Bits and Pieces from his email on 10/14/08

Well here i am in Viera, and still alive, it is definently different from my last area! But i love it already, i have met alot of the members here and they are awesome, there is WAY too much money here on the coast, but the members remain soo humble and kind! Alot of members work out on beach side at NASA or other really big industries. This ward is exactly like a Utah ward, it is very functional and well led, the bishop like i said is from idaho falls, he is awesome! I already love all of the members here. We live in Melbourne, which is actually like 5 miles south of our southern border, we live with the two melbourne elders, Viera is a very new area, only like 4 years old, and the ward here was formed last year when they built the brand new building! My new apartment is considerably worse, i got too spoiled with the nicest apartment in the mission last transfer, oh well, i feel like i am "roughin" it a little more now:-)

Although i really miss the families and investigators from my last area, i know that this is where i need to be and what i need to be doing! My companions name is elder Johnson, he only has like 4 months left in the mission, but it looks like we will be together for those four months, he is a great Elder and we work really good together, i am really excited to be serving with him in this area! It turns out that there is a spanish branch near here that hasnt had missionaries in like 6 months, and president and the aps didnt realize that when they called me here, and so we got clearence to work with them to, two nights ago we went and visited the branch president and his wife, and told them that i would be working with them in the spanish work, and she said, that that day in testimony meeting she told the small group that if they had faith that the lord would bring missionaries to help them, It is amazing how the lord works, i KNOW that this is his work!