Dear Family,
Stake Conference was really good yesterday. Elder Donaldson gave an amazing talk, I wrote down notes in my study journal. A study journal is something I've been focusing on lately. It's really important to write down your thoughts and experiences as you have them, otherwise you tend to forget any spiritual impressions that you have. That's something that a lot of missionaries have not done very well, and regretted it, so I hope I don't make that mistake too much.
Unfortunately we didn't have anyone at church again. They like to skip out at the last minute here, which most of the time is because the holidays have been ending and everyone is traveling around. Hopefully with the school year having started again everything will settle down.
At the end of this week we're having a Zone Conference, which is mostly because Elder Donaldson is traveling around to the all the missions and seeing how they are making progress, and he's also spending some time with our new mission president to help him if he needs anything.
It's been a sunny week somehow, everyone always says the week is going to be rainy but then it turns out to be sunny. No one ever knows what's going on anymore. The wind seems to be more prevalent than ever, blowing storms in and then blowing them out as fast as they came. That's probably most of the reason why. Right now it's raining outside but I can guarantee in ten minutes it will stop and the sun will come out for an hour or two.
I think I'm at the stage in my mission now where I appreciate every little food in America that you can't get in England. Everything from Marie Callendars frozen pot pies to certain cereals, even Top Ramen, believe it or not. I have been wishing I had Top Ramen for the past few days. It's hard to get cheap food like that in England; it's easily the equivalent of a dollar for a pack of Top Ramen-style noodles, and it doesn't taste very good.
At least the chocolate is good here.
Did you know I've been looking around and I can't even find a photo shop here in Newton Aycliffe? It's such a small town they don't even have that. I might have to use a little photo printing booth somewhere in a grocery store, but the quality is not going to be the same. Still, I need to send photos home. Maybe sending an SD card so that I can send mine to you might be a good idea after all. What do you think?
A member wants to take us out to McDonalds today. The closest one is about a 30 minute drive. How funny is that? He must like it or something.
Until next week (hopefully a more exciting email)-
Love,
Elder Alsop
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