May 21, 2012 - Eldon, Missouri

I am no longer in Ozark. I have defiantly changed areas but it feel like I have changed planets because the two areas are so different. Here let me try and paint you a picture. I will just say that my description will not even do it justice.

My drive from transfer point to our apartment was with Brother McQuiney, McQuiney is an old angry dude who pretty much got mad at me the whole time we drove up telling me his life story and all the crazy things he has done. Once we got to the apartment we went to Kevi's grafiti shop. Kevi is a member who wants a Mormon posse. We were there helping out while he was air brushing tattoos onto people when chicken Charlie came in (chicken Charlie looks just like Santa but is his redneck twin who didn't get Christmas so instead he goes around being nice to people but he is shirtless and weighs 300 pounds and drives a super nice corvette). We then closed the shop for a while while we taught him a lesson in the graffiti shop with Charlie, Kevi and a few of his tagging buddies who are tattooed from head to toe, even their faces are covered. So I will just say again, I am not in Ozark anymore. I feel defiantly like a missionary here because we are here to help sinners. Jesus did not hang around righteous people he hung around sinners and the scum of the earth. That is exactly how I feel here. This is defiantly the Las Vegas of Missouri. We don't have a ward here but instead we have a branch with like 50 active members so here we are focusing on strengthening the members. We told the members that Sunday was stake conference and most of the members responded by saying, "sweet no church!" So we have a lot of work to do here. It will sure be interesting. Please pray for me be strong and help the people here.

Well my letters from here on out should be pretty interesting. Well lots of love and thanks for all the letters.