June 7th letter

Another fun filled week has gone by. The Elders were invited to a fair amount of houses including their Relief Society president, Bishop, and a family who lives far away. They had a lot of fun. The other office Elders were invited to a few families as well. You can imagine how it would be hard to have 4 missionaries over with a family, but it does happen sometimes. So, with their long adventure out to a member family they all piled in the van (Elder Arko, his companion, and Elder and Sister Lundquist, the office couple) and took off.

The adventurous part was when they got to the house. The family is very eccentric and eclectic (yes, Elder Arko looked up that word to make sure he was using it correctly). There were 4 of them and both the parents play instruments, including but not limited to: piano, harp, jews harp, and maybe a piccolo. It looked like a wooden recorder. Sadly, Elder Arko forgot to take any pictures while he was there, but on the way home the sunset was FANTASTICALLY red.

The picture doesn't do it justice, but Elder Arko is pretty sure there is a scientific reason why the sky is able to get so red there. He thinks it has something to do with how high latitude they are making the angle by which the sun rays hit the atmosphere and the time they get through to the clouds is quite a while meaning that the prism effect has a much better chance there (in general of course) than in other places. Who said missionaries don't think about anything but missionary work?

The Elders have been working hard with the members again to try and get the home teaching and missionary splits organized and functioning. They are all getting ready for Zone Conferences which will be going on the next 3 weeks. That means orders, trains, hotels and all that! YAY :) There ain't no party like an office party.

Things are starting to get a little more settled as people start getting the feel of how the office runs. It's fun for Elder Arko to be in the office with so much of his group around. Plus, a lot of his group members are going into those leadership positions so that is crazy for Elder Arko to see.

Today, Elder Arko successfully changed that headlight in one of the mission cars :) He felt pretty cool. Well, that's all for this week except for this picture of Elder Arko's companion, Elder Blaylock.