September 28th letter

Elder Arko has been doing pretty well up in his new home of Norrland. He and his companion seem to be getting along quite well. Where Elder Loomis is from is an interesting story. His Dad was in the military, so he grew up in Virginia, Idaho, Panguitch (one of those weird small towns in Utah), Hawaii, and Germany. As of right now, his family is living in Virginia. He's a funny kid and Elder Arko is having a good time with him so far. Elder Loomis just hit his 3/4 mark so he's almost done. Elder Loomis is also the District Leader up there. The district consists of their area and Luleå which is the farthest mission North in Sweden. Coincidently, Elder Hanes (Elder Arko's MTC companion), is up there as well.

The branch up there has asked the Elders to do some service to help improve the church building. They've been painting and cutting the grass a little to give it a little face lift.

Elder Arko has been hearing a lot about the hunt coming up and is very jealous! The one thing that he has been missing A LOT is lacrosse. The weather there feels like it would when he started conditioning. He's looked around there, but there is NO lacrosse equipment at all! It's like trying to find ice skates in Jamaica.

He really wants some pictures of things that are going on at home. Speaking of pictures, here is one from him...it's Elder Loomis...