4/9/12

Hey super awesome mom,

Thanks a ton for the package. it was awesome everything was great. the pictures were just what i wanted and that Alex cd you sent me. i have another one of his but that one is the one i like. the mormon message DVD you gave me was awesome. it has a great easter message on it that we used at some appointments last night. it was great. some people even cried. they are really helpful to use for dinner messages. oh and i loved isaac and ethans drawings. i put them on my wall. sounds like Easter and owens birthday was a blast. ours was pretty good. we had some investigators at church and some other less actives that havent been in a long time. this week has been good. i forgot to bring my old planner to email so i sort of forgot some of the stuff we did.

My new companion is Elder Jackman. He is a really good missionary. He is a former zone leader, so I guess I did something wrong and need to be baby sat. jk. lets see he loves: musicals, singing all the time, saturdays warrior, dancing like highschool musical, (he was an extra in high school musical), loves saying Sarene, and Loves laughing loudly at everything. On paper he sounds like my living nightmare but actually I get along with him very well. I think its due to the fact that he is a really good missionary and works hard. I have learned a lot from him so far.

So I realized that the warmer it gets here the weirder the people become. we tracted in to this house and a girl answered and had super hairy legs. people love to be "natural and free" here. last night we went over to visit a member who didnt answer their door, but their Muslim neighbors let us opened the door and let us in. they were 3 guys that were very nice. it was interesting to see their side of things and how they relate to us. they said that they expected us to swing by and visit every once in a while so we will.

Today was a pretty good pday. we had Elder Burton, Hales, Gowen, and Davis come down to spend the day. its was really fun, Burton, Hales, and Gowen all came out with me so it was cool. we checked out some of the stores in Ashland and it was pretty cool. some of the stores here are Awesome. one store had those Buckyballs that i wanted but they were like 30 bucks! that was rediculous. and they had a ton of books that i wanted to buy but they arent mission approved and i dont want to lug them around for the rest of the mission. i think that i will come back after the mission and buy them. oh but i did buy a bacon air freshener and bacon lip balm. i havent tried them yet. oh and at another ashland store i bought some prayer flags that are all over ashland. its part of the culture so i thought i should buy them.

hmmm oh last week also Elder Gamez and i corralled some dear in the field behind the institute building.

well anyways thats pretty much all the cool stuff that is going on right now.

love ya tons and thanks again for the package!

Love Elder Berg