"Trying to Reason with the Hurricane Season"

Hey family!

Well im finally here! It is awesome! My companion is Elder Gorotta and he is a cool frenchman. He knows how to work hard and is defintitely pushin' me. He has already been such a help to my french...he also allows me to do a lot when we teach (more than i am actually comfortable with sometimes, haha but its good for me, but it always works out good). Elder Gorotta is so good with people! He is friends with everyone i swear! I'm so stoked to be with him, and he has an accent that is fun to make fun of....but anyways we are serving in Moule, a small town...and there are no worries about getting fat, 'cause we have to walk everywhere! The nearest bus is about 45 min walk, and the church is an hour and a half walk (with contacting and stuff), so I'm getting at least 5 miles of walking in a day. After emails we are gonna have to carry our groceries back (yikes). The people here are good...I say good not great because there is no doubt they are the nicest people ever...anyone here would invite you into their house and gladly talk to you for however long you want, but not " great" because its hard to find those that are willing to do anything with our message...but I know the Lord will lead us to those that will...the members are great...President Gradel had us over for dinner the other night and we have just started to get him helping with missionary work, we still need to get the other members to help more but Pres Gradel is great! He invited 6 friends over when we ate over that we were able to teach (k well i bore testimony of what my companion said haha, im not at a good enough french level yet, but i did do a sweet magic trick for entertainment)....crap i ran out of time, but ask me in your emails this week what else you want to know and ill tell ya....k i love everyone and am praying for everyone

Additional information gleaned from a response to emails included:

• The weather is so crazy! it will rain for about 10 minutes at a time so hard! harder than i have ever seen anyzhere else; and then it will just stop! its so hot too...and its winter! im sweating so much! but its good.


• Elder Garotta is the man he speaks really great english, he does pronounce some words wrong, and i love making fun of him when he does (you see he secretly wants to be american, and so he wants to speak perfect english)


• Man that is sweet 'bout Tuck! (Tuck had a touchdown catch last week) What a stud! I can't wait till we are all back home and playing some turkey bowl again...i wanna smoke him again.
• Island life is so awsome! its unbelievable how beatiful it is here! I wish we had more time to enjoy it though, its bad but im already looking forward to when i can come back and really enjoy it haha
• I think i have sort of got the hang of things, i still need to adjust to just how tiring missionary work is, the mornings are a little bit of a daze as of late cuz im so tired. but im sure ill get used to it.