Letter 9/9/10

Dear people of the real world,

Did Grandpa put Elder Michael Stone? That way they can forward it to me, and I'm not sure if J.R. has my address out here, probably not, so if you could send it to him too like through a text that would be way cool! haha well yeah kirtland is pretty dang neat. The mall isn't actually here in St. Mary's it's about 40 minutes away in a town called Lima but its pronounced lime-a. weird I know. we have a car to drive so I'm yet to ride a bike, and I'm okay with that haha. Elder Hernandez is a good guy, and we get along pretty well and he teaches me quite a bit. He is weird in ways and all but what missionaries aren't? haha He is from small town kind of by lake elsinore. He has one year left so we will be companions for possibly two more transfers after this one.

On monday we went to the John Johnson farm in Hiram for a "zoned out" this was a 3 zone p-day where we had a tour of the johnson home. I didn't know that that was the place where Joseph was dragged out of the bed and tarred and feathered, it was so so oh i can't think of a good word to put here but i will just say weird, to stand and be in the same exact places that those horrible things happened and places where he recieved reveleation straight from Christ and other olden day prophets.

After that we just got to do some activities and play games with everyone else. It was very fun. (It was so great to play football! haha but my legs are still sore 3 days later! ;) ) after that was over, we headed home, but elder hernandez had to stay in cleveland becuase he is the district leader and there was a leadership training meeting. So i went on exchanges in a town called fremont. haha oh man that was an experience. monday night when I got there we went to visit these two older people who have a mental capacity of an 18 year old or so and the wife made me a yamaka! it was out of control haha but wow. this lady is crazy and she makes all the missionaries that she has over yamaka's like how Jesus did back in the bible and stuff when he was a kid I guess. Just about everyone in the whole mission know's about these two ha.

I finally found someone to fix my pants too so I'm excited to finally have pants that are long enough! yeah buddy! the members here though are pretty good for the most part, but there is only about 40-50 of them and the church building is like a normal one like we go to but cut into a third with no pews or fixed seats on the stand. the stand is only six inches up, the podium is on wheels, the sacrament table is just a normal table and the wooden walls on the stand can be taken off. oh yeah, lets not forget that there isn't a piano or a organ? it's just a really nice keyboard instead.

There isn't really that much else to say except that I'm meeting some really good guys and maybe I will send you their name or something when they go home so you can look them up on facebook for me cause some of these guys are really great and I would like to stay in touch with them. especially the ones who are almost done haha! Anyways, besides this you can give other people my e-mail and/or address so we can chat and such. Don't forget me, God never forgets you ;P

I Love you all, don't have too much fun with out me.

Love, Michael! ;)