Can you believe that I have been away from home for almost two months now?  Time is just flying by!

Today we found out about transfers. I am still staying in Syracuse but I am moving. We are moving to an apartment even further out of our area so that the Spanish elders, who are moving into our apartment, can live in their area. I am also going to have a new companion, Elder Ross. I don't know anything about him yet as transfers are tomorrow.

Our mission is going to be split this July. Idaho and Star Valley, Wyoming will no longer be in our mission. The mission is going to be pretty small now and any missionaries that are in the cities that we are losing will be moving to the Idaho Pocatello mission. It's pretty crazy.

Nothing really miraculous has happened these past couple weeks. This area is filled with a high majority of members(there are 4 chapels in the small, less than 2 mile area). So we mostly teach inactive members. We do, however, have a baptism this Saturday which I am pretty excited for.

Hopefully in this next transfer we can make some progress with some of the people we have been working with. We have found some new investigators this week which we hope will turn out.

So, I'm running out of time. I didn't get to write about nearly as much as I wanted. Hopefully next week we will be able to stay longer so I can write more.

Love,
Elder Ervin

April 2, 2013

So things here have been pretty good. Not a lot has happened this week with Easter. Although a few interesting things did happen.

Last week we met a guy named Larry Scott. I don't know if you have ever heard of him but he's a famous bodybuilder. He was the first person to ever win Mr. America, Universe and Olympia. His wife said Mr. Olympia was started because the guy who started it wanted to see him compete again. He was a pretty cool guy, and even though he was old he was still super ripped! Apparently he was the first person in body builder history to have 20 inch biceps. His handshake was crazy strong. The coolest part though was when he said that all that(his awards, winning and titles) were nothing compared to being a member of the Church. It was one of the most amazing things I've heard. I mean this guy was Arnold before Arnold was Arnold and he said it was worthless compared to being LDS. Quite an eye opener.

At church on Sunday we were told by a Ward Mission Leader of a house that we should go visit. He said the he was a Fundamentalist and former polygamist from Colorado City. When we went over there yesterday we found out that the former part wasn't so former. One of the women was pretty nice and actually conversed with us but the other one was pretty rude. She wouldn't respond to our questions and kept telling us she wasn't interested even though we were just trying to make conversation. I thought it was a pretty funny experience. Polygamists living in my area. It's pretty exciting compared to what else goes on around here.

Other than those couple things, the work here has been pretty much the same as always. Giving lessons to people and what not. We have a couple baptisms scheduled for a few weeks from now. They are next transfer though so I may not be here. We will see when the time comes I guess. We have a few new investigators that we are going to start teaching so I'm excited for that.

That's about all I have to write about or at least all that I can remember. I didn't bring my journal with me today so I can't take stuff out of that.

Love,
Elder Ervin