotional with the apostles Elder Scott and Elder Bednar to speak briefly...Yeah pretty big.
Anyway our new President effective starting July 1st is going to be H. Ross Workman, an ex general authority just like President Peterson. In fact, I looked it up and he gave a talk right after President Peterson during the October 2001 General Conference.
See look:
Current Mission President: http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2001/10/our-actions-determine-our-character?lang=eng
New Mission President: http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2001/10/beware-of-murmuring?lang=eng
Elder Bednar spoke briefly and told us that missionary work is about turning peoples hearts so that they can do ordinances, therefore we shouldn't think that we're just "Family History Missionaries" but that we are actual missionaries, which was pretty comforting to hear. Elder Scott pretty much said the same thing to, although it was pretty hysterical when he said "Hey do you guys want to know something about Elder Bednar that you don't know?" We all though he was going to reveal some embarrassing secret or something but he just ended up saying, "Well, did you know that Elder Bednar's shoes are so shiny, that you can comb your hair by looking at them?" He also gave his coat hanger joke again which never gets old. No one got to shake their hands because as soon as it was over security escorted them out pretty quickly. Oh and this was all done in the chapel at the JSMB by the way.
So yes, we're getting a new Mission President, and he seems like a pretty cool guy. I don't know how much he'll change this mission but I'll let you know if does anything drastic.
Elder Call is a very nice guy with a good heart, he works at the vault too and he'll be leaving at the end of July. He's from Gilbert, Arizona, and a temple is currently being built there which he's excited about. Here's a picture I took of him as he was walking home from working at the vault with Elder Scotto, notice the uniforms they get to wear:
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| Elder Call is on the right in case you forgot what Elder Scotto looks like. |
THURSDAY(TODAY): Umm, well nothing much happened but we did have a pretty funny experience at Walmart today. While we were waiting at the checkout line there was a couple and an infant child in the grocery cart behind us. The mother picked up a lighter on the display next to the magazines, light it, and then started waving it in front of the baby real close saying "Touch it! Come on, touch it!" We were looking at them with complete shock and when we turned around Elder Simpson said whispered, "And the Mother of the Year Award goes to..." And we think he said it to loud because it looked like the father heard us and he was giving us a real dirty look the rest of the time. Which scared us because based on his tattoos we're pretty sure he was a gangster.
Anyway, I have a lot of pictures and they won't fit so I'll send them in a different e-mail.
Love, Elder Larson
Pictures:
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| This is me messing around with the panorama mode. This is my old room. |
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| And this is my new one. |
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This is a horse.
This is me.
This is Elder McCarty.
This is a really cool picture of the Temple that I took.
These are my shiny shoes.
 I took one last picture of my old roommates before leaving the next day. Elder Farrell, Elder Stringham, and Elder Hurd. |
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