Austin's Missionary Journal

  Hey Everybody! Did you miss me? I'll have to make this quick because I had to read through two weeks worth  of  emails, and now I only have ten minutes left to write, so sorry if this email home isn't as organized and 'flowy' as all my other ones. Anyways, let's get to this vomit  of  information, alright? So yeah, I've been transferred, which is awesome! Though it isn't to the area that I was told originally. During the middle  of  transfers, I was told that one  of  the greenies  from  the mtc couldn't make the flight here because  of  an injury, so I'd be  in  Gravelly Lake area covering there until he healed and came. So now, I'm here  in  Gravelly Lake with Elder Alvarez. It's pretty great, considering we stay  in  a fetchin' mansion! ​ 10815 Greendale Dr Lakewood, WA 98499 There's the address, though our apartment  in  there isn't really fancy, but it's still pretty awesome, ...

  Woo! Week 11 is over, and heading into my last week as a trainee! This week seemed kind  of  fast, but kind  of  slow at the same time.,. It was pretty fast at the beginning, but that's mostly because this last Tuesday I went on exchanges to Gig Harbor. Seriously, I had a blast then. After spending more than two months out  in  the boonies, where every house has a 1/2 mile long driveway and everyone living out here is a hermit that wants to keep to themselves, going out to an actual suburb area was quite the change. It's laughable how when we drove into the city, I realized how much I missed the sight  of  buildings on every corner. Back  in  Key Center, you are constantly surrounded by trees, and wildlife, people with guns- woops, didn't mean for that one to come out. Heh heh... oh well, too lazy to delete. Anyways,  in  Gig Harbor, we went tracting for 5-7's, and after knocking all the houses on one street, I thought w...

  Ugh.... oh, wait... it's finally Monday? Yeesh, this week has just gone by so SLOOOOOOOOW! I don't know what it is, but I've found the time between Christmas and New Years is just terrible, or at least it was for me. It wasn't really that we've been lacking  in  our teaching pool as  of  late, even though that has been the case. I don't think it was that... though it may have been part  of  that. Lately I've been kind  of  tired and looking forward to falling asleep at the end  of  the day, but mainly I blame that on a few certain occurrences  from  New Year's Eve. First  of  all was the fact that I gave  in  to temptation to do a very bad idea, which is known as the prune juice challenge. Now, if anyone doesn't know what happens when you drink a lot  of  prune juice, ask someone who does, because I'm not going into detail about it. Basically, it was the grossest thing I've ever participated...