Pics from Salem Transfer

Nate, Elder Thomas, and Carolyn

Nate, Elder Thomas, Matt and Melanie

Portland Temple

Dec 17th, 2012

Hey mom,

Thanks for your email. I just talked to President Young and he said that it was okay that i skype on sunday evening instead of Chirstmas. So I hope you got by box i sent home. it was basically just a ton of stuff that i cant really use right now and didnt have any more room to carry it around. so our direct address to where we live is 3601 Inland court #6 North Bend or 97459 just send my Christmas package here and any other mail send through the mission office. transfers have been pretty weird lately so i dont really know if i will be moved randomly or not.

so as an update on cool things going on 2 weeks ago when i didnt really have time to email you it was a pretty good week. i dont have my old planner with me so i cant really remember everything that was going on so i will just tell you the highlights. Carolyn came to a baptism to see what it would be like and is really excited for her own. We told her that Elder Thomas and I were both being transferred and she was devistated. She was crying a lot and wasn't happy that she was getting sister missionaries. I was really bummed to be going because her baptism was the 15th so i just barely missed it. Elder Thomas was able to make it because he was just moved up the road. we had a really good final goodbye lesson sunday evening and she came to church as well. also a less active part member family came to church for the first time in 10 years because we were leaving. it was great! they seemed to really enjoy it.

So a lot of changes have been going on in the mission. The Capitol zone that i was over split and they just called a lot more zone leaders. I am now serving in North Bend with Elder Covey over the Coos Bay Zone that goes from Florence to Brookings and over to Coquille. There are a lot less missionaries in this zone which is a lot easier to deal with. It rains everyday here. and not the misty rain like in salem its a down pour. Elder Covey and I white washed the area kinda so we are trying to figure everything out still. There is a lot of potential here which is exciting.

So I think one of the reasons why we were replaced by sisters was because our apartment wasnt a dump. President and Sister Young came over to our apartment and were really impressed with how nice and clean it was later in zone leader council he said "In the past 2 weeks i have been in 2 Celestial rooms. One was the Portland Temple and the other was Elder Berg and Thomas's Apartment." Every apartment that I have been in that was nice and clean we get kicked out and replaced by Sisters. That happened in Grants Pass too. Moral of the story: make sure your apartment is a dump so you don't have to turn it over to sisters.

Anyways we do have a baptism set up this weekend for Juan. It will be great because he is really excited to get baptized. We had dinner at the Pecks home which was great. I will probably be skyping there sunday. hopefully.

We have a pretty big ward here which is cool. A lot of less acives so we have quite a bit of work to do. We just had our ward Christmas Breakfast which was good.

But thats pretty much it for whats going on here. Im looking forward to talking to everyone on sunday because we are still new we are trying to figure everything out so keep skype on and i will try for 7 our time but maybe 6 depends. anyways gotta go love you