April 3rd letter

Elder Arko has been thrown into a new world! It's really different than his normal missionary days. He feels like he's back working as an office manager at the PT clinic in American Fork, except his dress code is slightly higher. A usual day goes as follows: They wake up and have studies/shower which is normal, then they go downstairs (since their apartment is right above the mission office, not the mission home) and start data entry for baptismal records, mailing, addressing or any other random office work that needs to be done. Then they are suppose to switch back at 5 or 5:30 to regular missionaries and go out proselyting. They have a couple of investigators that are promising.

Elder Arko is living with 5 elders now instead of just his companion. There are the two assistants that share the apartment and an Elder that is going home early so they just stuck him in the office to pass the remaining week and a half. It is a lot different.

Elder Arko hasn't celebrated Easter too much yet. The Elders get to go to conference tonight so Elder Arko is excited and is hoping they'll get a lot out of it.

One of the perks in the office is Elder Arko just came back after conference and can finish up his emailing! He really enjoyed the first session. He thought it was so awesome, and loved how President Monson joked with his wife a little :) it was super cute. He also thought the whole duty to God thing sounds awesome for young men and really liked a lot of the talks and how they were so geared towards families!

Here are a few pictures for us! Just a few of the office

Elder Arko made sure to take the last picture since he always hears complaints about never seeing his face!
Elder Arko really enjoyed the pictures from Patrick's farewell! From Elder Arko to his cousin, "Patrick I'm so proud of you, It's SO awesome you're going into the MTC soon! :) don't worry everyone is nervous. Just be sure to take your time and have fun while you're there, but still get a lot of work done because it is so easy to. You need to write me a letter so I have your address and I have a few things to let you know :) K?"

Okay everyone, Elder Arko hopes you have a GREAT conference/Easter weekend and he LOVES YOU ALL!!!