Dear People,

     so week 2 has flown by. it is amazing how the speed picked up after Sunday. feels like just yesterday was a p day. this Sunday during sacrament meeting was absolutely hilarious, the district that left this Tuesday sung us a musical number. one guy apparently thought that he was the best singer ever so he was super loud. he was actually terrible at singing and he was so bad that literally every one was laughing. 2 people on the stand singing couldn't even handle it and had to walk off the stage and leave to launch. it was epic. the rest of the meeting was pointless because every one was laughing. one of my district members had a super vivid dream and me and him and elder Burbank are now writing the outline to a book. its super fun. elder Burbank is also teaching me and the same other elder how to do tai chi. it is super fun an relaxing and i am learning how to fight as well. so i might come home a master of tai chi :) Me and my companion are teaching a new investigator name junchi maeda, who doesn't believe in Jesus and god so it is rather difficult. he asked us what amen meant and we explained it. he then told us why he asked because apparently in japan men means noodles, so ramen means Chinese noodles. he thought it meant  some kinda of noodles and he thought it was hilarious that we would say amen at the end. i am learning a lot and reading like a mad man who can't read fast.  i am really going to miss my district once we all split because most of them rock my socks off. i got my flight plan this week, i am leaving to the airport at 3:30am and my first flight leaves at 5:50am and i have a layover in Denver. I will be making my call home at around 7 to 10, not sure exactly.  i am sending my pictures home on Monday so you can Leupold my entire mtc experience on FB. Well i cant think of anything else so have a good life and live life.

Elder Rasband.

Hello Utah,
     So first things first, why Kick a Poo? well that is the native Indian tribe around here and the literal spelling of the tribe name is Kickapoo, and is literally pronounced the same. there is a shopping mall called the Kickapoo Shopping center. Ya I laughed pretty hard when i saw that. So other fun thing is the streets here are made differently some how. every parking lot has some sort of different seal on it so no matter how slow, or how shallow your turn is you always have your tires yelling. its kinda funny. Well I went on exchanges this week with an elder Noyce (pronounced noi  se) and he is one of those geniuses. He has a life time scholarship to school and makes 2 grand ever semester, for just attending school. He did nano technology and made all sorts of amazing things with them. he designed a nano bot that would attach itself to a zygote of a mouse (a zygote is an egg) and change the genetic code of the mouse to make it florescent. He also designed a nano bot to make is so water could not form into a solid. he said with that last bot you could spread it on roads and it would break up all the ice and snow on the roads. Ya he was just one of these smart people. We met a 18 year old boy on our exchange named Tyler and he had his own apartment getting married to a 16 year old making 9 bucks and hour, and he was very proud of that amount, and he smoked, did drugs and has half his teeth rotting out. He said that he was waiting for god to slap him in the face so i used my favorite one liner to get his attention, "Hi." Funny enough that actually woke him up and he started asking questions and he showed a desire to change his ways. every single person we met on that exchange made fun of me for my lack looking old, oh well. The area we did the exchange in was called Branson, or as the locals call it Las Vegas for families.
Bad new is that Johnny is now ignoring us and is moving this Friday so we will not be able to teach him. We did get a new investigator through the members and she seems golden but we will see. Other than that things are going well. This last week flew by and it seems like my mission is already zooming by. Love all you,

Hello every one,
This week has been super cool, well actually cold would be a better description. With the drop in temperature and the humidity it seems super cold all the time now. It rained hard non stop for Saturday and Sunday  and there were tornado warnings for 50 miles south Ozark. I never knew that clouds could turn green, if they turn green it means tornadoes are approaching. We had dinner at a house during the best chance for a tornado, not for risk but because we had a dinner appointment. The family was the Peaks and their house is uber expensive and has so much wood work. Apparently this is the dream home to a guy who owned a lumber mill but who died shortly after and sold it to the peaks. the house is rated to stand during 280 mile an hour winds. The house was huge and super nice. They run a private school and they were extremely interested in the space center and they want to build one now, so that is fun. We found a new investigator named Johnny Holland, he is 18 just graduated and his dad died due to alcohol of some sort. After 1 visit he is committed to Baptism. He is a huge gamer and the only reason he did not come to church this Sunday is because Gears of War 3 came out this week and he had plans for months with his friend to play it. he also has a text message ring tone from Halo 3: ODST so me and him have allot in common, except he is large and looks like he works out. We are still working on a lot of investigators who are not letting their kids be baptized, super frustrating. Oh and in a few P days the Peaks are going to let us come over to their house and watch Best Two Years in their "barn," or more accurately put theater house, oh and their are going to pick us up in their limo they bought on Saturday :) Other than that things are going good, its already cold as previously stated but i am working on manning up. Love all y'all and have a good week
Love Elder Rasband