Racquetball in Eugene

June 3rd 2013

Hi Mom,

So things have been pretty good here in Eugene. We are starting to get use to the area and that pace of missionary work. It's still pretty crazy being here though. I feel like we have more curve balls thrown at us being in Eugene because we are so close to the mission office. We went on 2 different exchanges this week with Cottage Grove missionaries and some Eugene Spanish elders which was pretty good. They cut everyone's miles so we have to drive a lot less. So we have been trying out the bus. It's pretty fun though. So when I was on exchanges with spanish we got a phone call saying that a visa waiter had just got his visa and was flying out monday. So we had to pick him up because he would be with spanish till monday. Dropping everything and picking him up changed up our entire day so we ended up walking about 2 and a half hours to try and visit someone who wasn't there. we were able to take a bus that saved us some walking time to get back to our apartment. It was pretty fun to stay at their apartment though because we were in a trio for the day and they had the Chinese Elders staying with them. Elder Kwok is from Hong Kong and Richards is from Sandy. They were both super cool and Richards won The Price is Right. 

Yesterday was Stake conference for us and we had 2 visiting seventies which was awesome. Elder Erickson and Elder Schweitzer. They gave great talks and we had 3 different meetings with them. Then Yesterday we had an entire day full of tracting planned and as we were walking out the door to start we got a call saying that we needed to get an Elder who was going home within the next few days due to medical. So we had Elder Hill with us for a Sunday. But we just dropped him off at the mission office this morning.

The people here in Eugene are crazy! It's kinda like a huge dirty Ashland. This girl we are teaching came to our meeting at the institute wearing a white wig a dog collar and a halloween mickey mouse hat. Oh Eugene. And there are quite a few drunk homeless people sleeping all over the place.

So school is about to get out so the parties are really going to start up. We were knocking on this apartment complex and there was a party going on in the apartment across the small courtyard from where we were that seemed pretty crazy. This guy came up in a pirate costume with a ton on boose and knocked on the door. Elder Henrie looked at him and said "why are you dressed up in a pirate costume?" as soon as he said that the guy answered the door in the same pirate costume and said "Welcome to the house of gay pirates!" Pretty interesting life here. The sun has finally been coming out so out with the lawn chairs and beer pong tables. The first time I was ever offered to do a keg stand happened last week. I don't think the party life is for me. And I could never live in Eugene. Especially because my allergies are killing me! Even though I'm taking Zyrtec I feel like I'm going to die! 

This morning we played racket ball with the 1st councilor in our mission presidency. It was a lot of fun and was pretty crazy. I will try and send a picture!

Love Ya!

-Elder Berg